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All the Way by Joe Namath
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Namath

Chapter Eight Time to get up and stretch the legs, now featuring two artificial knees, a new hip, and an abnormal-looking left hamstring. That last injury was due to a ...
( Category: Rich & Famous May 9,2019 )
The Wizard of Sun City: The Strange True Story of Charles Hatfield, the Rainmaker Who Drowned a City's Dreams by Garry Jenkins
epub |eng | 2005-06-27 | Author:Garry Jenkins [Jenkins, Garry]

Hatfield’s name was on almost every tongue in San Diego yesterday. Many were inclined to jest when his operations were mentioned, but all agreed that things were coming his way. ...
( Category: American Revolution May 9,2019 )
Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution by Myron Magnet
epub |eng | 2019-05-09 | Author:Myron Magnet

A NOTE of icy scorn runs through Thomas’s opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 case in which the Court upheld affirmative-action admissions to the University of Michigan Law School. ...
( Category: Constitutions May 9,2019 )
Our Man by George Packer
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:George Packer

* * * — THE TRIP TO LONDON clarified in ever starker terms the reality of the U.S. relationship with our European NATO allies. The Europeans will not use NATO ...
( Category: Diplomacy May 9,2019 )
Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by Harold Holzer
epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Harold Holzer [Holzer, Harold]

THE 29TH PENNSYLVANIA FORMING LINE OF BATTLE ON CULP’S HILL AT 10 A.M., JULY 3. Most of the enemy’s projectiles passed overhead, the effect being to sweep all the open ...
( Category: American Civil War May 8,2019 )
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers by Brion McClanahan
mobi |eng | 2009-04-15 | Author:Brion McClanahan

Indivisible Liberty “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” —Benjamin Franklin, 1775. He took another job in a printing ...
( Category: American Revolution May 8,2019 )
Murphy's Law by Jack Murphy
epub |eng | 2019-04-23 | Author:Jack Murphy

PART II CHAPTER 10 Anything You Do Can Get You Killed, Including Doing Nothing I DIDN’T SEE ANY future for me in the army. We stood tall on the parade ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars May 7,2019 )
Second Most Powerful Man in the World : The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff (9780399584817) by O'Brien Phillips Payson
epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:O'Brien, Phillips Payson

CHAPTER 22 Atomic Bombs and Elections When the presidential train finally pulled into the siding by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on August 17, Washington, DC, was bathed in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 7,2019 )
The Beneficiary by Janny Scott
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Janny Scott

* * * — At the “cottage” in Maine, a shadow fell over the summer of 1941. War was raging in Europe and Asia. The United States would soon join. ...
( Category: Rich & Famous May 6,2019 )
Escaping the Khmer Rouge by Chileng Pa
epub |eng | 2017-02-08 | Author:Chileng Pa

8 A Poem for Grandmother This is dedicated to my beloved grandmother who made my life complete. Damned guerrilla Did you ever Have mercy on The Khmer people, Or did ...
( Category: Vietnam War May 6,2019 )
Unbecoming by Anuradha Bhagwati
epub |eng | | Author:Anuradha Bhagwati

CHAPTER 10 Unraveling In 2007, three years out of the Marines, I was in the mental health wing at the Manhattan VA Medical Center, crying in an empty room on ...
( Category: Military May 6,2019 )
What You Have Heard Is True by Carolyn Forché
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Carolyn Forché

* * * — “You wanted to know where I live. This is one place.” We had pulled in front of a wall. He turned the engine off and checked ...
( Category: Social Activists May 6,2019 )
Queen of the World: Elizabeth II: Sovereign and Stateswoman by Robert Hardman
epub |eng | 2019-01-01 | Author:Robert Hardman [Robert Hardman]

* * * Princess Elizabeth (centre) with Princess Margaret, sounding the whistle of the royal train, South Africa, 1947. * * * Princess Elizabeth, aged 20, during that 1947 tour ...
( Category: Women May 6,2019 )
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy
epub |eng | 2006-05-06 | Author:Adrian Goldsworthy [Goldsworthy, Adrian]

XIV REBELLION, DISASTER AND VENGEANCE ‘And then, since he had not anticipated anything, Sabinus panicked, and rushed here and there deploying the cohorts, but even this he did timidly and ...
( Category: Rome May 6,2019 )
The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

The removal of her rival – in the eyes of the world, if not in the affections of the King – should have ushered in the happiest period of Queen ...
( Category: Royalty May 4,2019 )

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