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Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
epub |eng | 1993-03-01 | Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook [Cook, Blanche Wiesen]

OUT OF THE CRUCIBLE OF FDR’S ILLNESS, THE ROOSEVELTS’ lives were transformed once again. Eleanor considered Franklin’s triumph over his disability “a blessing in disguise.” Although many believe that his ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 27,2017 )
Diana: Story of a Princess by Tim Clayton & Phil Craig
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:Tim Clayton & Phil Craig [Clayton, Tim & Craig, Phil]

* * * James Hewitt had been trying to forget Diana and had not spoken to her for more than a year. He was still based in Germany when the ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
The Untold Story of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother by Lady Colin Campbell
epub |eng | 2013-10-30 | Author:Lady Colin Campbell [Campbell, Lady Colin]

Notes 1: Shawcross, p258 2: News Chronicle, 13 April, 1953 3: Michael Thornton 4: Wheeler-Bennett, p230 5: Harry Batterbee to Lord Stamfordham – 26 May 1927 – Royal Archives 6: ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )
Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver by Scott Stossel
epub |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:Scott Stossel [Stossel, Scott]

Shriver was forced to agree to scale back the military’s role significantly. Liberals also objected to the role Shriver proposed for private corporations in administering the Job Corps camps. But ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
Blood Royal: The Story of the Spencers and the Royals by John Pearson
epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:John Pearson [Pearson, John]

Chapter 9 Reform and After John Charles, third Earl Spencer (1782-1845) and Frederick, fourth Earl Spencer (1798-1857) Apart from his mother, almost everyone who came in contact with John Charles, ...
( Category: Europe September 27,2017 )
The Man Called Brown Condor by Thomas E. Simmons
epub |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Thomas E. Simmons

Chapter 16 Audience with the Emperor THE SUN BROKE THROUGH THE THINNING CLOUDS TO CHEERFULLY brighten the morning. John took it as a good omen on the day he was ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )
Priscilla by Nicholas Shakespeare
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Shakespeare

The Germans enforced most of these rules. Yvette Goodden was barely a month back in Paris when one morning at 5 a.m. the Gestapo knocked on her door to check ...
( Category: Military September 27,2017 )
Love & War by James Carville
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:James Carville

JAMES I WAS RIGHT ABOUT what I said that morning when the planes hit the twin towers: it did change everything. At least for a while. I didn’t know exactly ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 27,2017 )
Lincoln Unbound by Rich Lowry
epub |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:Rich Lowry

Chapter 5 “A Great Empire”: Lincoln’s Vision Realized I chant the new empire grander than any before . . . My sail-­ships and steam-­ships threading the archipelagoes, My stars and ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
Ghosts by Daylight by Janine di Giovanni
epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Janine di Giovanni

Then, and later, I felt nothing. I never talked about what happened in those places, but I wrote about them. I disagreed that reporters suffered from trauma; after all, I ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 27,2017 )
The Incredible Tito: Man of the Hour by Howard Fast
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Howard Fast

THE PARTISANS FIGHT—AND GROW FORTUNATELY, this piece of business came to light through an English captain, an officer attached to Mikhailovich by the British, who happened to be at Tito’s ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2017 )
Flight to Heaven by Dale Black
epub |eng | 2010-05-01 | Author:Dale Black [Black, Dale]

15 CELESTIAL PERFECTION While in heaven, I somehow realized that knowledge is flawed and did not seem to be of great significance. Truth is what prevails and has supremacy in ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )
Carry-on Baggage: Our Nonstop Flight by Bailey Thomas Cynthia Thomas Peter Short Rochelle Saunders Keith
epub |eng | 2013-09-16 | Author:Bailey Thomas, Cynthia,Thomas, Peter,Short, Rochelle,Saunders, Keith

CHAPTER VI Blackout Period Our Financial Loss Peter’s At Capacity Our wedding turned out to be one of the most trying, yet happiest times of my life. I had finally ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )
The Taliban Don't Wave by Robert Semrau
epub |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Robert Semrau

The ANA, as expected, took the next day off for admin issues, so just for fun, I went down to the interpreters' building and taught them how to play the ...
( Category: Military September 27,2017 )
First Ladies by Caroli Betty
epub |eng | 1987-09-27 | Author:Caroli, Betty

That tolerance for difference served Bess Truman well when the time came to introduce her successor to the White House. After giving Mamie Doud Eisenhower (1953–1961) the traditional tour, Bess ...
( Category: Americas September 27,2017 )

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