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Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-07-07 | Author:Larry Tye

Alarm about the dynamic between the battle-scarred senator and the neophyte president also was spreading abroad. “In his attitude toward the G.P.U. Senator, courageous General Eisenhower appears to be downright ...
( Category: History & Theory July 24,2020 )
Baseless by Nicholson Baker
epub |eng | 2020-07-20 | Author:Nicholson Baker

* * * — RICE IS SO IMPORTANT. One of the Korean War SUEDE intelligence intercepts, from February 22, 1952, says: A North Korean message of 22 February—possibly between two ...
( Category: Authors July 24,2020 )
Chasing the Light by Oliver Stone
epub |eng | 2020-07-20 | Author:Oliver Stone

“Is this it? Is this what it’s all about? Eating, drinking, snorting, fucking? Then what? You’re fifty and you got a bag for a belly and tits with hair on ...
( Category: Direction & Production July 24,2020 )
Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act by Nicholson Baker
epub |eng | 2020-07-20 | Author:Nicholson Baker

* * * — RICE IS SO IMPORTANT. One of the Korean War SUEDE intelligence intercepts, from February 22, 1952, says: A North Korean message of 22 February—possibly between two ...
( Category: Authors July 23,2020 )
Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change by John Lewis
epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:John Lewis [Lewis, John]

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ...
( Category: African-American Studies July 22,2020 )
Murder in the Midlands: Larry Gene Bell and the 28 Days of Terror that Shook South Carolina by Rita Y. Shuler
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-03-20 | Author:Rita Y. Shuler

View from Ricky Morgan’s window, showing his view of where Debra May was abducted. Courtesy of SLED. Photo chart of the first page of “Last Will and Testament,” ESDA product ...
( Category: Serial Killers July 22,2020 )
The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid by Pat Garrett
mobi |eng | 2007-02-15 | Author:Pat Garrett

Chapter XIV * Nabbed Again—Handwriting on the Wall—Another Escape—Defying the Sheriff—Kills a Texas Desperado —The Kid as a Financier—Promiscuous Horse and Cattle Stealing LEAVING LINCOLN AFTER his interview with Evans, ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals July 22,2020 )
The Letters, Volume 1 by Cicero
epub |eng | 2018-03-07 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

CII (F I, 5 b) TO P. LENTULUS SPINTHER (IN CILICIA) Rome (February) B.C. 56, ÆT. 50 What is being done and has been done here I imagine you know ...
( Category: Rome July 22,2020 )
Understanding Thomas Jefferson by E. M. Halliday
epub |eng | 2018-10-03 | Author:E. M. Halliday

( Category: Leadership July 21,2020 )
Carville's Cure by Pam Fessler
epub |eng | 2020-06-05 | Author:Pam Fessler

Chapter 14 Fighting for Freedom IT WOULD HAVE been difficult in May of 1946 to find a more appealing and heroic couple than Hans and Gertrude Hornbostel. Hans was sixty-five, ...
( Category: Infectious Disease July 21,2020 )
Meriwether Lewis by Gale Kira
epub |eng | 2015-07-15 | Author:Gale, Kira [Gale, Kira]

Fort Clatsop replica, Lewis and Clark National Historial Park, Astoria, Oregon (Photo by Rick Blond). On November 24th, the captains asked the members of the party to vote as to ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies July 21,2020 )
The Spy in Hitler's Inner Circle by Paul Paillole
epub |eng | 2016-03-18 | Author:Paul Paillole [Paillole, Paul]

General Gauché was responsible for interpreting the intelligence and transmitting it to High Command. They wouldn’t be let down. “… On August 23,158 the head of the Deuxième Bureau was ...
( Category: World War II July 21,2020 )
The Bohemians by Norman Ohler
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Norman Ohler

The description of this gruesome occurrence isn’t all. Adam and John write about the psychological consequences, and their so innocuously titled Open Letter to the Eastern Front leads directly into ...
( Category: World War II July 21,2020 )
Harry Hopkins by O'Sullivan Christopher D
epub |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:O'Sullivan, Christopher D.

An exhausted looking Hopkins looks on as President Roosevelt is about to cut into birthday cake while returning from the Casablanca Conference. At his right is his chief military adviser, ...
( Category: United States July 21,2020 )
Seattle Prohibition by Brad Holden
epub |eng | 2019-07-14 | Author:Brad Holden [Holden, Brad]

The Arcata. Courtesy of Coast Guard Museum Northwest. Pete Marinoff standing on his boat, Alice, which had just been captured by the Coast Guard in 1925. This is the only ...
( Category: Cities July 21,2020 )

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