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Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy: A Memoir by Christopher R. Hill
epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Christopher R. Hill [Hill, Christopher R.]

15 PLASTIC TULIPS I slipped back down the elevator, then through the long corridors to a garage where I got into an embassy black Ford Crown Victoria and headed to ...
( Category: National October 27,2014 )
On Wings Of Eagles by Ken Follett
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Ken Follett [Follett, Ken]

Ross Perot: until this moment, life had been good to him. Perot’s parents: he had his father’s love of jokes, his mother’s iron will. Bull Simons. ABOVE with Lucille. BELOW, ...
( Category: United States October 27,2014 )
Naked in the Promised Land by Lillian Faderman
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-04-01 | Author:Lillian Faderman

"But ... doesn't she yell at you to come home when you phone her?" I remembered my own telephone booth calls to my hysterical mother. "I only phoned once, when ...
( Category: LGBT October 27,2014 )
Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power by Rosenfeld Seth
epub |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Rosenfeld, Seth

24 A Key Activist Mario and Suzanne Savio loaded their seventeen-month-old son, Stefan, and their bags into their secondhand station wagon and drove away from Berkeley. Savio had been struggling ...
( Category: State & Local October 27,2014 )
1941 by Slavko Goldstein
epub |eng | 2013-10-31 | Author:Slavko Goldstein [Goldstein, Slavko]

Kušan believes that Pavičić signed this “Obligation” to save his life and to gain his freedom, not to work for the UDBA. However, the new government in Croatia in 1990–1991 ...
( Category: Holocaust October 27,2014 )
Sex, Mom, and God: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics--And How I Learned to Love Women by Frank Schaeffer
epub |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Frank Schaeffer [Schaeffer, Frank]

Kathy left L’Abri, and just before she did I lost my virginity to Mandy, a beautiful twenty-year-old, all because Dad took me along on a speaking trip to Covenant College, ...
( Category: Religious October 27,2014 )
Affection and Trust by Truman Harry S
mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Truman, Harry S [Truman, Harry S]

The speech Truman sends Acheson is actually drawn from Truman’s Inaugural Address, not the State of the Union Message of 1949. The speech puts forward, like the Inaugural Address, a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers (The Politically Incorrect Guides) by McClanahan Brion
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:McClanahan, Brion [McClanahan, Brion]

His career took a decided turn for the better after his marriage. Franklin published the Gazette and ran a shop that traded in a variety of commodities, possibly including slaves. ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding October 27,2014 )
The Real Benjamin Franklin by Allison Andrew M
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Allison, Andrew M [Allison, Andrew M]

If the communication be through the air without any conductor, a bright light is seen between the bodies, and a sound is heard. In our small experiments we call this ...
( Category: Political October 27,2014 )
In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir by Cheney Dick
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Cheney, Dick [Cheney, Dick]

Liz and Mary on election night 2000 reacting to the news that the networks had called the election for George W. Bush and me. It was a premature – but ...
( Category: Political October 27,2014 )
The Real George Washington by Allison Andrew M
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Allison, Andrew M [Allison, Andrew M]

By common agreement, at first the text of the treaty was kept secret. But then a disgruntled Virginia Senator leaked it to the press, triggering an explosive public uproar. How ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
Tears of a Clown by Milbank Dana
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Milbank, Dana [Milbank, Dana]

CHAPTER 10 SCALPS To those who doubt the power of Beck, two words provide ample refutation: Van Jones. When forty-year-old Anthony “Van” Jones was named an adviser in the White ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction October 27,2014 )
The Jefferson Lies by Barton David
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Barton, David [Barton, David]

Leland made a special trip from Massachusetts to the White House to bring his friend Jefferson a special gift: a giant cheese. Leland proposed that his flock should celebrate [Jefferson’s] ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
A Time to Betray by Kahlili Reza
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Kahlili, Reza [Kahlili, Reza]

17 THE TORCH IS PASSED INSIDE MEHRABAD AIRPORT’S terminal, echoing voices competed with loudspeaker flight arrival and departure announcements. Somaya and Omid were waiting at the gate outside customs. I ...
( Category: Middle Eastern October 27,2014 )
An American Life: The Autobiography by Reagan Ronald
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Reagan, Ronald [Reagan, Ronald]

56 EVEN THOUGH I WAS constantly meeting new people and attending public events in the presence of thousands of people, I discovered a surprising dimension to the presidency—a bird-in-a-gilded-cage sense ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )

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