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The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order by David Levering Lewis
azw3 |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:David Levering Lewis [Lewis, David Levering]

CHAPTER 9 EXCEPTIONALISM AT WORK 1943 Detroit Riot reenacted, Willkie and team. Courtesy the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. To a Forty-Eighter descendant, the dividend of immigration was obvious ...
( Category: Americas October 17,2018 )
Eliza Hamilton by Tilar J. Mazzeo
epub |eng | | Author:Tilar J. Mazzeo

In December, with no more reports of the fever, her father relented. Their oldest daughter, nine-year-old Angelica, who was studying French in Albany, wished to stay with her grandparents and ...
( Category: Americas October 17,2018 )
Golden Handcuffs by Nina Burleigh
epub |eng | | Author:Nina Burleigh

PART FOUR * * * Melanija Knavs, The Third Mrs. Trump Donald’s third wife, like his first, hails from a Communist-era Slavic family that longed for the luxuries of the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 17,2018 )
Pure by Linda Kay Klein
epub |eng | | Author:Linda Kay Klein

* * * I. Specific reports vary. II. Jimmy Carter also famously left the Convention because of their views on women a few years later. III. Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers ...
( Category: Christian Living October 17,2018 )
Where You Go by Charlotte Pence & Mike Pence
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Charlotte Pence & Mike Pence

Chapter Fifteen Be the Reminder To think how little we actually know about the big picture at any given moment can be something so terrifying, yet when it really comes ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 17,2018 )
In the Hurricane's Eye by Nathaniel Philbrick
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

* * * • • • ACCORDING TO THE HESSIAN JAEGER captain Johann Ewald, the taking of the two redoubts came as a distressing surprise to Cornwallis’s officers. “Now people ...
( Category: Americas October 16,2018 )
An Unlikely Journey by Julian Castro
epub |eng | 2018-10-08 | Author:Julian Castro

Chapter Eight I knew a classmate at Stanford whose mom worked at the White House, and she suggested that students apply for a summer internship there. Joaquin and I filled ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 16,2018 )
Napoleon by Adam Zamoyski
epub |eng | 2018-10-08 | Author:Adam Zamoyski

28 Austerlitz ON 1 JANUARY 1805 Napoleon wrote to George III using the address ‘Monsieur mon frère’, customary between monarchs, proposing a new peace settlement based on a division of ...
( Category: Europe October 16,2018 )
Modern HERstory by Blair Imani & Tegan & Sara & Monique Le
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Blair Imani & Tegan & Sara & Monique Le

If a revolution aims to liberate those facing oppression and hardship, it must be inclusive of everyone facing oppression and hardship—not just the largest or most dominant groups among the ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 16,2018 )
Chalk by Joshua Rivkin
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Joshua Rivkin

* * * — In the late summer of 2012, more than five years since I lived in Houston and taught at the Menil, I returned. The sky was washed-out ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 16,2018 )
Moral Leadership for a Divided Age by David P. Gushee
epub |eng | 2018-08-02 | Author:David P. Gushee

HISTORICAL CONTEXT Mother Teresa’s homeland was a powder keg. The Balkan region has always included a broad range of religions and ethnicities united uncomfortably under foreign or contested rule. At ...
( Category: Religious Studies October 16,2018 )
Cracking the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams, 2019 Edition by Princeton Review
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Princeton Review

6. D If the elasticity of demand is less than 1, the demand is inelastic. Choices (A), (B), and (E) can be eliminated as they incorrectly define elasticity in terms ...
( Category: Macroeconomics October 16,2018 )
This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Busy Philipps

IS THIS IT (The Strokes) A few nights before I left for Wilmington, North Carolina, Craig and his brother Jeff and Emily and I went out to dinner at Islands, ...
( Category: Memoirs October 16,2018 )
Launching LBJ by Helen O'Donnell
epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Helen O'Donnell

“He has no choice, he has to make the presidency his own,” Kenny said to Bobby over lunch at their favorite haunt, Duke Zeibert’s, a restaurant much loved by the ...
( Category: Military October 16,2018 )
Racing to the Finish by Dale Earnhardt Jr
epub |eng | 2018-09-04 | Author:Dale Earnhardt Jr.

CHAPTER 6 HARD TRUTHS Saturday, July 6, 2016 Daytona International Speedway From the minute I first hit the racetrack for practice, I knew something wasn’t right. I’m reluctant to use ...
( Category: Miscellaneous October 16,2018 )

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