epub, mobi |eng | 2005-03-24 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

This admonition to Short greatly overstated George Washington’s partisanship for France, but it did not overstate—or not by much—the general American feeling that the Jacobins were making European history, and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Simon Dunstan & Gerrard Williams [Dunstan, Simon & Williams, Gerrard]

IN THE LAST days of the Nazi regime, Ernst Kaltenbrunner conducted the largest armed robbery in history against the wishes of Martin Bormann. Accordingly, he was denied an escape route ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Robert Dallek

CHAPTER 12 Crisis Manager When I ran for the Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize—nor could any man ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Jon Meacham

THIRTY-SEVEN A DEEP, DARK, AND WIDESPREAD CONSPIRACY The designs of our Cataline are as real as they are romantic. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, on Aaron Burr’s western maneuvers JEFFERSON’S WINTER WAS BRIGHTENED ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Candice Millard

PART FOUR TORTURED FOR THE REPUBLIC • CHAPTER 16 • NEITHER DEATH NOR LIFE I love to believe that no heroic sacrifice is ever lost, that the characters of men ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Lincoln, Abraham

Leadership vs. Tyranny If a state, in one instance, and a county in another, should be equal in extent of territory, and equal in the number of people, wherein is ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf | | 2010-12-01 | Author:George W. Bush

On Sunday morning, March 16, I boarded Air Force One and winged my way to the Azores Islands, a Portuguese territory about two thirds of the way from Washington to ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:David Remnick

The killing of Fred Hampton initiated the decline of the Black Panthers but became an emblematic moment in the history of race relations in Chicago. The murder thrust Bobby Rush, ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:John Ferling

Chapter 10 “Devoted to the paper and stockjobbing interest” Unbridled Partisan Warfare It is not likely that Jefferson thought the bank would be the final peg in Hamilton’s program. Washington, ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Peter Baker [Baker, Peter]

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 ...

epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Louis Auchincloss [Auchincloss, Louis]

Ten France had bought off British and Italian interests in Morocco by promising them a free hand in Tripoli and Egypt, and the French Convention with Britain of April 1904 ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Jeffrey D. Sachs [Sachs, Jeffrey D.]

Kennedy then turned to the last point. “Fourth and finally, this treaty can limit the nuclear arms race in ways which, on balance, will strengthen our Nation’s security far more ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Michael Burlingame

13 “A David Greater than the Democratic Goliath” The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) In 1860, the radical abolitionist Parker Pillsbury dismissed Lincoln as “the Kentucky clodhopper,” scoffed at his antislavery record, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Harlow Unger [Unger, Harlow]

Two weeks later, having put his papers in order and received word of his promotion to the London embassy, John Quincy set out for Paris to await Louisa and his ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-30 | Author:David Von Drehle [Drehle, David Von]

9 AUGUST Frequently that summer, a man arrived at the White House whose role in the Civil War was little known at the time and has long since been nearly ...