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American Lion by Jon Meacham
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Jon Meacham

CHAPTER 22 HE APPEARED TO FEEL AS A FATHER “UNCLE’S HEALTH IS as usual,” Emily wrote her mother in the spring of 1833. He was, she said, “often complaining.… He ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
A Secret Life by Charles Lachman
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Charles Lachman

I have read the statement published in the Buffalo Telegram [sic] of the date of _____, concerning myself and Mr. Cleveland, a statement which is largely false and malicious. Shortly ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Wilson by A. Scott Berg
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:A. Scott Berg

13 ISAIAH The Spirit of the Lord God is vpon me, because the Lord hath anointed me, to preach good tidings vnto the meek, hee hath sent me to binde ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Truman by David McCullough
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-25 | Author:David McCullough

Truman, President in his own right, and Vice President Alben Barkley on the reviewing stand, Inauguration Day, January 20, 1949. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, by far the strongest, most ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Trotsky by Volkogonov Dmitri
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Volkogonov, Dmitri [Volkogonov, Dmitri]

Lenin's Entourage From the beginning of his revolutionary career, people were drawn to Lenin. They may have argued and quarrelled with him, but they could not ignore him. By the ...
( Category: Russia March 25,2014 )
Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked by Chris Matthews
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Chris Matthews

Winning twenty-six seats in the U.S. House of Representatives more than doubled the postwar average for the opposition party in a first presidential midterm election. It was a big victory ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street by Neil Barofsky
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-24 | Author:Neil Barofsky

WE HAD SOME moderate hope that our relations with Treasury might improve after Kashkari stepped down in late April. He was gracious in his departure, stopping by our Gallatin conference ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt
mobi |eng | 2006-10-17 | Author:Anthony Everitt

XIV SHOWDOWN 32–31 B.C. * * * In early 32 B.C., it became obvious to everyone that Antony and Cleopatra had made an important and highly controversial decision. She was ...
( Category: Rome March 25,2014 )
Official and Confidential by Anthony Summers
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Anthony Summers

25 ‘Hoover passed along gossip to the President he served, and that practice could raise questions in a President’s mind. What did Hoover know about him? In theoretical terms, that ...
( Category: Leadership March 25,2014 )
No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington by Condoleezza Rice
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Condoleezza Rice

Being served a strawberry drink in Dubai during a visit with Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates and a member of the ruling family. ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2009-08-19 | Author:Robert A. Caro

THERE WAS ANOTHER possible explanation as well. For more than a month before the first primary, unprecedented amounts of money had been devoted to persuading voters that Coke Stevenson had ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
mobi, epub |eng | 1982-01-02 | Author:Robert A. Caro

IF HE HAD THE VOTES, debate—even the limited debate permitted under the unanimous consent agreement—could only hurt, could allow opponents to realize what he was up to, could give Knowland ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1982-01-27 | Author:Robert A. Caro

IF MEN, even men who had long known Lyndon Johnson, now became aware of new dimensions of his “gift”—his ability not only to meet but move the public—they became aware ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
The Last Lion - Winston Churchill - Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester
mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:William Manchester

By July 14, Hitler’s eastern army (Ostheer) had established its bridgehead across the Don at Voronezh, but it had taken Army Group B’s Fourth Panzer Division a week to take ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
Desert Queen by Janet Wallach
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-07-12 | Author:Janet Wallach

As successful as the alliance was with Fahad Bey, relations with colleagues in Cairo had hit a snag. In accord with the letters between Henry McMahon and the Sharif Hussein, ...
( Category: Saudi Arabia March 25,2014 )

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