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The Lion of the Senate by Nick Littlefield
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Littlefield

THE SEARCH FOR ONE “BIG IDEA” On October 16, in preparation for the pending budget impasse, Kennedy invited several political consultants to his home to discuss the Democratic strategy. (The ...
( Category: Legislative Branch August 3,2020 )
Robert Kennedy by Evan Thomas
epub |eng | | Author:Evan Thomas

CHAPTER 14 WORN IN OCTOBER 1963, Robert Kennedy reversed himself again and gave the FBI authority to wiretap Martin Luther King. Kennedy’s signature became a hunting license for J. Edgar ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 3,2020 )
Robert Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas
azw3 |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Evan Thomas [Thomas, Evan]

CHAPTER 14 WORN IN OCTOBER 1963, Robert Kennedy reversed himself again and gave the FBI authority to wiretap Martin Luther King. Kennedy’s signature became a hunting license for J. Edgar ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 3,2020 )
By His Own Rules by Bradley Graham
epub |eng | | Author:Bradley Graham

Over the next few months, Bremer moved farther away from the idea of arranging for the transitional Iraqi authority that Garner and Khalilzad had pursued and that Rumsfeld and his ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars August 3,2020 )
Strom Thurmond's America by Joseph Crespino
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Joseph Crespino [Crespino, Joseph]

10 ANNUS MIRABILIS (1968) On June 22, 1968, Strom Thurmond endorsed Richard Nixon to be the next president of the United States. The announcement dumbfounded political observers in South Carolina ...
( Category: Legislative Branch August 2,2020 )
Life of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman
epub |eng | 2010-06-27 | Author:Alexander Berkman

Despite the signs that the Russian Revolution was heading toward a future diametrically opposed to the ideals that inspired it, Berkman—on hearing of the “Red Scare” in the United States ...
( Category: Anarchism August 2,2020 )
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World by Samantha Power
mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Samantha Power

Just before he had left the United States, Ibrahim had become engaged to Marcia Luar, an Angolan. As the weeks passed, Luar grew suspicious that Ibrahim might be straying with ...
( Category: Political August 2,2020 )
The Man Who Remade India by Vinay Sitapati
epub |eng | 2018-08-15 | Author:Vinay Sitapati

A year into Rao’s premiership, the opposition parties were coming to the same conclusion as Arjun Singh: the prime minister was not going to fall on his own; he needed ...
( Category: Asian August 2,2020 )
Frank by Barney Frank
epub |eng | | Author:Barney Frank

8 DEFENDING CLINTON Ever since 1993, I’d been defending both Clintons from Republican attacks on their integrity. Serving on the Financial Services Committee, I observed the investigation into the Clintons’ ...
( Category: LGBT August 2,2020 )
Ben-Gurion: A Political Life (Jewish Encounters) by Shimon Peres & David Landau
azw3 |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Shimon Peres & David Landau [Peres, Shimon]

He put the issue to the vote: Declare the state in two days’ time as planned, or wait? By a vote of six to four the ministers of the Provisional ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 2,2020 )
Churchill by David Cannadine
epub |eng | | Author:David Cannadine

8. ‘SEA POWER’ IN ART Speech at the art exhibition opening, New Burlington Galleries, London, 27 July 1937 I noticed this morning in The Times an appreciative criticism which nevertheless ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 1,2020 )
Drumblair by Rachel Manley
epub |eng | 1996-08-14 | Author:Rachel Manley

Later that evening, after he had walked the aunts to their cars, Pardi joined us on the steps to meditate at the edge of a world where the moon wandered ...
( Category: Political August 1,2020 )
Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia Following 911 by Robert W. Jordan & Steve Fiffer
azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-06-30 | Author:Robert W. Jordan & Steve Fiffer [Jordan, Robert W.]

8 What’s more improbable? Watching a Jewish U.S. senator and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia share verses from the Old Testament and Quran on Christmas Day? Or watching the ...
( Category: Diplomacy August 1,2020 )
Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs—A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder by Ben Mezrich
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Ben Mezrich [Mezrich, Ben]

* * * I. Used with permission of The Associated Press Copyright © 2014. All rights reserved. CHAPTER TWENTY * * * June 15, 2000, Alexandrovka Dacha BEREZOVSKY’S WORLD HAD ...
( Category: History & Theory August 1,2020 )
Alone against Hitler by Jack Bray
epub |eng | 2020-03-12 | Author:Jack Bray

V CONFRONTATION • 8 • Ambush at Berchtesgaden “Perhaps you will wake up one morning in Vienna to find us there—just like a spring storm.” —Adolf Hitler As dawn broke ...
( Category: World War II August 1,2020 )

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