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Nixon's Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled President by Fulsom Don
epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Fulsom, Don [Fulsom, Don]

TWELVE WATERGATE: WHAT SECRETS WAS NIXON SEEKING? Early in the 1968 campaign, power-hungry, episodically nutty billionaire Howard Hughes—in a lucid moment and non-nuanced memo—stated his determination to elect a president ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 29,2020 )
Angler by Barton Gellman
epub |eng | 2008-01-28 | Author:Barton Gellman

Losses were not always permanent for the vice president. Nor were they obvious, because Cheney cloaked them in loyal public support. He stepped aside when Bush felt strongly, swallowing disagreements ...
( Category: United States January 29,2020 )
Mengele by David G. Marwell
epub |eng | 2019-11-10 | Author:David G. Marwell

Meeting in May Our May meeting in Frankfurt came three months after the attorney general had ordered the investigation. Much had happened in that time: two Senate hearings in the ...
( Category: World War II January 29,2020 )
Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

[Third Movement as Migration and a Flock of Birds] I don’t know why I went temporarily blind in Tijuana while waiting to cross in 1993. It didn’t happen all at ...
( Category: Authors January 28,2020 )
God, Trump, and the 2020 Election by Stephen E. Strang
epub |eng | 2019-11-24 | Author:Stephen E. Strang

TRUMP ACCORDING TO TWITTER If my interview in 2016 wasn’t a foreshadowing of the president we would see in the next four years, we got to know him in the ...
( Category: Historical January 27,2020 )
Profiles in Corruption by Peter Schweizer
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Peter Schweizer

* * * One of the most curious and mysterious elements of Bernie Sanders is the movement of funds and his efforts to obscure the flow of money, whether into ...
( Category: Performing Arts Reference January 26,2020 )
Fight of the Century by unknow
epub |eng | 2020-01-20 | Author:unknow

WEINBERGER V. WIESENFELD (1975) In Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld, the ACLU argued that the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Reed v. Reed (1971), recognizing constitutional protection against sex-based discrimination, prohibited differential ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight January 22,2020 )
Where Do We Go from Here (King Legacy) by Martin Luther King Jr
epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Martin Luther King Jr [King Jr, Martin Luther]

IV Among the forces of white liberalism the church has a special obligation. It is the voice of moral and spiritual authority on earth. Yet no one observing the history ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 22,2020 )
The Rough Guide to Southwest USA by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

Holbrook From 1886 to 1900, HOLBROOK, halfway between Gallup and Flagstaff, was the rowdy headquarters of the “Hashknife” cattle outfit, the third largest in the country. Not much seems to ...
( Category: Historical January 21,2020 )
The Winter Army by Maurice Isserman
epub |eng | | Author:Maurice Isserman

They drove ahead, remembering General Hays’s injunction, “always forward,” while leaving a trail of dead and wounded comrades. Much the same thing happened around the base of Mount Belvedere in ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing January 21,2020 )
Chumps to Champs by Bill Pennington
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Pennington

19 Lost Promise THE ASSOCIATED PRESS reporter called Bill Livesey at his Florida home on Sunday, December 19. “The guy from the AP wanted my reaction to Brien Taylor’s shoulder ...
( Category: United States January 20,2020 )
Max Eastman: A Life by Christoph Irmscher
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Christoph Irmscher [Irmscher, Christoph]

Some of Max’s identity problems were reflected in the hero of Max’s novel, Venture, a book left unfinished for years after he had first begun working on it in his ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
War: An Enquiry by A. C. Grayling
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:A. C. Grayling [Grayling, A. C.]

In the Introduction to this book, war was defined as ‘a state of armed conflict between states or nations, or between identified and organised groups of significant size and character’. ...
( Category: Violence in Society January 19,2020 )
Hypatia by Watts Edward J.;
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Watts, Edward J.;

9 The Memory of Hypatia The discordance between the type of person that Hypatia was and the brutal way in which she died explains the initial shock that many people ...
( Category: Rome January 19,2020 )
Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Lottery poster, Society of Antiquaries, London. So, in 1616, the Virginia Company again revamped its plan. The previous lotteries had been in London and were called “standing lotteries,” but now ...
( Category: Atmospheric Sciences January 19,2020 )

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