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The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942 by Hamilton Nigel
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Hamilton, Nigel [Hamilton, Nigel]

Poor Harry Hopkins, having handed over the rest of the President’s cable, now witnessed Churchill’s meltdown. Hopkins, sickly but willing to do anything for his revered president, had traveled to ...
( Category: History & Theory September 16,2014 )
Right Path : From Ike to Reagan, How Republicans Once Mastered Politics--and Can Again (9780812996159) by Scarborough Joe
epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Scarborough, Joe [Scarborough, Joe]

“As I began the new term,” Nixon recalled in his memoirs, “I had a sense of urgency about the need to revitalize the Republican Party lest the New Majority slip ...
( Category: Executive Branch September 5,2014 )
The History Buff's Guide to the Presidents by Thomas R. Flagel
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas R. Flagel [Flagel, Thomas R.]

He ran for office as an ardent anticommunist, and his inaugural address affirmed his oath to fight Marxism anytime, anywhere. After the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs, however, Kennedy ...
( Category: History & Theory August 27,2014 )
John A by Richard J. Gwyn
epub |eng | 2008-08-23 | Author:Richard J. Gwyn

That Britain might, if not actually abandon Canada, then gently but firmly pull itself back from a close embrace in order to position itself nearer to the United States, challenges ...
( Category: Canada August 24,2014 )
John A: The Man Who Made Us by Richard J. Gwyn
azw3 |eng | 2009-03-18 | Author:Richard J. Gwyn

That Britain might, if not actually abandon Canada, then gently but firmly pull itself back from a close embrace in order to position itself nearer to the United States, challenges ...
( Category: 19th Century August 24,2014 )
Clinton, Inc. by Daniel Halper
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Daniel Halper

7 The Bubble “She made, I believe, personal judgment calls that turned out to be the wrong call and it cost people their lives.” —U.S. Representative Jason Chaffetz On January ...
( Category: Leadership August 21,2014 )
Libya - The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi
epub |eng | 2012-06-27 | Author:Alison Pargeter [Pargeter, Alison]

Indeed, Qaddafi used the Lockerbie issue to portray himself as the wronged victim of Western aggression and the heroic champion of Arabs and oppressed peoples everywhere. There was no way ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State August 21,2014 )
Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Bugliosi Vincent
mobi |eng | 2008-05-17 | Author:Bugliosi, Vincent [Bugliosi, Vincent]

Back at the Homicide and Robbery Bureau, Captain Fritz focuses his questions to Oswald once again on the time of the assassination. “Did you eat lunch with anyone yesterday?” he ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 20,2014 )
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela: A Memoir by Zelda la Grange
epub |eng | 2014-06-24 | Author:Zelda la Grange [la Grange, Zelda]

8 Working with World Leaders Although Madiba appeared healthy and strong, he was not. In July 2001 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. One afternoon after having his lunch at ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State July 27,2014 )
Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi
epub |eng | | Author:Vincent Bugliosi [Bugliosi, Vincent]

With respect to shots allegedly coming from the grassy knoll, where, specifically, on the knoll do the conspiracy theorists claim the triggerman was? The consensus among theorists, including the HSCA, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 20,2014 )
HATCHEPSUT by Joyce Tyldesley
epub |eng | 2009-03-06 | Author:Joyce Tyldesley

Through her transvestism, she abrogated the destiny of womankind. She could thereby transcend her sex; she could set herself apart and usurp the privileges of the male and his claims ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State July 15,2014 )
Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi
mobi |eng | 2012-06-27 | Author:Alison Pargeter

CHAPTER 7 The Chimera of Reform Qaddafi was faced with a dilemma. Libya was deep in crisis and the Colonel desperately needed a way out. Everywhere he looked, the pressures ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State June 23,2014 )
Citizen Emperor by Philip Dwyer
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Philip Dwyer

The king’s appeal met with a limited popular response: 1,400 men joined the Hanseatic Legion as infantry and another 200 as cavalry in the first days of liberation, often supplying ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State June 23,2014 )
Two Americans by William Lee Miller
epub |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:William Lee Miller [Miller, William Lee]

Eisenhower’s version of containment contrasted itself to Truman’s by claiming to have a new approach, a New Look, at the core of which was a greater reliance on nuclear weapons ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 6,2014 )
Saddam: His Rise and Fall by Con Coughlin
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-10-17 | Author:Con Coughlin [Coughlin, Con]

By the summer of 1982 the glory Saddam had hoped to acquire from the “second Qadisiya” was fast becoming a distant memory. The brutal reversal in Iraq’s fortunes in a ...
( Category: Political June 6,2014 )

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