Presidents & Heads of State
epub |eng | 2013-03-13 | Author:Jesse Norman [Jesse Norman]

PART TWO Thought SIX Reputation, Reason and the Enlightenment Project IN THE 200-ODD YEARS since his death Burke’s reputation has followed a great arc. It rose steadily throughout the nineteenth ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Myron Stolaroff [Myron Stolaroff]

Ibogaine Myron: That leaves ibogaine, then. Jacob: This we have to explore to find the right dose. If I’m not sure how much it takes to turn them on, then ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 27,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Branko Marcetic

Viceroy Biden Despite winning what seemed like a mandate, Bush’s standing and popularity swiftly plummeted in the years that followed. Conditions in Iraq were deteriorating thanks to sectarian conflict and ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David A. Nichols

MISLEADING THE AMBASSADORS Ambassadors Aldrich in London and Dillon in Paris present a case study in ambassadorial misjudgment. They completely missed the signals that the allies had agreed upon a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-11 | Author:Josh Campbell

CHAPTER 10 Witch Hunt The Mueller investigation posed an existential threat to the White House the moment it began. It marked a turning point in the presidency of Donald Trump. ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Alter

The “fear itself” phrase brought forth little crowd or press reaction. Within days it began being quoted more often but it didn’t become famous until the 1936 campaign, when Democrats ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2000-02-22 | Author:John Ferling

8 “The Womb of Fate” Victory In the summer of 1780, when Adams told Vergennes that the war could be won only if the French fleet acted in concert with ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The High Cost of Defense, Nuclear Testing, Civil Rights January–July 1957 ON EVERY possible occasion, Eisenhower told the press, the politicians, and the public that the only way ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:Max Lerner

The brief months as vice president were a relief from Truman’s close to a decade of hard work, as senator, but also an anticlimax. Truman managed a large correspondence and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-20 | Author:Merle Miller

CHAPTER 22 THE 1948 VICTORY MR. PRESIDENT, you said the other day that you decided you were going to run for reelection the first day you were President, in April, ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mondo Frazier

14 Our Very First President of Self-Esteem Who is Barack Hussein Obama? Sometime in Barack Obama’s second year in office, the media transformed Obama into our very first President of ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jimmy Carter

On the last day of my leave, I asked Rosalynn to marry me, and was taken aback when she turned me down. I headed back to the Naval Academy in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-19 | Author:William J. Cooper

CHAPTER 7 — “The First and Holiest Rights of Humanity” JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WOULD BECOME A LUMINARY IN CONGRESS during the middle and late 1830s. As the first former president ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Andersen

Later that day, Wills admitted to Kate that he felt their ongoing charade was “ridiculous.” Within hours, they boarded a plane for yet another holiday together. This time, he promised ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:RICHARD REEVES

CHAPTER 24 October 21, 1971 JOHN ANDREWS was the designated anecdotalist standing behind President Nixon on September 30 at a White House reception for finance ministers and other officials in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 19,2020 )