epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

A Manhattan bread line operated by the Salvation Army. By 1931 there were 82 bread lines in New York, serving some 85,000 meals a day to those who had no ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-11 | Author:Earley, Pete [Earley, Pete]

Chapter 38 Had John Walker, Jr., not been a spy, he would have liked to have joined the FBI after retiring from the Navy. This is what he said, with ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Harlow Giles Unger

Chapter 11 A Belgian Hare When the Virginia legislature reconvened in Richmond, British depredations had left fewer than 300 homes standing, and the depleted population was unable to offer legislators ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Tavis Smiley

PART II THE FINAL SEASON The Last Three Months Chapter Thirteen THIRTY-NINE The year begins ominously. The war is six years old, soon to be the longest in American history—nearly ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Susan Jacoby & Susan Jacoby

VI Reason and Passion Not till the sun excludes you, do I exclude you. —Walt Whitman, “To a Common Prostitute” Allusions to this famous, once-scandalous Whitman poem occur many times, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-02-24 | Author:Humberto Fontova [Fontova, Humberto]

CHAPTER ELEVEN OPERATION CUBAN FREEDOM—NOT! “Freedom is our goal,” roared Pepe San Roman to the men he commanded. “Cuba is our cause. God is on our side. On to victory!”1 ...

epub |eng | 1995-12-26 | Author:Margaret Truman [Truman, Margaret]

Here Lady Bird relaxes in a field of bluebonnets, reminding us she was the First Lady who revitalized America’s love of natural beauty. (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library) Lady Bird personally ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Emmanuel Carrère [Carrère, Emmanuel]

5 EDUARD’S FRIEND FABIENNE ISSARTEL, the Parisian nightlife queen, said to him: “You’re angry at everyone, you don’t agree with anyone. I know just the person you should meet.” She ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-20 | Author:Loades, David [Loades, David]

7 THE FALL OF THOMAS CROMWELL, 1539–1540 Master Cromwell … you are now entered into the service of a most noble, wise and liberal prince … you shall in your ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Laura Auricchio [Auricchio, Laura]

CHAPTER 15 TRIUMPH Lafayette emerged victorious from a night that could well have been his last, but the time for celebration was not yet at hand. A seasoned general, he ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Kirsten Gillibrand [Gillibrand, Kirsten]

The whole first six months on the job were like drinking from a fire hose. Outside my home district, few of my nearly twenty million new constituents knew me or ...

epub |eng | 2006-12-24 | Author:John English [English, John]

Emmanuel Mounier, the French Catholic personalist and founder of Esprit, had taught Trudeau to “see, judge, act.” It was now the time to act. That summer, Trudeau began to encounter ...

mobi |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Darman, Jonathan [Darman, Jonathan]

LADY BIRD’S POLITICAL instincts were superior to those of her husband, and to those of the rest of Washington as well. The print publications, assuming their readers would be equal ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-27 | Author:Ramachandra Guha & Jay Taylor & Rana Mitter & Odd Arne Westad & Srinath Raghavan & Farzana Shaikh & James Rush & Michael D. Barr & Jian Chen & Sophie Quinn-Judge [Guha, Ramachandra & Taylor, Jay & Mitter, Rana & Westad, Odd Arne & Raghavan, Srinath & Shaikh, Farzana & Rush, James & Barr, Michael D. & Chen, Jian & Quinn-Judge, Sophie]

Guiding Democracy Sukarno arrived back in Indonesia in October following the second of his whirlwind tours refreshed and confident. But what he had seen also disturbed him. Much of the ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Nixon

21 POWER When we met with Mao Tse-tung in Beijing in 1972, Henry Kissinger remarked that he had assigned Mao’s writings to his classes at Harvard. With typical self-deprecation, Mao ...