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The Life Of George Washington, Vol. 1 (Extended Annotated Edition) by Washington Irving
epub |eng | 2014-01-08 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

FOUNDING OF FORT LOUDOUN—WASHINGTON'S TOUR OF INSPECTION—INEFFICIENCY OF THE MILITIA SYSTEM—GENTLEMEN SOLDIERS—CROSS-PURPOSES WITH DINWIDDIE— MILITARY AFFAIRS IN THE NORTH—DELAYS OF LORD LOUDOUN—ACTIVITY OF MONTCALM—LOUDOUN IN WINTER QUARTERS. Throughout the summer ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 12,2020 )
Reagan's War by Peter Schweizer
epub |eng | 2018-11-26 | Author:Peter Schweizer

( Category: Communism & Socialism March 11,2020 )
Being Poppy by Richard Ben Cramer
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Ben Cramer

IT WAS THAT SPRING, ’62, when Houston’s party leaders came to Bush’s house for lunch. Oh, they were in an awful bind. The GOP was growing in Houston—in fact, it ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 11,2020 )
Up Close with Lee Kuan Yew by Up Close & Lee Kuan Yew
epub |eng | | Author:Up Close & Lee Kuan Yew

STEPHEN LEE President, Singapore National Employers Federation, 1988–2014 I do what I advise others to do! But everyone is entitled to a treat every now and then. – Lee Kuan ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 11,2020 )
Abraham Lincoln's Wit and Wisdom by Abraham Lincoln
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Abraham Lincoln

It does look as if the people wanted me to stay here a little longer, and I suppose I shall have to, if they do. —Remark overheard by the diarist ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 11,2020 )
The Life Of George Washington, Vol. 3 (Extended Annotated Edition) by Washington Irving
epub |eng | 2014-01-08 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

General Fraser was well worthy of this eulogium. He was the most popular officer of the army, and one of the most efficient. He was one in whom Burgoyne reposed ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 10,2020 )
Famous American Statesmen by Sarah Bolton
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Bolton

Here Mr. Webster broke down, overcome by the recollections of those early days of poverty, and the self-sacrifice of the dead father. The eyes of Chief Justice Marshall were suffused ...
( Category: History & Theory March 10,2020 )
Ike and Dick by Jeffrey Frank
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Frank

CHAPTER 19 The Good Life 1 It would have been natural for Nixon and Eisenhower to go their separate ways after January 20; that was the custom of the men ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 10,2020 )
Up Close with Lee Kuan Yew by Various
epub |eng | | Author:Various

STEPHEN LEE President, Singapore National Employers Federation, 1988–2014 I do what I advise others to do! But everyone is entitled to a treat every now and then. – Lee Kuan ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 10,2020 )
Churchill and America by Martin Gilbert
epub |eng | 2018-10-12 | Author:Martin Gilbert

Immediately after learning of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Churchill had telegraphed to Harry Hopkins, signing the telegram jointly with Averell Harriman. Their message read: “Thinking of you much ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 10,2020 )
The Faith of George W. Bush by Stephen Mansfield
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-11-29 | Author:Stephen Mansfield

It is hard to say what part of the Bush legacy most inspired George W., but there is certainly fuel for the imagination in the tale. There were, for example, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 10,2020 )
To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order by Thomas J. Knock
epub |eng | 2018-12-25 | Author:Thomas J. Knock

11 The Stern Covenanter New York Harbor erupted in splendid pandemonium as the George Washington, bearing President Wilson and a small army of advisers and newspaper reporters, began its historic ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 10,2020 )
Vladimir Lenin: How to Become a Leader by Vladlen Loginov
epub |eng | | Author:Vladlen Loginov [Loginov, Vladlen]

The Birth of a Party Ulyanov detailed his further movements in a letter to Axelrod: “I was initially in Vilnius. I spoke with people there about the collection. The majority ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 10,2020 )
The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin
epub |eng | 2018-10-28 | Author:Benjamin Franklin

* * * AN EDICT BY THE KING OF PRUSSIA (1773) A prolific political journalist, Franklin generally considered his political writings ephemeral. When asked for a gathering of such pieces ...
( Category: American Revolution March 9,2020 )
Personal Memoirs Of General Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
epub |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Ulysses S. Grant [Unbekannt]

Meantime, Sherman continued his crossing without intermission as fast as his troops could be got up. The crossing had to be effected in full view of the enemy on the ...
( Category: American Civil War March 9,2020 )

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