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Bush by Jean Edward Smith
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-07-04 | Author:Jean Edward Smith [Smith, Jean Edward]

* * * I. Powell’s views were more than vindicated in October 2004, when Charles Duelfer, who had succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Study Group, submitted a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 11,2016 )
Hillary the Other Woman by Kyle Dolly;
epub |eng | 2016-07-06 | Author:Kyle, Dolly;

27 THE GANGSTER ON THE CORNER When my parents moved to Hot Springs in the late 1940s, one of the first things my daddy noticed was that the town lacked ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 9,2016 )
The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down by Geoff Shepard
epub |eng | 2015-08-02 | Author:Geoff Shepard [Shepard, Geoff]

CHAPTER 7 EVENHANDED, NONPARTISAN PROSECUTORS Equal protection of the law implies even-handed prosecutions for criminal conduct. But highly partisan WSPF prosecutors targeted Nixon’s top aides, charged them with highly questionable ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 28,2016 )
Disraeli by David Cesarani
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-06-14 | Author:David Cesarani

VII The years of opposition between 1852 and 1858 had been long and grueling. Disraeli worked ceaselessly to persuade his party to drop protection and to persuade the electorate that ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 15,2016 )
Before the Trumpet by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

* * * 1. Another wealthy Hyde Park boy who attended Groton some years after FDR had moved on recalled how hard it had it been for him to adjust ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 31,2016 )
Roosevelt and the Holocaust by Robert L. Beir
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Robert L. Beir

Chapter 15 “With a Determined Resolve” In the spring of 1940 an American code clerk named Tyler Kent was caught turning American-British diplomatic correspondence, including Roosevelt-Churchill exchanges, over to Axis ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 27,2016 )
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
epub |eng | | Author:David McCullough

3 That winter in New York was the busiest and possibly the happiest time Theodore had ever known. Even the most frenetic days at Harvard had never been quite so ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 26,2016 )
Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life by Gopnik Adam
epub |eng | 2009-01-27 | Author:Gopnik, Adam [Gopnik, Adam]

These are not just what professors would call rhetorical strategies, things that work. They are a circuit of feelings and implicit themes, of voice, that makes The Origin not just ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 25,2016 )
Five Days in November by Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin [Hill, Clint & McCubbin, Lisa]

My emotions, as well as those of the other agents, must be suppressed because we cannot allow personal feelings to interfere with the job we have to do. We must ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 21,2016 )
Rightful Heritage by Douglas Brinkley
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Douglas Brinkley

CHAPTER FIFTEEN “I HOPE THE SON-OF-A-BITCH WHO LOGGED THAT IS ROASTING IN HELL” I Not all of Franklin Roosevelt’s American adventures in 1937 were on the open sea or in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 6,2016 )
0062439650 (N) by Kate Andersen Brower
azw3 |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Kate Andersen Brower

JACKIE SPOKE IN a childlike whisper of a voice (Kennedy’s sisters called her “the Deb” behind her back), but she was tough as nails and would cut people off if ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 25,2016 )
Under This Roof by Paul Brandus
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Brandus

Beyond changing the White House, Theodore Roosevelt changed the way in which Americans saw the presidency itself. It was seen, more than ever, as a center of great and unmatched ...
( Category: History & Theory April 23,2016 )
Grace and Power by Sally Bedell Smith
epub |eng | 2004-05-03 | Author:Sally Bedell Smith

Jackie marked her triumphant return from India and Pakistan on Thursday, March 29, by issuing a subdued, almost melancholy statement: “It feels unnatural to me to go on such a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 23,2016 )
Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership by Jon Knokey
epub |eng | 2015-04-21 | Author:Jon Knokey

Since at least 1886, when he offered to fight against Mexico with “an entire regiment of cowboys,” Theodore had dreamed of military glory. He wanted to restore honor to the ...
( Category: Leadership April 22,2016 )
Heir to the Empire City by Edward P. Kohn
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edward P. Kohn [Kohn, Edward P.]

DARK SHADOWS HAD ALWAYS cast themselves across Roosevelt’s life. In his youth he had been small and sickly. By age twenty-five, Roosevelt had grieved the loss of the three people ...
( Category: State & Local April 14,2016 )

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