Presidents & Heads of State
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Shimon Peres [Peres, Shimon]

He put the issue to the vote: Declare the state in two days’ time as planned, or wait? By a vote of six to four the ministers of the Provisional ...
( Category: Jewish October 22,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-10-18 | Author:David Pietrusza [Pietrusza, David]

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO “We always call her ‘Granny’” TO SOME POLITICS WAS A WAR NOT ALWAYS WORTH FIGHTING. Just before midnight Monday, September 12, Joe Kennedy and his loyal henchman Eddie ...
( Category: History & Theory October 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-28 | Author:Karen Bartet [Bartet, Karen]

Opportunity in Defeat Obama's refusal to play identity politics with his vice-presidential nomination did him credit and made John McCain's mad appropriation of the equally mad Sarah Palin look opportunistic. ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State October 19,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Arnn, Dr. Larry [Arnn, Dr. Larry]

10 THE CONSTITUTIONALIST Churchill wrote that a Municipal Trust would be more dangerous than the Beef Trust. Something must be done, he thought, for the victims of the Beef Trust ...
( Category: Great Britain October 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Edward Klein

“To be really good at [politics] you’ve gotta like people,” Bill Clinton said. “You’ve gotta like policy. And you’ve gotta like politics. You’ve gotta have a pain threshold. You have ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion October 11,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Bill O'Reilly

John Hinckley Jr. being tackled by Secret Service agents and other onlookers after his attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan, March 30, 1981 As Hinckley is subdued, three men are fighting ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:William J. Cooper [Cooper, William J.]

Eastern Theater, July-December 1862. From W. J. Cooper and T. E. Terrill, The American South: A History (2d ed.), with permission of the McGraw-Hill Companies Bragg had worked on organization ...
( Category: American Civil War October 10,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-06 | Author:Katherine Frank [Frank, Katherine]

Indira did not consult Kamaraj, the Congress President, about the ‘strong medicine’ of devaluation, knowing that he was vehemently opposed to it. As were a number of cabinet ministers when ...
( Category: India & South Asia September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Hunt, Amber,Batcher, David & David Batcher

Though Jackie seems to have had few illusions about Jack’s behavior, it still hurt and angered her. Though in the abstract she had a Continental acceptance of a “man’s nature,” ...
( Category: Political August 19,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Jacob Weisberg

AS FAR AS ROVE was concerned, Bush’s reelection as governor was merely a warm-up drill for the presidential campaign that would begin immediately afterward. Victory was a foregone conclusion, so ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Christopher Hitchens [Hitchens, Christopher]

This admonition to Short greatly overstated George Washington’s partisanship for France, but it did not overstate—or not by much—the general American feeling that the Jacobins were making European history, and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:Blaine Harden [Harden, Blaine]

CHAPTER 10 Uncle Yoo I After Stalin died, Uncle Yoo paid a surprise visit to his nephew’s air base in Manchuria. He was now Major Yoo, leader of a supply ...
( Category: North July 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-19 | Author:Bart Jones [Jones, Bart]

Rather than petering out, the mudslinging got worse. Urdaneta’s accusations against Miquilena included charges that he was a shareholder in a printing company that won a noncompetitive contract from the ...
( Category: Venezuela July 20,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:Jimmy Carter [Carter, Jimmy]

Worship, and Foreign Leaders My religious faith had become a minor issue during the campaign, when I responded “yes” to a reporter’s question, “Are you a born-again Christian?” Some reporters ...
( Category: History & Theory July 18,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:H. W. Brands

On March 29 Grant began moving. The rain had stopped and roads begun to dry. But the army was scarcely in motion when the skies opened again. “The heavy rains ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 15,2015 )