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Stronger Together by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Tim Kaine
epub |eng | | Author:Hillary Rodham Clinton & Tim Kaine

* * * 9. Ivo H. Daalder, “NATO in the 21st Century: What Purpose? What Missions?”, Brookings Institution (1999), p. 54, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/1999/4/nato-daalder/reportch3.pdf. 10. “Terrorist cell found in Hamburg where 9/11 ...
( Category: Political September 8,2016 )
Elizabeth and Michael by Donald Bogle
epub |eng | | Author:Donald Bogle

Chapter 12 * * * SOON BACK ON a demanding schedule, Michael traveled to New York for a tribute at the American Museum of Natural History. Then came the major ...
( Category: Rock September 6,2016 )
My First Life by Hugo Chavez
epub |eng | | Author:Hugo Chavez

10 Conspiring and Recruiting Gently flowing water – The Power Within You Sandinista victory in Nicaragua – Marx and Bolívar ‘About-Turn’ – First micro-cell – Winning over cadets Crisis theory ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2016 )
All Things Possible by Andrew M. Cuomo
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew M. Cuomo

People often ask me about the aftermath of my political and personal tribulations. The usual question is, “Did you change?” The better question, I tell them, is, “Did you grow?” ...
( Category: Leadership September 5,2016 )
Barbra Streisand by Neal Gabler
epub |eng | 2016-09-03 | Author:Neal Gabler

7 Shaygetz IT WAS about wish fulfillment—not only Barbra Streisand’s, but her fans’. That had always been the transaction between stars on the screen and the audience in their seats. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 4,2016 )
Trump Revealed by Michael Kranish & Marc Fisher
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Kranish & Marc Fisher

14 * * * Empire About thirteen hundred miles southeast of Moscow, in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, a gleaming thirty-three-story building rose ...
( Category: Elections August 24,2016 )
Double Ace by Robert Coram
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Coram

21 LEAVING CHINA Chennault’s genius for tactics and Scott’s genius for colorful leadership turned the Twenty-third into a fast-moving, nimble, and unpredictable combat organization that had an impact far out ...
( Category: World War II August 24,2016 )
A Life Observed by Devin Brown
epub |eng | 2013-07-23 | Author:Devin Brown

Idealism Soon Crumbles and Jack Moves to an Impersonal Theism When Jack abandoned realism, the belief that the physical world is all there is, and embraced idealism, the belief that ...
( Category: Religious August 22,2016 )
Roosevelt's Navy by James Tertius De Kay
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:James Tertius De Kay

Over half a century later, in 1973, British investigative reporter Colin Simpson discovered that the Germans had been right. He established that nearly the whole of the Lusitania’s cargo was ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 19,2016 )
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything by Rosa Brooks
epub |eng | | Author:Rosa Brooks

Born in Blood We can go further: maybe the apparent permanence and ubiquity of the nation-state is just a mirage. We take it for granted that states are (and ought ...
( Category: National & International Security August 19,2016 )
Churchill and Company by David Dilks
epub |eng | | Author:David Dilks [Dilks, David]

There were other objections to the proposal, which Eden asked his colleagues to reject.44 The Chiefs of Staff agreed with him, as did the War Cabinet. A happier fate awaited ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2016 )
The Free State of Jones and the Echo of the Black Horn by Thomas Jefferson Knight
epub |eng | 2016-06-20 | Author:Thomas Jefferson Knight

CHAPTER 9 Bold Ventures As soon as the officers of the company were sworn in, and each had pledged himself to fight and die before surrendering to any man, a ...
( Category: United States August 19,2016 )
Way of the Reaper by Nicholas Irving
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Irving

SIX WITHOUT REMORSE “IRV! LET GO of your junk, man. You’re out in public!” The rest of the forty-man 1st Platoon who heard Ramirez’s successful attempt to punk me laughed. ...
( Category: Afghan War August 19,2016 )
The New New Journalism by Robert Boynton
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Robert Boynton

ADRIAN NICOLE LEBLANC There were nights during the decade that Adrian Nicole LeBlanc reported Random Family—her 2002 saga of drugs, crime, life, and love in the South Bronx—that she’d grow ...
( Category: Journalists August 7,2016 )
Setting the World on Fire by Shelley Emling
epub |eng | 2016-02-17 | Author:Shelley Emling

Eight The Move to Rome Convinced that Catherine was God’s true agent on earth, the pope behaved as putty in her hands on that visit in 1376. She spoke sternly ...
( Category: Saints August 6,2016 )

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