mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Paul Johnson

Chapter Five The Unregarded Prophet Now began the hardest, harshest period of Churchill’s life. He was lucky to have a safe seat where he was active, was much loved, and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Mimi Alford

Chapter Ten “I met someone,” I told the President in the winter of 1963. I said it in a teasing way but also with a note of pride, as I ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-30 | Author:Algeo, Matthew [Algeo, Matthew]

* * * 10 New York, New York, June 27–July 5, 1953 Harry’s private railcar, which was attached to the regular Philadelphia Express, arrived at Penn Station in New York ...

mobi |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:O'Reilly, Bill & Dugard, Martin [O'Reilly, Bill]

11 MAY 3, 1963 BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 1:00 P.M. “We’re going to walk, walk, walk. Freedom … Freedom … Freedom,” the protesters chant as they march out through the great oak ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:James W. Douglass

Acknowledgments I am deeply grateful to the friends who read and critiqued this work in progress: Bob and Janet Aldridge, Robert Aitken, Marya Barr, Karol Schulkin, Sandy Bishop, Rhea Miller, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Chris Matthews

CHAPTER TWELVE CHARISMA How does Jack get them girls to squeal that way? —Senator Herman Talmadge of Georgia Jack Kennedy’s singular personal appeal was recognized by Ken O’Donnell for the ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Robert A. Caro

14 Three Encounters AT ABOUT 4:30 A.M., while Johnson was sleeping, the autopsy was finally completed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, and the coffin was brought by that gray Navy ambulance ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:David Herbert Donald

Naming Rosecrans and Burnside was a shrewd move. Burnside, in particular, was a happy choice. In addition to having some military reputation from his expedition against Roanoke Island, he looked ...

mobi, azw, pdf |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Hugh Howard & Roger Straus

was ever his confidante, either.” He was variously described by trusted colleagues as “the most complicated human being I have ever known” and as possessed of a “thickly forested interior.” ...

mobi |eng | 1975-12-31 | Author:David Frost

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-03-24 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

This admonition to Short greatly overstated George Washington’s partisanship for France, but it did not overstate—or not by much—the general American feeling that the Jacobins were making European history, and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Robert Dallek

CHAPTER 12 Crisis Manager When I ran for the Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize—nor could any man ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Jon Meacham

THIRTY-SEVEN A DEEP, DARK, AND WIDESPREAD CONSPIRACY The designs of our Cataline are as real as they are romantic. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, on Aaron Burr’s western maneuvers JEFFERSON’S WINTER WAS BRIGHTENED ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Candice Millard

PART FOUR TORTURED FOR THE REPUBLIC • CHAPTER 16 • NEITHER DEATH NOR LIFE I love to believe that no heroic sacrifice is ever lost, that the characters of men ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Lincoln, Abraham

Leadership vs. Tyranny If a state, in one instance, and a county in another, should be equal in extent of territory, and equal in the number of people, wherein is ...