Presidents & Heads of State
mobi |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Peter Baker

BUSH HAD HAD IT with the conservatives who were beating up Harriet Miers. The more they attacked her, the more he dug in. “I do not care about them at ...
( Category: Executive Branch November 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-03 | Author:Tony Blair

THIRTEEN. IRAQ: COUNTDOWN TO WAR As I thought on how to answer the question put to me at the end of my evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-05-25 | Author:David Corn [Corn, David]

In early January 2002, the White House—which had refused for months to release any information about the deliberations of the Cheney energy task force—did disclose that Enron representatives had met ...
( Category: Executive Branch November 11,2014 )
mobi |es | 2009-04-18 | Author:Barack Obama

Chapter Six — Faith TWO DAYS AFTER I won the Democratic nomination in my U.S. Senate race, I received an email from a doctor at the University of Chicago Medical ...
( Category: African-American Studies November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-09 | Author:Curt Smith

ELEVEN Into the Abyss Bush returned to an administration lessened by the December 4 resignation of Chief of Staff Sununu, who had been accused of using government jets for personal ...
( Category: Executive Branch November 10,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-06 | Author:Albert Jay Nock [Jay Nock, Albert]

II Alexander Hamilton came to the colonies at the age of sixteen, from his home in the West Indies, dissatisfied with the prospect of spending his days in “the grovelling ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-03 | Author:Johnson, Paul

PART FIVE A Fair Campaign for the White House Given the American tradition of electing successful generals as presidents—a tradition formed by George Washington, Andrew Jackson and Ulysses S. Grant—there ...
( Category: World War II November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Andrew Burstein [Burstein, Andrew; Isenberg, Nancy]

“River of Thieves” Jefferson’s handling of the Tripolitan War has to be one of the most instructive episodes in early U.S. foreign policy. Often seen as a diversion, the administration’s ...
( Category: National November 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-10-30 | Author:Avi Shlaim

16 The October War All diplomatic activity to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict was suspended in the second half of 1972. Israel had no real interest in negotiating with any of ...
( Category: Middle Eastern October 31,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Truman, Harry S [Truman, Harry S]

The speech Truman sends Acheson is actually drawn from Truman’s Inaugural Address, not the State of the Union Message of 1949. The speech puts forward, like the Inaugural Address, a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Allison, Andrew M [Allison, Andrew M]

By common agreement, at first the text of the treaty was kept secret. But then a disgruntled Virginia Senator leaked it to the press, triggering an explosive public uproar. How ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Barton, David [Barton, David]

Leland made a special trip from Massachusetts to the White House to bring his friend Jefferson a special gift: a giant cheese. Leland proposed that his flock should celebrate [Jefferson’s] ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Reagan, Ronald [Reagan, Ronald]

56 EVEN THOUGH I WAS constantly meeting new people and attending public events in the presence of thousands of people, I discovered a surprising dimension to the presidency—a bird-in-a-gilded-cage sense ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Obama, Barack [Obama, Barack]

Ten days later, Auma and I sat in the hard plastic seats of an airport terminal, looking out at the planes through the high wall of glass. I asked her ...
( Category: African-American Studies October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Thomas J. Craughwell [ Craughwell, Thomas J.]

As for French fries, Jefferson knew them as pommes de terre frites à cru, en petites tranches, or potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small cuttings. Of course, baking macaroni with ...
( Category: French October 27,2014 )