mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

ETIQUETTE AND EMULATION “We are most delightfully situated,” Abigail explained to her sister. “The prospect around us is Beautiful in the highest degree, it is a mixture of sublime & ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-23 | Author:Edmund Morris

“A LARGE, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY.” Metropolitan magazine, TR’s main journalistic outlet from 1915 to 1918. (photo credit i20.1) The resultant twelve-chapter volume, entitled America and the World War, was issued ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2002-10-01 | Author:Edmund Morris

AT TWENTY MINUTES to three, Roosevelt bade farewell to everyone, put his silk hat back on, and left the Mayflower, to another twenty-one-gun salute. His preliminary diplomatic work was done. ...

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

ANOTHER DEATH SHOOK HIM on 7 December, and plunged the whole family into official mourning. Anna Roosevelt, her frail health broken by two years of humiliation, succumbed to diphtheria at ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-15 | Author:Ronald C White; Jr.

LINCOLN WAS NOT PREPARED to deal with the crisis of Fort Sumter at the beginning of his presidency. He had determined in Springfield to preserve the Union without war, and ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:David Herbert Donald

Naming Rosecrans and Burnside was a shrewd move. Burnside, in particular, was a happy choice. In addition to having some military reputation from his expedition against Roanoke Island, he looked ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-03-24 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

This admonition to Short greatly overstated George Washington’s partisanship for France, but it did not overstate—or not by much—the general American feeling that the Jacobins were making European history, and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Robert Dallek

CHAPTER 12 Crisis Manager When I ran for the Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize—nor could any man ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf | | 2010-12-01 | Author:George W. Bush

On Sunday morning, March 16, I boarded Air Force One and winged my way to the Azores Islands, a Portuguese territory about two thirds of the way from Washington to ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:David Remnick

The killing of Fred Hampton initiated the decline of the Black Panthers but became an emblematic moment in the history of race relations in Chicago. The murder thrust Bobby Rush, ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:John Ferling

Chapter 10 “Devoted to the paper and stockjobbing interest” Unbridled Partisan Warfare It is not likely that Jefferson thought the bank would be the final peg in Hamilton’s program. Washington, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Harlow Unger [Unger, Harlow]

Two weeks later, having put his papers in order and received word of his promotion to the London embassy, John Quincy set out for Paris to await Louisa and his ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Russ Baker [Baker, Russ]

It is a little-known fact that Ken Lay played a central role in the new relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia that developed in the 1970s.32 Lay did ...