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The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 by Robert Middlekauff
epub |eng | 1999-06-28 | Author:Robert Middlekauff [Middlekauff, Robert]

Page 217 churches of New England would soon need all the support they could get from other nonconforming bodies in England. He would not concede at first that in receiving ...
( Category: Regional U.S November 11,2017 )
Kennedy and Reagan by Scott Farris
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Scott Farris

Reagan would receive a similar response from the Soviets twenty-five years later when he proposed the Soviets work with the United States to codevelop Reagan’s proposed Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), ...
( Category: Historical November 10,2017 )
The Senecans by Peter Stothard
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Peter Stothard [STOTHARD, PETER]

21.7.14 Miss R turns a new page in her SENECA notepad. She also has a red-and-black-squared calendar for 1987 on her knee and a slim edition of ‘On Gifts’ in ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 10,2017 )
Bunny Mellon by Meryl Gordon
epub |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:Meryl Gordon

The arrangements were perfect. With Bunny, every party was always seamlessly organized. But as morning dawned on the wedding day, May 14, a last-minute and very unexpected problem developed. Eliza ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 10,2017 )
Dare Not Linger by Nelson Mandela
epub |eng | | Author:Nelson Mandela

CHAPTER TEN Reconciliation In a fleeting news clip that was broadcast to the world on 12 June 1964, the day he was to start serving his sentence, Nelson Mandela is ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 9,2017 )
Racing Back to Vietnam by John Pendergrass
epub |eng | 2017-08-25 | Author:John Pendergrass

FOURTEEN I CORPS MEDICAL SOCIETY 1971–1972 When the U.S. military divided the country of South Vietnam into four regions—or corps, as they were called—someone made the decision to use Roman ...
( Category: Military November 9,2017 )
Stand by Your Truth by Rickey Smiley
epub |eng | | Author:Rickey Smiley

* * * WITHOUT STEVE HARVEY, there probably wouldn’t be a Rickey Smiley Morning Show. I was already doing really well. I had appeared on Showtime at the Apollo; I ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 9,2017 )
Chasing the Amish Dream by Loren Beachy
epub |eng | 2014-11-09 | Author:Loren Beachy [Beachy, Loren]

PART III Spring 22 SCHOOL VISITATION I HATE TO break it to you,” teacher Mike Lambright, tongue-in-cheek, tells his Cloverleaf pupils, “but I guess we’llgo play a game of softball.” ...
( Category: Memoirs November 9,2017 )
Worn in New York by Emily Spivack
epub |eng | 2017-11-09 | Author:Emily Spivack

JANETTE BECKMAN I was working as a photographer for the music magazine Melody Maker when, in 1982, I heard about this thing called “hip-hop.” The first ever hip-hop tour was ...
( Category: Graphic Design November 9,2017 )
Out on a Limb by Shirley MacLaine
epub |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:Shirley MacLaine [Maclaine, Shirley]

Chapter 14 “Every new-born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but … its fresh existence is paid for by ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 9,2017 )
My Life with Cleopatra by Walter Wanger
epub |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Walter Wanger [Wanger, Walter]

BOOK IV CLEOPATRA AND CAESAR [1961–1962] SEPTEMBER 25, 1961 Today, finally, after years of work and headaches, we shot the first scene of Cleopatra. Since our starting date coincided with ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 9,2017 )
The Shining Sea by George C. Daughan
epub |eng | | Author:George C. Daughan [Daughan, George C.]

Captain David Porter (COURTESY OF THE NAVAL ACADEMY MUSEUM) The USS Essex (COURTESY OF THE PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM) David Glasgow Farragut at age thirty-eight (COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY) ...
( Category: Historical November 9,2017 )
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Jeremy Adelman [Adelman, Jeremy]

Albert in Recife, 1960. The project was vast. “Close range” and “considerable detail” to the history of fast-moving reform in five complex countries was not just ambitious. It reflected the ...
( Category: Economics November 9,2017 )
With Patience and Fortitude: A Memoir by Christine Quinn
epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Christine Quinn [Quinn, Christine]

CHAPTER 9 City Council I stayed with Tom as his chief of staff for nearly six years. It got to the point where I could have done the job with ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic November 9,2017 )
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (No Series) by David Talbot
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-05-08 | Author:David Talbot [Talbot, David]

5 DALLAS President Kennedy looked tired and somber as he stood at the lectern in the spacious State Department Auditorium on Halloween 1963. There were dark bags beneath his eyes ...
( Category: Americas November 9,2017 )

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