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Strong Boy: The Life and Times of John L. Sullivan, America's First Sports Hero by Christopher Klein
epub |eng | 2013-10-04 | Author:Christopher Klein

The measure of any fighter is as black-and-white as the printed pages in the boxing record books: the wins, the losses, the knockouts, the opponents. Scan the bout-by-bout listings for ...
( Category: United States March 24,2020 )
A Mayor's Life by David N. Dinkins
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:David N. Dinkins [Dinkins, David N.]

Photo Section My mother, Sally Dinkins, as a young woman. My father, Bill Dinkins Jr. (center), with Les Hayling. Trenton Central High School, 1944. I fought my way into the ...
( Category: United States March 24,2020 )
Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History by Tim Grove
epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Tim Grove [Tim Grove]

11. You Can’t Write My History History is written by the winners, they say. But it is often the losers who care more about it. —Carolyn Gilman “You cannot write ...
( Category: United States March 24,2020 )
Young Thurgood by Larry S. Gibson
epub |eng | 2012-12-09 | Author:Larry S. Gibson

After reviewing Pearson's letter, Marshall drafted a letter on Murray's behalf to the University of Maryland's Board of Regents: On January 24, 1935, pursuant to and in accordance with the ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 24,2020 )
William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles by Catherine Mulholland
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Catherine Mulholland

THE CHIEF TILTS WITH HARRIMAN Five days before the election, on December 1, the McNamara brothers confessed to bombing the Times building. Establishment figures breathed more easily, but Harriman’s followers ...
( Category: Environmental March 23,2020 )
Behind the Urals by John Scott
epub |eng | | Author:John Scott

PART SIX. The Battle of Iron and Steel I During the early thirties the main energies of the Soviet Union went into construction. New plants, mines, whole industries, sprang up ...
( Category: United States March 23,2020 )
A Sense of the World by Jason Roberts
epub |eng | | Author:Jason Roberts

YOUNG JAMES WOULD remember the next year and a half only as a blur, “crammed with geography, astronomy, algebra, geometry, navigation, et cetera.” The Exeter apothecary shop was a memory. ...
( Category: Great Britain March 23,2020 )
The Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis
epub |eng | | Author:Jefferson Davis [Davis, Jefferson]

During the night batteries were put in position to open on the town at 4 AM. At daybreak the action was to begin on the left, to be immediately followed ...
( Category: American Civil War March 23,2020 )
FINDING Betty Crocker by Susan Marks
epub |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:Susan Marks

Betty Crocker’s Picture Cooky Book (1948) served as a prototype for Big Red’s cookie section. All You Have to Do Big Red is not just for dessert. Every major recipe ...
( Category: Women in History March 23,2020 )
Janet and Jackie by Jan Pottker
epub |eng | 2019-01-08 | Author:Jan Pottker

( Category: Rich & Famous March 23,2020 )
Moshe Dayan by Mordechai Bar-On
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Mordechai Bar-On

10 The Six Day War ON MAY 15, 1967, the nineteenth anniversary of Israel’s independence, ominous news interrupted preparations for a festive parade in Jerusalem. In violation of the agreements ...
( Category: United States March 23,2020 )
The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd by Jeffery S. King
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffery S. King

Since Miller and Nash were friendly, the FBI showed pictures of “Moore” (Miller’s alias) to his associates and neighbors, who identified him as Miller. They had thought he was “a ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 23,2020 )
The President and the Apprentice by Irwin F. Gellman
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Irwin F. Gellman

What about Hells Canyon? The proposal to dam the Snake River at Hells Canyon, near the Oregon-Idaho border, had been controversial throughout the 1950s for both fiscal and environmental reasons. ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 23,2020 )
Wrestling With His Angel by Sidney Blumenthal
epub |eng | | Author:Sidney Blumenthal

CHAPTER FOURTEEN A SELF-EVIDENT LIE Douglas believed his best-laid plans would gain him every prize. He would win the favor of all parts of the Democratic Party, sail his bill ...
( Category: American Civil War March 22,2020 )
The Heart of Everything That Is by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

29 Here Be Monsters Col. Carrington and his men pushed off from Fort Laramie on June 17, 1866, the day before the peace conference formally ended. The conference was “a ...
( Category: Native American & Aboriginal March 22,2020 )

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