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Washington by Ron Chernow
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Ron Chernow

PART FOUR The Statesman Bust of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon, sculpted in 1785. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT American Celebrity WITH PERFECT TIMING, George Washington made it home to the loving embrace ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Erik Larson

CHAPTER 31 Night Terrors The lives of the Dodds underwent a subtle change. Where once they had felt free to say anything they wished within their own home, now they ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Erik Larson

“HOW COULD I TELL HIM,” she wrote later, “that it was one of the strangest evenings I had ever spent in my life?” A sense of foreboding tempered her enjoyment. ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-01-10 | Author:Margaret Thatcher

SDI President Reagan’s Strategic Defence Initiative, about which the Soviets and Mr Gorbachev were already so alarmed, was to prove central to the West’s victory in the Cold War. Although, ...
( Category: Leadership March 25,2014 )
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-10-25 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

CHASE, UNLIKE LINCOLN, was never able to forgo his statesmanlike persona and simply enjoy conversations and lighter amusements. He was inclined to let things fester, brooding over perceived slights and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Queen Isabella by Alison Weir
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Alison Weir

There was no hint in this letter of any criticism of the King, to whom the Queen constantly referred as her “very dear lord,” as became a loving wife. Yet ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
mobi, epub |eng | 1980-09-11 | Author:Robert K. Massie

entrenched army. The rear of the new Russian camp overlooked the bluff of the Vorskla at a point where the bank was so steep and the river so broad and ...
( Category: World War I March 25,2014 )
Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-23 | Author:Edmund Morris

“A LARGE, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY.” Metropolitan magazine, TR’s main journalistic outlet from 1915 to 1918. (photo credit i20.1) The resultant twelve-chapter volume, entitled America and the World War, was issued ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
The First American by H.W. Brands
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-05-27 | Author:H.W. Brands

The riots gave bite to demands by the opponents of the Stamp Act for a coordinated rejection of the stamps. As few souls dared incur the wrath of the mobs, ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
Covering: The Hidden Assault on American Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino
mobi |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Kenji Yoshino

SEX-BASED COVERING The portraits that range the walls of this Yale Law School classroom are, with one exception, of men. They figure honored graduates—judges, professors, and deans. As the seats ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Alison Weir

When he arrived at Calais, Warwick began courting the friendship of Philip of Burgundy, whose ships he had recently so cheerfully plundered. The merchants of Calais and those in England ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

CHAPTER XXI I AM LIKE RIPE SHIT HEN Martin Luther proclaimed his theses at Wittenberg he was announcing, too, the triumph of his own self-awareness. The era of Protestantism, as ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 25,2014 )
Stone of Destiny by Ian Hamilton
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Ian Hamilton

Chapter Fifteen Twenty-four hours earlier we could have called the whole thing off and gone home to live with nothing worse than our private shame at our failure. Up until ...
( Category: Hoaxes & Deceptions March 25,2014 )
Churchill by Paul Johnson
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Paul Johnson

Chapter Five The Unregarded Prophet Now began the hardest, harshest period of Churchill’s life. He was lucky to have a safe seat where he was active, was much loved, and ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 25,2014 )
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-09 | Author:Barack Obama

Ten days later, Auma and I sat in the hard plastic seats of an airport terminal, looking out at the planes through the high wall of glass. I asked her ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )

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