Presidents & Heads of State
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William J. Duiker

Even after signing the September 14 agreement, to the exasperation of his hosts Ho Chi Minh still seemed reluctant to return to Vietnam (in an extended biographical essay on Ho, ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2005-12-19 | Author:Churchill; The Unexpected Hero

SIX The Making of a Hero, 1939–1945 On 15 March 1939 German troops marched into Prague and the Czechoslovak state ceased to exist. The moral case for the Munich agreement––that ...
( Category: Great Britain December 20,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2005-01-13 | Author:Paul Addison

So long frustrated, the two great ambitions of Churchill’s youth–to be a military hero and a hero of democracy––had come together in a blaze of glory in his sixty–sixth year. ...
( Category: Great Britain December 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-17 | Author:Thomas J Craughwell

NATIONAL REGRET A movement for redress gathered force in the late 1960s and early 1970s and gradually, belatedly, won some concessions from the government. In 1976, President Gerald Ford rescinded ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 18,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Kantor, Jodi [Kantor, Jodi]

PERHAPS THE STRANGEST THING ABOUT the relationship between the president, the first lady, and the advisers was the sheer expansion it measured in the Obama union. That was the singular ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-22 | Author:Ishmael Reed [Reed, Ishmael]

A Tale of Two Callahans The Irish Black Thing10 (Dr. Nancy Mercado complains about the media confusing Mexican Americans with Puerto Ricans. Pakistani-American characters in Wajahat Ali’s play, The Domestic ...
( Category: African-American Studies December 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:David S. Heidler,Jeanne T. Heidler [Heidler, David S.]

Newspaper and pamphlet attacks had stepped up over the summer of 1792. Because Hamilton and Jefferson believed the other responsible for starting the public phase of the conflict, each thought ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Thomas, Evan [Thomas, Evan]

Like Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev felt comfortable around scientists. Awarded an engineering degree from the Stalin Industrial Academy, he was “very creative and curious” about technology, according to his son Sergei.21 ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:Kathryn Canavan

Booth escaped over the Navy Yard Bridge into Maryland. Credit: National Archives Gurley said, “I will speak to God.” Stanton replied, “Do it just now.”32 Gurley dropped to his knees ...
( Category: Civil War November 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Jon Meacham

The last two sentences of Bush’s remarks endure in popular memory. Revealing, too, were his parting words: “I’ve got to go. I have to go to work. I’ve got to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-18 | Author:Dan Ephron [Ephron, Dan]

SOMEHOW, THE JEWISH Affairs Department saw no way to make use of the information. It did, however, relay the report to Dignitary Protection, the unit within Shabak responsible for guarding ...
( Category: History & Theory November 12,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Roger Stone & Robert Morrow [Stone, Roger]

Ruddy examined the timeline when the various members of the White House were said to have discovered that Foster had committed suicide. “The White House said that the Secret Service ...
( Category: History & Theory November 11,2015 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Steven Lee Myers

CHAPTER 16 Kremlin, Inc. A week before the second runoff of Ukraine’s presidential election in December 2004, Russia dismantled Yukos Oil. In his public remarks ever since the affair began, ...
( Category: Russia November 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Michael Shelden [Shelden, Michael]

XVIII SOUND AND FURY The tall, creamy stucco house at one end of Eccleston Square—Number 33—was in a quiet part of London in those days, a leafy enclave tucked between ...
( Category: Great Britain November 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-10-31 | Author:Ferling, John

10 “The Boisterous Sea of Liberty” The Campaign of 1800 CAMPAIGNING IN 1796 had not begun until Washington announced his intention to retire, about a hundred days before election day. ...
( Category: Elections November 1,2015 )