United States
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Bret Baier & Catherine Whitney [Baier, Bret & Whitney, Catherine]

And, he might have added, the potential for destruction. CHAPTER 9 THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Randall B. Woods

IN THE LATE FALL OF 1965, THE “FABULOUS EIGHTY-NINTH,” AS THE press labeled the sitting session of Congress, adjourned. Its record of achievement was unparalleled: Medicare; Medicaid; voting rights; federal ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Richard Lowry [Lowry, Richard]

Dedication Ceremonies, by Alexander Gardner, Gettysburg, November 19, 1863 (illustrations credit 3.17) ONE account of Lincoln’s speech tells of the crowd’s distraction by a photographer hurrying to get his camera ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Gareth Dale

KARL’S CHOICE, ILONA’S TRIAL Polanyi had written The Great Transformation in the United States, and the prospect of developing his research program in that country was enticing. A particularly appropriate ...
( Category: History & Theory September 11,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:James Tertius De Kay

Over half a century later, in 1973, British investigative reporter Colin Simpson discovered that the Germans had been right. He established that nearly the whole of the Lusitania’s cargo was ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Louisa Thomas

2 IT WAS HER CAMPAIGN for his presidency—and in some ways, the campaign really was hers more than it was his. Her entertainments made “our Congress less dependent on the ...
( Category: United States August 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-04 | Author:Carolyn Marvin [Marvin, Carolyn]

The law regarding concealment repeated in the preface to the Reverend Shurtleff’s execution sermon for Sarah Simpson. Courtesy of the New Hampshire Historical Society. In the published laws of 1759 ...
( Category: United States July 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-26 | Author:Karl Jacoby

Ellis is a broker and promoter on Wall Street, and has been charged unofficially with some sharp practices in business matters, and I suppose he has the average morality or ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-02 | Author:Geoff Shepard [Shepard, Geoff]

CHAPTER 7 EVENHANDED, NONPARTISAN PROSECUTORS Equal protection of the law implies even-handed prosecutions for criminal conduct. But highly partisan WSPF prosecutors targeted Nixon’s top aides, charged them with highly questionable ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 28,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Jo Ann Jenkins

More and Better Choices If Home Is No Longer an Option While we focus on innovations to help make communities more livable and offer new solutions to help people age ...
( Category: Gerontology June 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-15 | Author:Evan Carton [Carton, Evan]

Lying prone in the tall grass, hidden from view, the men spoke little. The waiting was interminable. Only the altered shadows of the trees as the sun inched across the ...
( Category: American Civil War June 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Robert L. Beir

Chapter 15 “With a Determined Resolve” In the spring of 1940 an American code clerk named Tyler Kent was caught turning American-British diplomatic correspondence, including Roosevelt-Churchill exchanges, over to Axis ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Richard Paul [Paul, Richard]

Clyde Foster, seen here in front of the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1965, got more black workers jobs, advanced the education of more black engineering students, and cleared the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Bevin Alexander

CHAPTER 8 Calamity in Maryland Robert E. Lee had gone into the summer campaign of 1862 intending only to maneuver John Pope out of Virginia. He had been forced into ...
( Category: American Civil War April 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Raymond Chandler (Barry Day -edited by) [Chandler, Raymond]

I don’t think any of the changes made were in conflict with your basic conception. In fact, you would have had to make them yourself. I do not doubt that ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective November 3,2015 )