Presidents & Heads of State
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Darrin Lunde

Theodore Roosevelt (left) on the cowcatcher of a train used by the Smithsonian African Expedition in Kenya. R. J. Cuninghame (center) was Roosevelt’s professional hunting guide, and Dr. Edgar Mearns ...
( Category: Wildlife April 14,2016 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Gillian Kendall

The Soweto Massacre In 1976, the government began to require that half of all classes be given in Afrikaans, the language of the white supremacists. In demonstrations against this rule, ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 31,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Burns, James MacGregor;

“Profiles in Courage” Once Kennedy was out of immediate danger from his operation, his aides began to worry about his mental state. How would he take this prolonged inaction? They ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 14,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Geoffrey Cowan

Chapter Thirteen For anyone who understood politics, power, and the parliamentary realities of nominating conventions, the outcome should have been clear by the time the 1912 Republican Convention opened on ...
( Category: Elections March 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2001-02-14 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

The thrust of John Taylor’s long-winded and much-delayed critique of Adams’s Defence was to argue that, apart from specific disagreements about the power of the presidency and the role of ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Karl Rove

CHAPTER 23 Change Course or Fail The McKinley men gloated over Bryan’s nomination. They could not believe that anyone so young, inexperienced, and extreme had won the Democratic nomination. Bryan’s ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Weiner

CHAPTER NINETEEN “We have produced a horrible tragedy” AT 12:45 A.M. on Saturday, June 17, CREEP’s security chief, James McCord, and his crew of four Cuban Americans tiptoed into the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 4,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Betty Boyd Caroli

14 LINCHPIN IN THE LAUNCH OF THE GREAT SOCIETY ON JANUARY 20, 1965, as thousands gathered on the side of the Capitol and millions more tuned in on TV to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 2,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-07-12 | Author:Tad Szulc [Szulc, Tad]

CHAPTER 9 The crossing of the Granma from Tuxpán on the Mexican coast of the Gulf to the coast of Oriente province in Cuba was pure nightmare, lasting seven days ...
( Category: Political January 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-30 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

The Oxonian offered at once to have his fortune told, and the girl began with the usual volubility of her race; but he drew her on one side near the ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1982-01-02 | Author:Robert A. Caro

AS HE ENTERED the home stretch, however, he made two improvements in his strategy. One was his own inspiration. He always enjoyed such great success with elderly people; now he ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 20,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Mel Ayton [Ayton, Mel]

When Mahonski was arraigned before a judge, he insisted that he had been drugged by President Reagan, the CIA, the FBI, and the Air Force. He also said government agents ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Nixon

ITT The day after we returned from China, Jack Anderson began a series of newspaper columns in which he claimed to have unearthed a major administration scandal. His charges were ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State January 11,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Matthew Spalding & Patrick J. Garrity & Daniel J. Boorstin [Spalding, Matthew & Garrity, Patrick J. & Boorstin, Daniel J.]

Mather’s work became a survey of diseases. One of the proposals for its printing called it “An Essay upon the Common Maladies of Mankind: offering, first, The Sentiments of Piety, ...
( Category: Leadership January 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Richard Toye [Toye, Richard]

IV Menzies was no lone critic, however. The war was not going well and Churchill had to work constantly to maintain his position in Parliament. The German invasion of the ...
( Category: Great Britain January 6,2016 )