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The Impeachers by Brenda Wineapple
epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Brenda Wineapple

* * * — ALL SENATORS WERE to take the same oath that had been administered to Chief Justice Chase, but Indiana Democrat Thomas Hendricks objected to Benjamin Wade’s swearing-in. ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 25,2019 )
Mortality and Faith by David Horowitz
epub |eng | | Author:David Horowitz

V In the morning, when I prepare for the day ahead and shave the new-grown stubble from my cheeks, I often think of my father who has been gone these ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism May 22,2019 )
Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:John Guy

19 Assassination Two The day before Darnley’s assassination was one of the happiest Mary could remember. It was the feast of Quinquagesima: the Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning ...
( Category: Royalty May 21,2019 )
The Making of a Justice by John Paul Stevens
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:John Paul Stevens

It was also in 1992 that the Northwestern Law School established a professorship in my name. That action was especially gratifying because it was financed by my classmates. October Term ...
( Category: Political May 20,2019 )
Lincoln's Battle with God by Stephen Mansfield
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Stephen Mansfield

Lincoln’s first full day in the nation’s capital was a Sunday—February 24—and he already had an invitation to church. Senator William Seward, newly named as secretary of state, had invited ...
( Category: American Civil War May 19,2019 )
My Own Story (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Emmeline Pankhurst
epub |eng | | Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

III THE WOMEN’S REVOLUTION On February 16th we held a large meeting of welcome to a number of released prisoners who had served two and three months for the window-breaking ...
( Category: Women May 19,2019 )
Transformed by Remi Adeleke
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Remi Adeleke

Three weeks later I started all over with Class 251. And I was crushing everything again—except for the ocean swims. I passed drownproofing, which consisted of swimming, bobbing, and floating ...
( Category: Military May 19,2019 )
Kissinger on Kissinger by Winston Lord
epub |eng | | Author:Winston Lord

SEVEN Breakthrough and the Paris Accords The final agreement exceeded expectations and the calls of many critics. Ever since, two stubborn shibboleths have persisted: This pact was overdue because Nixon ...
( Category: Diplomacy May 19,2019 )
Emperor by Geoffrey Parker;
epub |eng | | Author:Geoffrey Parker;

THE EMPEROR STRIKES BACK ‘The arrival of the duke of Alba, with his Spaniards and the money has greatly raised our spirits,’ wrote a member of Charles’s entourage. ‘Now the ...
( Category: Royalty May 17,2019 )
Howard Stern Comes Again (9781501194313) by Stern Howard
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Stern, Howard

CHARLIZE THERON Charlize: I can’t smoke weed anymore. Howard: Me neither. Too paranoid? Charlize: Not paranoid. I just become so uninteresting. I don’t want to talk. I literally just switch ...
( Category: Rich & Famous May 17,2019 )
Menachem Begin by Daniel Gordis
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Daniel Gordis [Gordis, Daniel]

When Begin died in 1992, the Ethiopian Jewish community mourned him with a profound sense of loss. Rahamim Elazar, who later became the first Israeli of Ethiopian descent to become ...
( Category: Political May 17,2019 )
Nixon's Darkest Secrets by Don Fulsom
epub |eng | | Author:Don Fulsom

TWELVE WATERGATE: WHAT SECRETS WAS NIXON SEEKING? Early in the 1968 campaign, power-hungry, episodically nutty billionaire Howard Hughes—in a lucid moment and non-nuanced memo—stated his determination to elect a president ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 17,2019 )
The Making of the President 1964 by Theodore H. White
epub, mobi |eng | 1965-05-16 | Author:Theodore H. White

History can signal its changes to wise men without violence, but for those who prefer to ignore its message, it then raps with gunfire to call attention. The riots of ...
( Category: Elections May 17,2019 )
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White
epub |eng | 1961-05-16 | Author:Theodore H. White

Two simultaneous explosions now occurred: one in Chicago, Illinois, at the Blackstone Hotel; the second at the Newport Naval Station, Rhode Island, where Dwight D. Eisenhower was vacationing. The first ...
( Category: Elections May 17,2019 )
Lincoln's Men by Daniel Mark Epstein
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Mark Epstein

TOO LATE Had we but met in other days, Had we but loved in other ways, Another light and hope had shone On your life and my own. In sweet ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 17,2019 )

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