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Young Radicals by Jeremy McCarter
epub |eng | 2017-06-13 | Author:Jeremy McCarter

Eastman shares the letter with the newspapers. It appears on front pages around the country, where it is billed as the “first utterance from the President on the subject of ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
Letters of James Agee to Father Flye by James Agee
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:James Agee [Agee, James]

[Monks Farm] [Stockton, New Jersey] Wednesday 29 August [1939] Dear Father: This won’t or shouldn’t be much of a letter, but knowing I must be at work and that I ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 8,2018 )
In the Presence of My Enemies by Gracia Burnham & Dean Merrill
mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Gracia Burnham & Dean Merrill [Burnham, Gracia]

14 Wedding Time (October–Mid-November 2001) It was about this time that my ever alert husband, being mechanically inclined, discovered that his handcuffs didn’t stay shut anymore. Something had rusted through. ...
( Category: Worship & Devotion April 8,2018 )
Full Circle by Ellen Macarthur
epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Ellen Macarthur

Chapter Fifteen Nothing could have prepared me for the feeling I had as I walked up and on to the stage outside the Maritime Museum. There were literally thousands of ...
( Category: Memoirs April 8,2018 )
Rude by Katie Hopkins
epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:Katie Hopkins [Katie Hopkins]

1. ANGRY MAN WITH STRONG REGIONAL ACCENT Unbeatable. The angrier a person gets, the stronger their accent. So if they start raging at you in a strong, barely comprehensible Irish ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 8,2018 )
A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York by King Greg
epub |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:King, Greg [King, Greg]

The Mills mansion along the Hudson, entrance facade. White’s new building dominated a tranquil stretch of park, its sloping lawns dotted with classical statuary and banks of trees that screened ...
( Category: Americas April 8,2018 )
Felt by Mark Felt
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Felt

FOURTEEN “HOOVER IS DEAD” TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1972, began like any other day. I was up at 5:45 A.M. and ate breakfast while scanning Washington Post headlines so that I ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 8,2018 )
The King Who Had To Go by Phillips Adrian;
epub |eng | 2016-04-08 | Author:Phillips, Adrian; [Adrian Phillips]

NOTES 1. BBK G/6/23, Duke of Windsor draft memoirs, dated 15 June 1949 2. Chamberlain diary, 2 December 3. NA CAB 301/101, Col. Casten (?) report, 27 November 4. BBK ...
( Category: Europe April 8,2018 )
Julius Caesar by T.P. Wiseman
epub |eng | | Author:T.P. Wiseman

7 Disasters Caesar is convinced he cannot be safe in Rome if he leaves his army. Marcus Caelius Rufus, Roman senator, writing to Cicero in 51 BC77 In August 54 ...
( Category: Historical April 8,2018 )
Fallen Eagles by Norman Franks
epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:Norman Franks

* * * Captain Z. R. Miller CdG & Palme, 22 July 1922 Zenos Ramsey Miller was born in Pao Ting Fu, China, on 13 September 1896, of American parents ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent (Simon & Schuster America Collection) by Merry Robert W
epub |eng | 2009-10-14 | Author:Merry, Robert W. [Merry, Robert W.]

THOUGH STUNG BY the defeat, the president had reason to celebrate the congressional session just ended. Seldom in American history up to that time had any president dominated a congressional ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 8,2018 )
The Breakthrough by Gwen Ifill
mobi |eng | 2009-02-22 | Author:Gwen Ifill

IT IS NOT ENTIRELY shocking that sons and daughters follow their fathers and mothers into the family business. “Nobody questions the Ford children when they want to go into the ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 8,2018 )
Teddy Roosevelt in California: The Whistle Stop Tour That Changed America by Epting Chris
epub |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Epting, Chris [Epting, Chris]

Another of the splashy front-page accounts of Roosevelt’s adventure. The Chronicle continued its intense reporting. This piece ran in May 1903: “Roosevelt Pitches His Camp Near Bleak Sentinel Dome in ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 7,2018 )
The Good Governor by Matthew R. Walsh
epub |eng | 2017-05-22 | Author:Matthew R. Walsh

Gateway Opportunity Center sponsors and Tai Dam refugees, Des Moines, Iowa, 1975. Director Arzania Williams (pictured smoking) believed the state favored Asian refugees. He was quoted in the Washington Post, ...
( Category: Americas April 7,2018 )
Alexander Hamilton's Guide to Life by Jeff Wilser
epub |eng | 2016-09-20 | Author:Jeff Wilser

It gets worse. Ever the philosopher, Jefferson ponders: The circumstance of superior beauty, is thought worthy attention in the propagation of our horses, dogs, and other domestic animals; why not ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )

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