Presidents & Heads of State
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Caroline Kennedy; Michael Beschloss

Less than a hundred. Less than a hundred. But he said that in all—and I think he said it all through his Senate campaign.27 He certainly said it all through ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Beck, Glenn [Beck, Glenn]

October 20, 1781 Yorktown General Cornwallis knew that this would be one of the most painful days of his esteemed life. Surrendering to the enemy was simply unimaginable. He would ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Laura Bush

When the Taliban seized Kabul, they closed the university. Ten thousand students, including four thousand women, could no longer study. Schools for boys suffered too, because the majority of teachers ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Ronald Reagan

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 March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:David Mccullough

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 March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Janny Scott

Seven Community Organizing The village of Ungaran was a speck in the mountains above the port of Semarang on the north coast of Central Java. A two-lane road between Semarang ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-06 | Author:Andrew Roberts

When the two sides resumed their meeting at 3 p.m., the Combined Chiefs of Staff had before them a draft note setting out tentative agreements. A deal had been brokered ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

ISHII KNEW HE was in deep trouble. No one, not even the emperor, could save him or even think of lifting a finger. He was on his own, the target ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Michael Korda

Inaction, overwhelming responsibilities for which he was unsuited, and some doubt about what to do next were certainly part of the problem, but worse was to come. Up until then ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Eric Foner

7 “Forever Free”: The Coming of Emancipation EVEN AS THE ARMY of General George B. McClellan embarked on the Peninsular campaign, a military commander with a very different political outlook ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Wilber, Del Quentin [Wilber, Del Quentin]

DOCTORS GIORDANO, GENS, and Price watched saline solution drain from the catheter into a small plastic container. The liquid was crystal clear. The belly tap seemed to confirm that Reagan ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Ron Chernow

PART FOUR The Statesman Bust of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon, sculpted in 1785. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT American Celebrity WITH PERFECT TIMING, George Washington made it home to the loving embrace ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-29 | Author:David McCullough

• • • UNTIL A SUITABLE HOUSE could be found, the three Adamses were residing in the Bath Hotel in Piccadilly, where, after the quiet of Auteuil, the noise of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

ETIQUETTE AND EMULATION “We are most delightfully situated,” Abigail explained to her sister. “The prospect around us is Beautiful in the highest degree, it is a mixture of sublime & ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-10-25 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

CHASE, UNLIKE LINCOLN, was never able to forgo his statesmanlike persona and simply enjoy conversations and lighter amusements. He was inclined to let things fester, brooding over perceived slights and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )