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Ragtime in the White House by Eliot Vestner
epub |eng | 2020-05-06 | Author:Eliot Vestner

Chapter 25 Hawaii “We cannot let those islands go to Japan . . . Her people are crowding in there.” William McKinley At the beginning of the war, France and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 22,2020 )
General George Washington by Edward G. Lengel
epub |eng | 2005-06-06 | Author:Edward G. Lengel

12 PHILADELPHIA December 1776 – September 1777 THE HUDSON RIVER dominated British strategic thinking in 1776. Both Lord Germain and William Howe thought that by controlling it Britain could end ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 19,2020 )
The Inevitability of Tragedy by Barry Gewen
epub |eng | 2020-03-18 | Author:Barry Gewen

CHAPTER FIVE VIETNAM IN THE EARLY 1950S, HANS MORGENTHAU TOOK TIME OFF from his duties at the University of Chicago to accept an appointment as a visiting professor at Harvard, ...
( Category: Diplomacy June 2,2020 )
Team of Five by Kate Andersen Brower
epub |eng | 2020-03-17 | Author:Kate Andersen Brower

OBAMA’S CONTROVERSIAL LIBRARY The reason Barack Obama spends a significant amount of time raising money for his library is simple: presidential libraries cost astronomical sums to build. But donors can ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 27,2020 )
President without a Party by Christopher J. Leahy
epub |eng | 2020-05-14 | Author:Christopher J. Leahy

Chapter 14 AGGRESSIVE FOREIGN POLICY Shortly after midnight on Monday, October 25, 1841, an American merchant brig, the Creole, slipped out of port at Hampton Roads, Virginia, en route to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 26,2020 )
Partners in Crime; The Clintons' Scheme to Monetize the White House for Personal Profit by Jerome R. Corsi
epub |eng | | Author:Jerome R. Corsi [Corsi, Jerome R.]

Judicial Watch concluded that Bill Clinton did speak to the scrap-recycling group on April 30, 2009, for a reported fee of $250,000.44 DOUG BAND, TENEO, WJC, AND STATE DEPARTMENT REVIEW ...
( Category: Radicalism May 24,2020 )
Lyndon Johnson's War by Michael H. Hunt
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Michael H. Hunt

4 “THAT BITCH OF A WAR” Lyndon Johnson loved folksy, vivid language. It came to him as readily in formal White House meetings as on the hustings in his native ...
( Category: Vietnam War May 18,2020 )
Downfall by Andrew Hacker
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Andrew Hacker

I am pro-guns, anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-tax, and anti-Muslim. (North Carolina) Obamacare was a big step toward a socialistic system. (Virginia) Islam is not a religion. It’s a violent, radical crusade. ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism May 12,2020 )
How to Feed a Dictator by Witold Szablowski
epub |eng | 2020-04-28 | Author:Witold Szablowski [Szablowski, Witold]

5. To talk about Enver Hoxha, I’ve arranged to meet Erjon Hysaj, a historian from Tirana. We’re sitting in Blloku, once a closed district only for the people in power ...
( Category: Fascism May 7,2020 )
James Monroe by Tim McGrath
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Tim McGrath [McGrath, Tim]

* * * · · · MONROE RETURNED TO Washington from his tour on September 17, 1817, the thirtieth anniversary of the Constitution’s ratification. By this time the Republicans routinely ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 7,2020 )
The Lincoln Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer
epub |eng | | Author:Brad Meltzer

51 Baltimore, Maryland February 15, 1861 The stage is set. Throughout his career, Pinkerton has gone undercover dozens of times. He’s played many roles, worn many different disguises, and infiltrated ...
( Category: American Civil War May 6,2020 )
Sulla: A Dictator Reconsidered by Lynda Telford
epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Lynda Telford

Chapter Twelve Despite Sulla’s successes abroad and the validity of his claims as itemized in the letter he had sent to Rome, he still had opposition to face at home. ...
( Category: Rome May 3,2020 )
The Last President of Europe by William Drozdiak
epub |eng | 2020-04-28 | Author:William Drozdiak [DROZDIAK, WILLIAM]

PART THREE THE WORLD CHAPTER 7 DEALING WITH THE DONALD As Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, arrived at the South Lawn entrance to the White House for the first ...
( Category: European April 28,2020 )
U.S. Presidents For Dummies by Marcus A. Stadelmann
epub |eng | 2020-03-29 | Author:Marcus A. Stadelmann [Stadelmann, Marcus A.]

DETERMINING THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I World War I (WWI) broke out in Europe in August 1914 and lasted until November 1918. The war proved to be the bloodiest ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 24,2020 )
Every Drop of Blood by Edward Achorn
epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Edward Achorn [Achorn, Edward]

CHAPTER 11 ANDY AIN’T A DRUNKARD Saturday, noon, March 4, 1865 Well-dressed white men and women, eager to get out of the rain and the muck, swarmed to the doors ...
( Category: American Civil War April 24,2020 )

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