Leaders & Notable People
epub |eng | 2016-03-31 | Author:Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Within a few weeks of his return, McCarthy had a very narrow escape. In late August, he led a dive-bombing mission on a marshalling yard. During the dive, he spotted ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Brinkley-Rogers

Chapter 15 WHAT IS MY JOY? Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain —Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Sonnet ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-25 | Author:Brion McClanahan

THE NIXON SHOCK Following World War II, the United States and its industrial Western allies had signed an agreement known as Bretton-Woods. It created the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:Cleve Jones

Our next opportunity to take the streets was only weeks away: a referendum challenging a gay rights bill that had been enacted in Wichita, Kansas. The election would be on ...
( Category: Social Activists June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Greg Mitchell

Later that day Kennedy met with his United Nations ambassador, Adlai Stevenson, who had just returned from meeting with European leaders. Stevenson reported that nearly everyone privately opposed the reunification ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Riley Banks-Snyder & Lisa Velthouse

CHAPTER 16 A DESPERATE Need Mom and I got as comfortable as possible in the two chairs situated across from the headmistress and her desk. It was a typical office: ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 21,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-05-08 | Author:Patrick J. Buchanan

On January 20, 1971, at midpoint in his first term, Nixon wrote a memo to Haldeman showing his frustration, anger, and indignation at what I had written in “Neither Fish ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jeff Guinn

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX CONSEQUENCES Jones’s soft public words aside, the Gang of Eight defections left him determined to exert even more control over his followers. That kind of betrayal wouldn’t happen ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Damien Lewis [Lewis, Damien]

Robert couldn’t wait. As soon as their aircraft had landed and come to a standstill they were surrounded by a sea of familiar faces. First to greet Robert and Antis ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-12 | Author:Mary Jennings Hegar

SIX Reporting to the 129th Rescue Squadron at Moffett Federal Airfield in Silicon Valley was the beginning of the happiest part of my entire career. I was worried that I’d ...
( Category: World June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:Justin Dillon

ONE MORE CIRCUS: APPROVAL Approval is social dopamine. It is the elation we feel from the endorphin rush that occurs when we post a picture that gets multiple hearts, likes, ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-01 | Author:Rebekah Gregory [Gregory with Anthony Flacco, Rebekah]

My life had been quiet before the attacks. Nothing in my past prepared me to be on the public stage. While I was still in the hospital, I didn’t realize ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jefferson Davis [Davis, Jefferson]

I will now make the promised extracts from reminiscences of Colonel (then Captain) Lay, which were sent to a friend, and handed to me for my use. The paper bears ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-20 | Author:Edward McClelland

Chapter 9 DEFEAT W H I L E O B A M A ’ S P A T H T O P O W E R had gone through Columbia ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Anne Somerset

For the past fifteen years or so, the entire Hill family had benefited from Sarah’s kindness. When the Duke of Gloucester’s death had led to Alice Hill losing her job ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 21,2017 )