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The Crimes of Elagabalus: The Life and Legacy of Rome's Decadent Boy Emperor by Martijn Icks
epub |eng | 2016-01-22 | Author:Martijn Icks [Icks, Martijn]

THE ‘EVIL TYRANT’: SELECTED WORKS Elagabalus in Aureli and Cavalli’s Eliogabalo (1667) Francesco Cavalli (1602–76) was one of the greatest opera composers of his time. When the impresario of the ...
( Category: Rome March 3,2020 )
First Entrepreneur by Edward G. Lengel
epub |eng | 2015-12-12 | Author:Edward G. Lengel

MOUNT VERNON’S MOST WELCOME VISITOR wasn’t human. His name was Royal Gift, a magnificent Spanish jackass sent by King Charles III of Spain. Washington accepted him ecstatically. For many years ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 2,2020 )
Radical-in-Chief by Stanley Kurtz
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Stanley Kurtz

Need a Lawyer A couple of months later, in a September 30, 1993, report on New Party activities to Danny Cantor, Keith Kelleher returns to the difficult issue of finding ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 2,2020 )
The Roosevelt I Knew by Frances Perkins
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Frances Perkins

18. LABOR AND THE CODES The NRA was a seed bed out of which many other activities and experiments grew. It was not only an administrative enterprise, but also a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 2,2020 )
Lincoln Reconsidered by David Herbert Donald
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Herbert Donald

II Such, then, are the new villains of the piece. Civil War historians agree upon so few matters that one hesitates to start another controversy by questioning this universally held ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 1,2020 )
Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History by Richard Wightman Fox
epub |eng | 2015-02-08 | Author:Richard Wightman Fox [Fox, Richard Wightman]

AFTER THE GROUNDBREAKING on Lincoln’s birthday in 1914, it took over eight years to complete the Lincoln Memorial. The details of the statue emerged slowly, as Daniel French built larger ...
( Category: American Civil War March 1,2020 )
A Ladybird Book About Donald Trump by Jason Hazeley
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Jason Hazeley

Donald likes to make terrible things nearly happen, and then stop them at the last minute. That way he can say he stopped a terrible thing from happening. It is ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 1,2020 )
Lincoln President-Elect by Harold Holzer
epub |eng | | Author:Harold Holzer

Chapter Ten No Occasion for Any Excitement BOARDING YET ANOTHER flag-bedecked inaugural special, Lincoln resumed his journey to Washington on Thursday morning, February 14. After an 8 A.M. farewell to ...
( Category: American Civil War February 29,2020 )
An Imperfect God by Henry Wiencek
epub |eng | 2018-12-23 | Author:Henry Wiencek

( Category: U.S. Presidents February 28,2020 )
Reagan Rising by Craig Shirley
epub |eng | 2017-03-20 | Author:Craig Shirley

10 “Big John” Versus “Poppy” “There was a haziness about exactly where he stood politically.” In the three years since John Connally was skipped over by Gerald Ford to be ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 28,2020 )
The Life Of George Washington, Vol. 2 (Extended Annotated Edition) by Washington Irving
epub |eng | 2014-01-08 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

The excitable populace of New York were not content with the ringing of bells to proclaim their joy. There was a leaden statue of George III. in the Bowling Green, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 28,2020 )
The Soldier from Independence by D. M. Giangreco
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:D. M. Giangreco [Giangreco, D. M.]

Very shortly after leaving Salisbury’s position behind, Truman’s column moved south past the fleeting position long since vacated by C Battery, commanded by his old friend Marks, then pastthe regimental ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 28,2020 )
Enver Hoxha by Fevziu Blendi; Elsie Robert; Nishku Majlinda
epub |eng | 2016-03-29 | Author:Fevziu, Blendi; Elsie, Robert; Nishku, Majlinda

In spite of everything, Hoxha did not give in to Khrushchev’s pressure, nor did he lose his composure. He managed to get himself out of this difficult situation, and it ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism February 28,2020 )
Becoming Ronald Reagan by Robert Mann
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Mann

12 Have You Reregistered as a Republican Yet? Through April 1962 Reagan was busy. His speeches attracted more attention, thanks to citizens and businesses who paid to broadcast his remarks ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 28,2020 )
When Reagan Sent In the Marines by Patrick J. Sloyan
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick J. Sloyan

10 Peace in a Madhouse Colonel Timothy Geraghty waved away his aide. The Marine commander was too busy for a phone call on September 8, 1983. He was in a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 28,2020 )

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