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Lincoln's Confidant by Temple Wayne C.; Davis Rodney O.; Wilson Douglas L
epub |eng | | Author:Temple, Wayne C.; Davis, Rodney O.; Wilson, Douglas L.

Returns to Journalism The ex–naval officer returned to the field of journalism where he became known as a versatile writer and a prominent California editor.80 “A large daily newspaper, radical ...
( Category: American Civil War June 16,2019 )
Formation by Ryan Leigh Dostie
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Ryan Leigh Dostie

One day a different Iraqi translator visits my guard tower. He’s not a regular at our camp, but he’s on loan from the First Armored Division, clearly higher ranking in ...
( Category: Iraq War June 15,2019 )
A Grander Vision by Sid Ryan
epub |eng | 2019-04-26 | Author:Sid Ryan

Chapter 5 AT HOME IN THE WORLD The labour movement has always had an international dimension: the injustices and inequities that unrestrained capitalism visits on workers in one country typically ...
( Category: Canadian June 15,2019 )
Slaves, Slaveholders, and a Kentucky Community's Struggle Toward Freedom by Leonard Elizabeth D
epub |eng | 2018-06-13 | Author:Leonard, Elizabeth D.

Anticipated and Unanticipated Costs of War Meanwhile, back in Washington, DC, as the war came to an end and federal occupation and Reconstruction began, the persistence, patience, unflinching courage, and ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 14,2019 )
60 Minutes And The Assassination of Werner Erhard: How America's top rated television show was used in an attempt to destroy a man who was making a difference by Self Jane
epub |eng | 2014-12-03 | Author:Self, Jane [Self, Jane]

27 Bartley. 28 Interview with Lynn Erhard, January 2, 1992. 29 Interview with Dorothy Rosenberg, December 30, 1991. 30 Interview with Pat Fry, February 22, 1992. 31 Interview with Werner ...
( Category: Television Performers June 14,2019 )
Nigger by Dick Gregory & Robert Lipsyte
epub |eng | 2019-06-10 | Author:Dick Gregory & Robert Lipsyte

* * * • • • “Dick, wake up now, the movie’s over.” “Wasn’t sleeping, baby.” I’m not about to tell her her I was starring in a little movie ...
( Category: African-American & Black June 13,2019 )
Leaving the Witness by Amber Scorah
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Amber Scorah

It’s not surprising that my salvation would come in the form of a man. After all, a man created me. A man died for my sins. Eight men at Watchtower ...
( Category: Jehovah's Witness June 12,2019 )
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense by Dan Abrams
epub |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Dan Abrams

Both Roosevelt and Barnes rented “war rooms” in the luxurious Onondaga Hotel. Although it had opened only five years earlier, in 1915 it expanded to five hundred rooms, in addition ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 12,2019 )
American Spirit by Taya Kyle
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Taya Kyle

One of the things that impressed me about the building was that it felt very much like a home, not a counseling center. There’s pizza in the kitchen and fun ...
( Category: United States June 11,2019 )
Ernesto by Andrew Feldman
epub |eng | 2019-05-27 | Author:Andrew Feldman

During the three weeks following the release of The Old Man and the Sea, eighty to ninety letters a day arrived at the Finca Vigía from high school kids, soldiers, ...
( Category: United States June 11,2019 )
Every Man a Hero by Ray Lambert
epub |eng | | Author:Ray Lambert

The Home Front Back home, people hunkered down for another winter of war. Certain things that would have seemed odd two years before were now routine—blackout curtains or shades on ...
( Category: World War II June 11,2019 )
The Messenger by Karl Evanzz
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Karl Evanzz [Evanzz, Karl]

The conflict that the FBI had hoped to exploit rapidly intensified a few days later. On July 3, a UPI reporter covering the Los Angeles courthouse filed this item: “Elijah ...
( Category: Political June 11,2019 )
The Kaiser by Virginia Cowles
epub |eng | 2018-12-11 | Author:Virginia Cowles [Cowles, Virginia]

Chapter 11. The German Fleet “He’s a Satan. You can hardly believe what a Satan he is!” exclaimed the Kaiser about Edward VII to a startled dinner party on March ...
( Category: World War I June 11,2019 )
Grace (Eventually) by Anne Lamott
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Anne Lamott

Near the Lagoon, 2004 It is autumn now, following a treacherous August, and I awoke this morning to find that the leaves in my heart have started changing color, from ...
( Category: Essays June 11,2019 )
Early Reagan by Anne Edwards
epub |eng | | Author:Anne Edwards

Reagan’s remaining scenes were given top priority for completion before his departure.* His major concern was money. In spite of Jack Warner’s patriotic bravado, players’ salaries were suspended the same ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 11,2019 )

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