Presidents & Heads of State
epub |eng | 2015-05-30 | Author:Bruce Chadwick [CHADWICK, BRUCE]

VICTORY The way out came during the first week of July. The kidnappers realized that they might go to prison for substantial periods of time if their trial was heard ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-25 | Author:Hillary Rodham Clinton [Clinton, Hillary Rodham]

Students may participate in individual or group prayer during the school day, as long as they do so in a non-disruptive manner and when they are not engaged in school ...
( Category: Social Policy May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Harper, Brett

BUT IT DIDN’T stay buried long. On March 5, Reagan, along with members of his senior staff, returned from California, while Nancy stayed behind to watch Patti and tape an ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Kate Andersen Brower [Kate Andersen Brower]

CHAPTER VI Sacrifice That first day, I thought the Usher’s office was a twelve-by-twelve-foot madhouse. People ran in and out of the room all day, the phone rang incessantly, and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 15,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-10 | Author:Gillian Shephard

From the very start, she had steadily built up an enviable reputation among colleagues from all parties. Her maiden speech was unique, for she used it to introduce her own ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers April 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Jack Cashill

Wrote Goodwin: Mrs. Harvey Gibson gave a tea in her honor to introduce her to some of the other girls—hardly a routine practice for new recruits. Goodwin added only the ...
( Category: Executive Branch April 5,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-22 | Author:Bugliosi, Vincent [Bugliosi, Vincent]

11:00 a.m. Robert Oswald arrives at the Hotel Adolphus and finds that room 906 is a suite. A stranger answers his knock. “I’m Robert Oswald. Is my mother here?” “In ...
( Category: Executive Branch March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Martin Allen

( Category: World War II March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-13 | Author:Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince [Porter, Darwin]

Reagan gave Jane permission to “date” handsome Van Johnson, with his clean-cut boy-next-door look. Perhaps Van’s gender preference for men reassured everyone that he wouldn’t pose any serious threat to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Martha Hodes [Hodes, Martha]

Jefferson Davis, dressed in hoopskirt and military boots, hangs above an open grave. This 1865 cartoon lithograph, entitled “Freedom’s Immortal Triumph!” and “Finale of the ‘Jeff Davis Die-Nasty,’” shows a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:Deppisch, Ludwig M., M.D. [Deppisch, Ludwig M., M.D.]

Grace Goodhue Coolidge Grace Goodhue Coolidge, Florence Harding’s successor as first lady, was a stark contrast to her flamboyant predecessor, dissimilar in personality, in political influence, in controversy, and in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 21,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Lee, Kuan Yew [Lee, Kuan Yew]

* * * It is necessary to remind our young that when we started in 1954, and when we formed the government in 1959, we did not have the basic ...
( Category: Political March 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-31 | Author:Joan Mellen [Mellen, Joan]

RABBI 23 It’s a big operation. It’s predictable that a little bit of it would come up here and there. —Jim Garrison How many more Oswalds did they have out ...
( Category: Executive Branch March 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-15 | Author:Barton, David [Barton, David]

A final proof that Jefferson was not opposed to all clergy can found in his work on the Virginia constitution. The original 1776 state constitution contained a prohibition against clergy ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding March 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Harold Holzer [Holzer, Harold]

The day when the people of the United States were called upon to perform the painful duty of showing the last honors to the assassinated Chief Magistrate, was the gloomiest ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 10,2015 )