mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Steve Coll

26. AMERICA IN MOTION THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION of 1979 cast thousands of privileged Persians into exile. Many gathered in Los Angeles, where they poured their agitations into business. First-and second-generation ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Donald Rumsfeld

Unless and until senior users take time to engage analysts, question their assumptions and methods, seek from them what they know, what they don’t know and ask them their opinions—and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-22 | Author:Donald Rumsfeld

Don’t do or say things you would not want to see on the evening news. It is best to assume that everything you or your organization has done, is doing, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1993-01-10 | Author:Margaret Thatcher

SDI President Reagan’s Strategic Defence Initiative, about which the Soviets and Mr Gorbachev were already so alarmed, was to prove central to the West’s victory in the Cold War. Although, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

CHAPTER XXI I AM LIKE RIPE SHIT HEN Martin Luther proclaimed his theses at Wittenberg he was announcing, too, the triumph of his own self-awareness. The era of Protestantism, as ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

I find this pardon pardons not … In a country so recently torn by war, there was of course a crying need for a new kind of social policy, or ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alison Weir

15 ‘A Great and Strong Labour’d Woman’ ‘The Queen’, wrote a Paston correspondent, ‘is a great and strong labour’d woman, for she spareth no pain to sue her things to ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Charles Moore [Moore, Charles]

Hunt recommended asking the Chancellor to say what the consequences of higher public spending would be for GDP and for interest rates. His proposed way of ‘steering’ the discussion was ...

azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Sharpton, Al [Sharpton, Al]

13 * * * PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH My social activism is my religion in practice. It is the daily embodiment of my lifelong service to God. As a Christian, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-28 | Author:Francis Wheen [Karl Marx ]

This absurd interlude began with a chance remark by the radical author Karl Blind, who shared the platform with Marx at an anti-Russian rally organised by the Urquhartites in May ...

epub |eng | 1983-05-29 | Author:William Manchester [Manchester, William]

Russia was mobilizing against Austria-Hungary. Germany, as Austria’s ally, therefore proclaimed a “threatening state of war.” At midnight on Thursday, July 30, the kaiser demanded the Russians demobilize at once, ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Thatcher, Margaret [Thatcher, Margaret]

In that election campaign, defence would be of great political importance. Yet I had no doubt that the result would ultimately depend on the economy. Our economic course had already ...

epub, mobi | | | Author:Nelson Mandela [Mandela, Nelson]

50 AT THE FORT I was being supervised by Colonel Minnaar, a courtly Afrikaner considered something of a liberal by his more verkrampte (hard-line) colleagues. He explained that he was ...

epub |eng | 2005-06-15 | Author:Robert Service [Service, Robert]

32. THE CULT OF IMPERSONALITY The Lenin cult glistened like a film of oil over the dark ocean of Soviet reality in the late 1930s. Stalin had always presided over ...