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The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch by Miles Harvey
epub |eng | 2020-05-11 | Author:Miles Harvey

Eighteen In which the King of Earth and Heaven runs for elective office Beaver Island is a very handsome spot.…As it rises before you with its shores clad with green ...
( Category: Religious July 16,2020 )
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump;
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2020-07-13 | Author:Mary L. Trump;

* * * Eight months before the gift of underwear, Donald and Ivana were married at Marble Collegiate Church and held their reception at the 21 Club. Mom, Fritz, and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 14,2020 )
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2: The Defining Years, 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
epub |eng | 2000-05-31 | Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook [Cook, Blanche Wiesen]

Dewson was particularly disappointed that her effort to get her rainbow flyers filled with New Deal information into every neighborhood was slighted. Like ER, Dewson wanted no votes taken for ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 11,2020 )
Glorious War: The Civil War Adventures of George Armstrong Custer by Thom Hatch
epub |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:Thom Hatch [Hatch, Thom]

Fifteen Culpeper Civil War officers were expected to motivate and inspire their troops under fire by example—bravery was contagious. George Armstrong Custer, however, elevated that responsibility to a higher level. ...
( Category: American Civil War July 11,2020 )
The Ladies Gallery by Irene Vilar
epub |eng | 1996-07-14 | Author:Irene Vilar [Vilar, Irene]

“Tell me how it happened,” the policeman asks me while he leans over some papers on the desk. “My brother Cheito got married and after the wedding …” “What happened ...
( Category: Suicide July 11,2020 )
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Roger Knight
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Roger Knight [Knight, Roger]

21 Separation 8 November 1800–March 1801 I want neither nursing, or attention, And had you come here, I should not have gone on Shore, Nor would you have come afloat. ...
( Category: Military July 11,2020 )
Kentucky's Bluegrass Music by James C. Claypool
epub |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:James C. Claypool

Shown here is a photograph of J. D. Crowe and the New South, a group Crowe formed in 1974. From left to right are Jimmy Gaudreau, Mike Gregory, Bobby Slone, ...
( Category: Country & Folk July 10,2020 )
Demagogue by Larry Tye
epub |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 10,2020 )
Bamberger's: New Jersey's Greatest Store (Landmarks) by Lisicky Michael J
epub |eng | 2016-11-13 | Author:Lisicky, Michael J. [Lisicky, Michael J.]

A February 1962 newspaper advertisement proudly promotes the downtown Newark store with its nine selling floors, two hundred departments and two-level basement store. By the early 1960s, Bamberger’s Newark store ...
( Category: United States July 10,2020 )
Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr
epub, mobi |eng | 2020-04-20 | Author:Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

This is Baldwin’s revolutionary act: to shift or invert the “white man’s burden.” The problem is not us. Instead Americans must understand as best we can, because our lives depend ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism July 9,2020 )
Drug Lord: A True Story ; The Life & Death of a Mexican Kingpin by Terrence E. Poppa & Charles Bowden
epub |eng | 2011-04-14 | Author:Terrence E. Poppa & Charles Bowden [Poppa, Terrence E. & Bowden, Charles]

[ 16 ] SEARCH AND RESCUE Marco and Becky knew the Lomas de Arena river crossing like the back of their hands. A relatively safe route some fifty miles upstream ...
( Category: United States July 9,2020 )
Dewey Defeats Truman by A. J. Baime
epub |eng | 2020-07-07 | Author:A. J. Baime

* * * On the morning of September 17, the Truman Special crossed into enemy territory. Like most heavily agricultural states, Iowa was firmly Republican. The state had gone to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 9,2020 )
City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara by Brad Gooch
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Brad Gooch [Gooch, Brad]

Photo section 2 At The Club, with Lucia Dlugoszewski, Joe LeSueur, Mike Kanemitsu Ronald Bladen, and Golda Lewis, March 1959 the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah With Franz Kline at ...
( Category: Authors July 9,2020 )
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1 by Lemay J. A. Leo;
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Lemay, J. A. Leo;

A DISSERTATION ON LIBERTY AND NECESSITY In February 1724/5, the nineteen-year-old Franklin set in type the third edition of William Wollaston’s Religion of Nature Delineated.18 “Some of his Reasonings not ...
( Category: United States July 9,2020 )
Shirer, William L. - Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer William L
epub |eng | 1960-01-02 | Author:Shirer, William L. [Shirer, William L.]

In Berlin too a foreign observer could watch the way the press, under Goebbels’ expert direction, was swindling the gullible German people. For six years, since the Nazi “co-ordination” of ...
( Category: World War II July 8,2020 )

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