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Born to Be King: Prince Charles on Planet Windsor by Catherine Mayer
epub |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Catherine Mayer [Mayer, Catherine]

CHAPTER 6 Helping and Hindering “You need to listen to each other. It’s respect,” says team leader David Tovey. A girl raises her head from the table and stares at ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 6,2020 )
Whitewash III by Harold Weisberg
epub |eng | 1966-12-31 | Author:Harold Weisberg

Printed in the United States of America TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1. The New Math and the New Morality 2. Mary Moorman Didn’t Make It! 3. Hugh Betzner, Jr., Elsie ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 5,2020 )
Mob Cop by Fred Pascente
epub |eng | 2015-08-14 | Author:Fred Pascente

19 SHAKESPEARE Chicago police districts are duly numbered as in any proper police department, but they are interchangeably referred to by name, usually borrowed from a nearby street, park, or ...
( Category: United States August 5,2020 )
We All Wore Stars: Memories of Anne Frank From Her Classmates by Theo Coster
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Theo Coster [Coster, Theo]

“In that house, I slept in a kind of closet under the floor. What I mean is, there was a closet in one of the rooms—an ordinary closet with a ...
( Category: United States August 5,2020 )
Court Lady and Country Wife by Lita-Rose Betcherman
epub |eng | 1927-08-14 | Author:Lita-Rose Betcherman [Betcherman Lita-Rose]

A less controversial subject was the beds, silver, and other household goods that Leicester had purchased in France for Penshurst and the London town house. French luxury goods were famous. ...
( Category: Women in History August 5,2020 )
Résistance by Agnes Humbert & Barbara Mellor
mobi |eng | 2010-09-30 | Author:Agnes Humbert & Barbara Mellor [Humbert, Agnes]

Krefeld, June 1943 Is it the intense heat that has caused our eyes to get bad again? Whatever the reason, at breakfast yesterday morning most of us were wearing dark ...
( Category: World War II August 5,2020 )
America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction by John Steinbeck
epub |eng | | Author:John Steinbeck

Ernie Pyle IT’S A HARD THING to write about a dead man who doesn’t seem dead to you. Ernie Pyle didn’t want to go back to the war. When he ...
( Category: Authors August 5,2020 )
Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream by Stanley A. Goldman
epub |eng | | Author:Stanley A. Goldman [Goldman, Stanley A.]

Masur’s Role in the Sending of Wallenberg On April 18, 1944, a year and a day before his own treacherous journey to meet Himmler, Masur sent a letter to Stockholm’s ...
( Category: Women in History August 5,2020 )
The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person by Kushner Harold S
epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Kushner, Harold S. [Kushner, Harold S.]

Job’s Plea for a Redeemer: Chapter 19 Job responds to Bildad in chapter 19 in an outburst that is more despairing than anything we have yet heard from him. This ...
( Category: Women & Judaism August 5,2020 )
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox: 1882–1940 by James MacGregor Burns
mobi |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:James MacGregor Burns [Burns, James MacGregor]

PART 4 The Lion at Bay FIFTEEN Court Packing: The Miscalculated Risk WAS IT AN OMEN? The famous Roosevelt luck seemed to forsake the President on the January day in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 4,2020 )
Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2019-11-15 | Author:Brian Kilmeade

ELEVEN Fort Defiance [Fannin] is an ill-fated man. —SAM HOUSTON TO THOMAS J. RUSK, MARCH 23, 1836 On Saturday, March 12, James Fannin, commander of Goliad, received General Sam Houston’s ...
( Category: United States August 3,2020 )
On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System -- With Original New Material on the Five Year Anniversary of the Financial Crisis by Henry M. Paulson
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Henry M. Paulson [Paulson, Henry M.]

CHAPTER 10 Monday, September 15, 2008 I woke up exhausted Monday morning after a few troubled hours of sleep, tormented by the increasing size of AIG’s problems and John Mack’s ...
( Category: Economic Policy August 3,2020 )
The Lion of the Senate by Nick Littlefield
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Littlefield

THE SEARCH FOR ONE “BIG IDEA” On October 16, in preparation for the pending budget impasse, Kennedy invited several political consultants to his home to discuss the Democratic strategy. (The ...
( Category: Legislative Branch August 3,2020 )
Robert Kennedy by Evan Thomas
epub |eng | | Author:Evan Thomas

CHAPTER 14 WORN IN OCTOBER 1963, Robert Kennedy reversed himself again and gave the FBI authority to wiretap Martin Luther King. Kennedy’s signature became a hunting license for J. Edgar ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 3,2020 )
Robert Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas
azw3 |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Evan Thomas [Thomas, Evan]

CHAPTER 14 WORN IN OCTOBER 1963, Robert Kennedy reversed himself again and gave the FBI authority to wiretap Martin Luther King. Kennedy’s signature became a hunting license for J. Edgar ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 3,2020 )

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