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The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump by Dan P. McAdams
epub |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:Dan P. McAdams

Kenberg’s pathological narcissists inhabit a landscape without laws, in which brutality, aggression, and predation reign. By his telling, envy, sadism, and corruption, all forms of “rationalized aggression,” course through social ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 13,2020 )
Hiding in Plain Sight by Sarah Kendzior
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Kendzior

My commentary was not well received by White House loyalists. But I was speaking from a place of patriotism. I was speaking out for my country, because the elevation of ...
( Category: Fascism April 9,2020 )
The Toddler-In-Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us About the Modern Presidency by Daniel W. Drezner
epub |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:Daniel W. Drezner [Drezner, Daniel W.]

Typically, Trump is accompanied by only a small staff entourage, sometimes with mid-level aides, on his weekend jaunts to Florida. But on Friday, several senior White House officials, including acting ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 9,2020 )
Lincoln on the Verge by Ted Widmer
epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Ted Widmer

Lincoln’s parade (New-York Illustrated News, March, 2, 1861) THE PARADE Lincoln’s parade was a glorious chaos from the start.105 One observer wrote, “Such a crowd as greeted his arrival I ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 8,2020 )
Beyond the White Hous by Jimmy Carter
epub |eng | | Author:Jimmy Carter

* * * A polling official announces each vote, one by one, to assembled citizens, then shows them the marked ballot, as votes are tallied in a Jakarta polling station ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 7,2020 )
The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World by A. J. Baime
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-23 | Author:A. J. Baime [Baime, A. J.]

25 ON MAY 28, Truman experienced for the first time the awestriking pageantry of a White House State Dinner. The regent of Iraq—Prince Abd al-Ilah—arrived in Washington with his entourage. ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 6,2020 )
Napoleon by Emil Ludwig
mobi |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Emil Ludwig

(From the " Corpus Imaginum " of the Photographic Society, Charlottenburg.) Napoleon as Emperor. Painting by Vigneux. Count Primoli Collection. BOOK FOUR THE SEA It is essential that this man ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers April 4,2020 )
Sharing Good Times by Jimmy Carter
epub |eng | | Author:Jimmy Carter

FAMILY VACATIONS WITH OUR FOUR CHILDREN, their spouses, and eleven grandchildren, ranging in age from five to twenty-nine, and with some of them married or with long-standing and apparently permanent ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 1,2020 )
The Making of the President 1964 by White Theodore H
epub |eng | 2010-12-13 | Author:White, Theodore H. [White, Theodore H.]

History can signal its changes to wise men without violence, but for those who prefer to ignore its message, it then raps with gunfire to call attention. The riots of ...
( Category: Elections March 30,2020 )
Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction by Allen C. Guelzo
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-02-05 | Author:Allen C. Guelzo [Guelzo, Allen C.]

Chapter 5 Debate The failure of popular sovereignty Contrary to the promises Stephen Douglas made for the popular sovereignty doctrine, almost nothing about popular sovereignty went right after the Kansas-Nebraska ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 30,2020 )
John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial by Dan Abrams
epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:Dan Abrams [Abrams, Dan]

Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society Samuel Adams was an astute politician who became a leading force in the revolution and an architect of the resulting republic. He deftly exploited ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 30,2020 )
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne [Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de]

"This, General, is all I have to tell you respecting my relations with Pichegru, and it must convince you that very false and hasty inferences have been drawn from conduct ...
( Category: Europe March 30,2020 )
1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History by Jay Winik
epub |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Jay Winik [Winik, Jay]

The movements of the Allied and Axis troops during the North Africa campaign The plan called for landing the army under the cover of darkness, and he was well aware ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 30,2020 )
Warlord by Carlo D'Este
epub |eng | 2008-03-14 | Author:Carlo D'Este

The last British soldier at Dunkirk the morning of June 3, 1940, was an aristocratic, unflappable Guards officer in charge of the British rear guard. Major General Harold Alexander, best ...
( Category: World War I March 28,2020 )
Don Dunstan by Angela Woollacott
epub |eng | 2019-06-22 | Author:Angela Woollacott

10 Adelaide is not Canberra The Dunstan government received an immense gift ahead of its campaign for the state election on 10 March 1973: the Liberal Party split. Steele Hall ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 27,2020 )

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