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A Slave No More by David W. Blight
epub |eng | | Author:David W. Blight

In 1865 John Washington buried his infant son, Johnnie, in the free soil of the District of Columbia, and Wallace Turnage followed a Maryland regiment back to the now free ...
( Category: Americas April 6,2018 )
Two Days in June by Andrew Cohen
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Andrew Cohen [Cohen, Andrew]

Before the burning monk, there had been no reason to discuss Vietnam with Rusk that morning. Although the Buddhists had been protesting there for weeks, Kennedy had not thought the ...
( Category: Historical April 6,2018 )
Tell by Major Margaret Witt
epub |eng | | Author:Major Margaret Witt

Chapter 14 THE WILDERNESS If Grethe’s advice to Margie had a certain edge and ring to it, it was because she had, in her own time, met the Army and ...
( Category: LGBT April 6,2018 )
A First Class Temperament by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

Sources: Jonathan Daniels, Washington Quadrille, page 145; Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, page 226; New York Review of Books, April 15, 1982. 34. “Eleanor could be hard,” her close ...
( Category: Historical April 6,2018 )
Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis by Bose Mihir
epub |eng | 2016-12-17 | Author:Bose, Mihir [Bose, Mihir]

You are now going to hear a very important announcement issued by our leader, Subhas Chandra Bose. Our Leader Subhas Chandra Bose has issued the following statement which we would ...
( Category: Military April 6,2018 )
Richard the Lionheart: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Five The Crusade Continues “War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of war is ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 6,2018 )
Nixon, Volume III by Stephen E. Ambrose
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

* * * I. In the White House version, when Nixon complains that the bug in the DNC produced nothing, Colson replies, “Well, frankly we did,” followed by a pause ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 6,2018 )
Unbuttoned by Christopher Dummitt
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-04-06 | Author:Christopher Dummitt

10.2 Hugh MacLennan The novel makes clear that the great quest in contemporary Canada was to look unflinchingly within the self. “We’re like the man who tore down all the ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 6,2018 )
Free People, Free Markets by George Melloan
epub |eng | 2017-06-14 | Author:George Melloan

CHAPTER 13 Maggie and Deng Bartley and I had similar views on most things, including the importance of property rights and the sanctity of private contracts, principles we shared with ...
( Category: Historical April 6,2018 )
Mr Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-04 | Author:Bruce Catton

3. Generals on Trial Back in Washington there was General Halleck, and the general was worried. Worrying, he called for incompatibles, demanding in one breath a dashing pursuit and an ...
( Category: Americas April 6,2018 )
General Albert C. Wedemeyer by John J McLaughlin
epub |eng | | Author:John J McLaughlin

CHAPTER 12 HOW THE COMMUNISTS TOOK CHINA Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. —Mao Zedong On October 1, 1949, a beaming Mao Zedong and his second-in-command, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 6,2018 )
John Jay: Founding Father by Walter Stahr
epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Walter Stahr [Stahr, Walter]

Some Antifederalists had argued that treaties, like all other laws, should be made by the legislature, that is by Congress. Jay responded that these critics “seem not to consider that ...
( Category: Historical April 6,2018 )
Enlightened Vagabond by Matthieu Ricard
epub |eng | 2017-07-18 | Author:Matthieu Ricard

Meeting the 3rd Dodrupchen Once, while he was circumambulating stupas, Patrul was handed a letter from Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje, asking him to oversee the education of the young Dodrupchen ...
( Category: Buddhism April 6,2018 )
Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr by Carr James;
epub |eng | | Author:Carr, James;

NINE THEY SENT ME TO QUENTIN. WHEN I got there, we had a fullblown race war on our hands, and things were heading toward a showdown. I was immediately assigned ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 6,2018 )
Road to Königgrätz: Helmuth Von Moltke and the Austro-Prussian War 1866 by Barry Quintin
epub |eng | 2010-03-23 | Author:Barry, Quintin

( Category: Europe April 6,2018 )

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