epub |eng | 2019-11-26 | Author:Edward J. Larson

Book III Working Together and Apart Six Rendezvous in Philadelphia WITH CIVIC BOOSTERS INTENT on turning Philadelphia into the commercial, financial, and perhaps political capital of the newly independent states, ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-04 | Author:Alexis Coe

* * * As an adult, Washington had often proved to be a negligent son, and the busy spring and summer of 1789 were no exception. By the time Betty ...

epub |eng | 2008-04-28 | Author:Joseph E. Persico

Chapter 25 “CLOSE TO BEING A WIFE” THERE WAS NEVER A COMPLETE BREAK between Franklin and Lucy. Given distance and long separations, the signal might become faint at times, but ...

epub |eng | | Author:David McCullough

3 That winter in New York was the busiest and possibly the happiest time Theodore had ever known. Even the most frenetic days at Harvard had never been quite so ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:Edmund Morris [Morris, Edmund]

On 25 October 1892, two days before Roosevelt’s thirty-fourth birthday, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison died, adding a final touch of doom to the moribund Republican campaign. The little general had not ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2009-01-09 | Author:John Milton Cooper, Jr. [Cooper, Milton John]

On November 7, when the returns came in, Wilson thought he might have to implement the plan. On election day, he and Edith drove to Princeton, where he voted once ...

epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Robert Dallek [Dallek, Robert]

Nixon used his address to speak directly to the Soviets. “We expect you to help your allies,” he said, “and you cannot expect us to do other than to continue ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-11-22 | Author:Robert Dallek

A to presidency of (1970), 231–33, ABC, 166, 210–11, 262, 369, 456 234, 235, 237, 238, 411, 510, Abrams, Creighton, 121, 126, 186, 515; military coup encouraged 193, 320, 388 ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Joshua Zeitz

CHAPTER 13 Breadwinners The house that Amasa Stone built for his daughter and son-in-law on Euclid Avenue was a lasting monument to his family’s wealth. Fashioned out of sandstone, it ...

epub |eng | 2004-09-13 | Author:Kitty Kelley [Kelley, Kitty]

CHAPTER NINETEEN George Herbert Walker Bush wanted the White House more than anything else in the world. “I mean, like, hasn’t, uh, everybody dreamed about becoming President someday?” he asked ...

epub |eng | 2009-05-23 | Author:Douglas Brinkley [Brinkley, Douglas]

Warden Guy Bradley was murdered in Florida for trying to protect bird rookeries from plume hunters. Warden Guy Bradley. (Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The National Association of ...

epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Ronald C. White, Jr. [White, Ronald C.]

A People’s Contest / 419 Elmer Ellsworth, almost like a son to Abraham Lincoln, was the first Union officer to die in the Civil War. This illustration depicts the deed ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Douglas Brinkley

Warden Guy Bradley was murdered in Florida for trying to protect bird rookeries from plume hunters. Warden Guy Bradley. (Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The National Association of ...

mobi, epub | | 2004-12-13 | Author:Bill Clinton

The inauguration and an inaugural ball, January 20, 1993 Al Gore and I with the cabinet: (standing, from left) Madeleine Albright, Mack McLarty, Mickey Kantor, Laura Tyson, Leon Panetta, Carol ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Michael Korda

Inaction, overwhelming responsibilities for which he was unsuited, and some doubt about what to do next were certainly part of the problem, but worse was to come. Up until then ...