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Marshall Field's by Gayle Soucek
epub |eng | 2010-09-10 | Author:Gayle Soucek [Soucek, Gayle]

Marshall Field’s residence on Prairie Street was in a wealthy district that is now part of the National Register of Historic Places and a Chicago landmark. One of the other ...
( Category: United States March 5,2020 )
America's Sherlock Holmes by William R. Hunt
epub |eng | 2019-01-01 | Author:William R. Hunt [Hunt, William R.]

Chapter Nine Agents Provocateurs Burns now began to picture himself as a shield of capital. Edward Levinson “William J. Burns had proved himself to the men he called sons of ...
( Category: United States March 5,2020 )
Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol by William Rosenau
epub |eng | 2020-01-06 | Author:William Rosenau

* * * I. Rison’s wish would come true. He pled guilty to felony murder, bank robbery, and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conspiracy, and in exchange for his ...
( Category: Women in History March 5,2020 )
Mr. Speaker! by James Grant
epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:James Grant

Chapter 15 Great Plains Land Bubble REED WAS WORRYING about the 1888 elections even before he was officially in them. News that the hometown Republicans had selected him as their ...
( Category: Legislative Branch March 5,2020 )
The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson by Jefferson Thomas;
epub |eng | 2016-03-04 | Author:Jefferson, Thomas;

Mr. Adams accordingly executed 1000 bonds, for 1000 florins each, and deposited them in the hands of our bankers, with instructions, however, not to issue them until Congress should ratify ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 5,2020 )
Elite [30] Attila and the Nomad Hordes by David Nicolle
epub |eng | 1990-09-27 | Author:David Nicolle [Nicolle, David]

Their use of two-humped Bactrian camels suggests an important rôle for mobile mounted infantry while thousands of mercenary soldiers, sometimes paid with lengths of Chinese silk, were recruited from other ...
( Category: United States March 5,2020 )
Grit and Gold by Jean Johnson
epub |eng | | Author:Jean Johnson

We came to a bunch of willows growing thick and perhaps ten feet high. They were growing on level ground and the grove was perhaps fifty feet or more in ...
( Category: Mining March 5,2020 )
Belva Lockwood by Norgren Jill;
epub |eng | 2007-09-14 | Author:Norgren, Jill;

12 Lay Down Your Arms! War must be stripped of its gaudy attire, its so-called greatness and glory. Universal Peace Union, 1886 Lockwood’s scrappy defense of the Mormons stood in ...
( Category: Women in History March 5,2020 )
The Great War in America by Garrett Peck
epub |eng | 2018-10-28 | Author:Garrett Peck

Wilson in Europe The George Washington docked in Brest on December 13, where the docks were crowded with thousands of cheering French, and the city bedecked with red, white, and ...
( Category: American Civil War March 5,2020 )
Kenneth Helen Spencer of Kansas by Kenneth F. Crockett
epub |eng | 2019-02-03 | Author:Kenneth F. Crockett

A college picture of Charles Favor Spencer from his University of Kansas days. Kenneth, Harold, Charles Favor and Galen at a rare family gathering in1940. Clara devoted Sunday to the ...
( Category: Business March 5,2020 )
The Promise and the Dream by Margolick David
epub |eng | 2018-04-02 | Author:Margolick, David

As catastrophic as his brother’s death was for Kennedy, it liberated him still more. Because he’d experienced life at its most random and cruel and irrational, because he feared he ...
( Category: United States March 5,2020 )
Stalin's Scribe by Brian Boeck
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Boeck

TWENTY Upon the conclusion of the war, Sholokhov came under intense pressure to deliver the novel he had promised to Stalin. He boasted to journalists in Moscow in September 1945 ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 4,2020 )
Journal 1935–1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian
mobi |eng | 2000-06-01 | Author:Mihail Sebastian

( Category: United States March 4,2020 )
The Portable Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln
epub |eng | 1992-02-01 | Author:Abraham Lincoln [Lincoln, Abraham]

Resolved, That in furtherance of these principles we will use such constitutional and lawful means as shall seem best adapted to their accomplishment, and that we will support no man ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 4,2020 )
Clear It with Sid! by Michael Dorf
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Dorf

9 THREE YEARS OF THE CULTURE WARS June 1989. The two 8x10 glossy photographs, reproductions of recently exhibited works of art, lay side by side on the round, leather-inlaid conference ...
( Category: Legislative Branch March 4,2020 )

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