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His Excellency_George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
epub |eng | 2005-11-08 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis [Ellis, Joseph J.]

THIS SPECIES OF PROPERTY IN DECEMBER 1785, Washington received a letter calculated to focus his mind on another worrisome association even more damaging to his abiding public image than the ...
( Category: Historical September 6,2018 )
Watch Me_A Memoir by Anjelica Huston
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Anjelica Huston [Huston, Anjelica]

CHAPTER 21 Woody Allen wrote me a letter in October 1989. He didn’t tell me the name of the movie he was going to be making, but suggested that I ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 6,2018 )
Fully Alive_Discovering What Matters Most by Timothy Shriver
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Timothy Shriver [Shriver, Timothy]

ELEVEN Tough World “Maybe we should move to Washington,” Linda said one day, cracking open the door to a change of life. We thought about what we’d be leaving behind ...
( Category: Christian Living September 6,2018 )
The Browns of California by Miriam Pawel
epub |eng | | Author:Miriam Pawel

Jerry Brown and Linda Ronstadt, who met in 1971, were both public figures who valued their privacy. The couple did not often appear together at public events. But when Jerry ...
( Category: Americas September 5,2018 )
On the Other Side of Freedom by DeRay Mckesson
epub |eng | 2018-09-03 | Author:DeRay Mckesson

* * * — WHEN THOSE OF US who have come from marginalized communities and/or are engaged in the work of social justice are paving a way forward, we need ...
( Category: Sociology September 5,2018 )
The Shadow President by Michael D'Antonio
epub |eng | | Author:Michael D'Antonio

9 WHEN TRUMP CALLS Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. —Proverbs 27:2 On Wednesday, April 20, 2016, which was ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2018 )
Bastard Prince: Henry VIII's Lost Son by Beverley Murphy
epub |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Beverley Murphy [Murphy, Beverley]

Norfolk may well have been unwilling to endorse the plan, but he probably did not have to argue very hard to get Henry to agree. The situation in Ireland was ...
( Category: Historical September 4,2018 )
The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist by Lerman Antony;
epub |eng | | Author:Lerman, Antony; [Lerman, Antony]

Of course, I was not alone in my confusion, anxiety and anger. Many of my friends and acquaintances had similar feelings and it wasn’t long before we sought out each ...
( Category: World September 4,2018 )
Eisenhower by Carlo D'Este
epub |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:Carlo D'Este

Indeed, Patton was clearly still stunned over the airborne disaster and Eisenhower’s stinging criticism, and Bradley’s conclusion that he felt “certain that Patton believed that if he caused a ruckus ...
( Category: Military September 4,2018 )
The Reluctant Billionaire by Tom Quinn
epub |eng | 2018-09-02 | Author:Tom Quinn [Tom Quinn]

The army seems to have provided some outlet for the less serious side of the young earl and then the older duke – he always said he loved the camaraderie ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 3,2018 )
Angry Optimist by Lisa Rogak
epub |eng | | Author:Lisa Rogak

CHAPTER 9 WITH THE DAILY SHOW firmly established as a ratings success, Stewart started to branch out from his hosting and producing duties. In 2003, the clause in his Comedy ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 3,2018 )
Spymaster: My Life in the CIA by Finney Richard A. & Shackley Ted
epub |eng | 2006-09-29 | Author:Finney, Richard A. & Shackley, Ted [Finney, Richard A.]

13 R AIDS , A MBUSHES, AND B ATTLES In pursuit of our second mission of inflicting damage on enemy forces operating in, from, or through Laos, we employed raids, ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 3,2018 )
Heidegger: His Life and His Philosophy (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture) by Alain Badiou & Barbara Cassin
mobi |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Alain Badiou & Barbara Cassin [Badiou, Alain]

4. Planetary Prose in the German Provinces The fascinating thing about the Martin-Elfride correspondence is that it extends this matrix (the Little as the existential basis of the Great) to ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 3,2018 )
Locked In: The Will to Survive and the Resolve to Live by Victoria Arlen & Valentin Chmerkovskiy
epub |eng | 2018-08-28 | Author:Victoria Arlen & Valentin Chmerkovskiy [Arlen, Victoria & Chmerkovskiy, Valentin]

10 SPLASH! September 2012 to June 2013 “Take your mark . . .” BEEP! It’s September 1, 2012, and more than twenty thousand spectators are in the crowd that day ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2018 )
Trumpets from the Steep by Diana Cooper
epub |eng | 2018-04-05 | Author:Diana Cooper

The two great ships were forgotten by people in the street who looked unconcerned, and careless of the huge shadows cast. There was faith too in the inhabitants’ loyalty (true, ...
( Category: Europe August 31,2018 )

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