Presidents & Heads of State
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Shelden

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 October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Shashi Tharoor

8 “Commanding Heights”: 1947–1957 One man did not join the celebrations that midnight. Mahatma Gandhi stayed in Calcutta, fasting, striving to keep the peace in a city that just a ...
( Category: India October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Thomas A. Foster [Foster, Thomas A.]

Franklin and French Beauties As for Franklin's reputation while a widower in France, today Franklin appears to be the harmless older man and not the threatening sexual deviant. The "French ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding October 16,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2001-10-24 | Author:Kershaw, Ian [Kershaw, Ian]

IV Not lost, however, was the war against the Jews – in Hitler’s eyes, the authors of the entire world conflagration. As we noted, Hitler had agreed in June to ...
( Category: Germany October 14,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:The Bully Pulpit

( Category: Leadership September 29,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:Gettysburg

( Category: U.S. Presidents September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-11 | Author:Chernow, Ron [Chernow, Ron]

TWENTY-TWO STABBED IN THE DARK E ven as their feud worsened, both Hamilton and Jefferson pleaded with Washington to stand for a second term as president. It may have been ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Jim Newton

12 On the Edge The trouble began, as it would so often, in the Middle East. Its origins in some ways resembled the Iran crisis that greeted Eisenhower when he ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Candice Millard

THAT NIGHT, after the men, now numbering only twenty-one, had finished their portage around the last waterfall, they retired to their tents and hammocks. Hunched over his small table, Roosevelt ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-02-21 | Author:Jean Edward Smith

SEVENTEEN Columbia Stand Columbia! Alma Mater Through the storms of Time abide —GILBERT OAKLEY WARD Eisenhower stepped down as chief of staff on February 7, 1948, and Omar Bradley was ...
( Category: World War II September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-16 | Author:Ishmael Reed

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: Executive Branch September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Ronald McNair Scott [Ronald McNair Scott]

Bruce had used this raid to test the quality of the resistance he might expect, and having found it wanting he resolved to enlarge the scale of his invasion. Taking ...
( Category: Scotland September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:John W. Dean [Dean, John W.]

April 15, 1973, the White House Because the president had stayed up late talking with Bebe, he slept in on Sunday morning. When Kleindienst tried to phone him at 8:41 ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 22,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Levin, Jack E. [Levin, Jack E.]

The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Gessen, Masha [Gessen, Masha]

I WAS ALREADY GONE, having taken the job at U.S. News & World Report the previous summer. Before I started, I had flown to the Black Sea for a short ...
( Category: Russia September 18,2014 )