United States
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Tony Horwitz

FROM HIS OLIVE SKIN and unusual surname, I’d guessed that the pharmacist Joe Gerache was of southern European extraction. But when I arrived at his home in suburban Vicksburg, I ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Hampton Sides

Narbona’s sons believed the old man was already on the path. “You’ve gone away from us now,” they chanted. “You’ve gone away by yourself.” Having slaughtered the horses and left ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Jonathan D. Sarna

Sneersohn knew how to attract attention to his cause. Rather than dressing in traditional East European Hasidic clothing (which might have been exotic enough), he always appeared in public looking ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Sally Jenkins; John Stauffer

From representations made to us we had expect[ed] to find [irregular] organizations among the disloyal for the purpose of resisting our authority. During the first five days operations we obtained ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Zinn, Howard [Zinn, Howard]

Ten military advisers are attached to the Sonsonate armed forces... The episode contains all the unchanging elements of the Salvadoran tragedy— uncontrolled military violence against civilians, the apparent ability of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:H. W. Brands

New York receives the news of Fisk’s death with mixed emotions. Horace Greeley lectures Wall Street and America for having produced such a sorry specimen of humanity. “Fiction furnishes few ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Rosina Harrison

7 The Astor Family As I was afraid I would when I began, I have given the impression that we served only one person, Lady Astor. This isn’t true and ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:John Milton Cooper

On November 7, when the returns came in, Wilson thought he might have to implement the plan. On election day, he and Edith drove to Princeton, where he voted once ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Richard Brookhiser

CHAPTER SEVEN In Power When James Madison first arrived in Washington in the spring of 1801, it was nowhere. The federal government had moved to its latest site in the ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Amity Shlaes

Eleven: The Siege and the Spruce Washington, D.C. WHAT JUMPED OUT WAS the number. It was $1,841,759,316.80, the total income tax revenues for the fiscal year that had ended in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |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 ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )