Biographies
epub |eng | 2020-12-28 | Author:Russell Shorto

IT WAS ABOUT this time, when the organization was at its swaggering height, that Russ faced the biggest crisis of his career, if you don’t count the self-generated ones. His ...
( Category: Biographies February 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Octavia Randolph [Randolph, Octavia]

Chapter Fifteen The Lamp of Power & The Lamp of Beauty London: Spring 1861 Dearest St Crumpet––You can’t think how fusty the carriage was from Prato to Florence––but of course ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rich Cohen [Cohen, Rich]

* * * Sunday night. I-95 North. America’s bleakest highway. We drive in silence. Malaise drifts off the sixteen-wheelers. Even Micah feels it. I’m thinking about the game and all ...
( Category: Memoirs February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-11-27 | Author:Simon Matthews

9 PUNK: DEATH As an illustration of how rapidly music and fashion evolved in the ’70s, Jubilee filmed at peak punk in the spring and summer of 1977, but by ...
( Category: European History February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-26 | Author:Marney Rich Keenan

* * * 1. Montmorency County Sheriff’s Officer Charlotte Pelham written supplemental report, March 24, 1977. 2. Montmorency County Sheriff Department, Supplementary Investigation Report, March 3, 1977. 3. Retired Montmorency ...
( Category: True Crime February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-26 | Author:J.R. Elias [Elias, J.R.]

“When he talks about ‘I’m aware of other times,’” Keely argued, “honestly I think if most of the people are honest about what they’ve read or heard, we haven’t asked ...
( Category: Professional & Academic Biographies February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-11-30 | Author:Krystal Kenney [Kenney, Krystal]

Chapter 26 Visa Saga Être adulte, c’est être seul. —Jean Rostand “To be an adult is to be alone.” After losing my student visa for being a bad student and ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-01-12 | Author:Alexi Pappas [Pappas, Alexi]

* * * Luckily, as far as the outside world was concerned, Jeremy and I managed to keep our careers afloat. Jeremy was doing a good job managing Tracktown’s distribution ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-18 | Author:Stone, Gabrielle

Fuck Alcohol (I’m too old for the hangover life.) DAY FOURTEEN Remember in the Amsterdam chapter where I told you I don’t do hangovers? How it doesn’t matter if I’m ...
( Category: Memoirs February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-11-07 | Author:Norman L. Cantor [Cantor, Norman L.]

Chapter IV Professional Focus: Exploring the Path to a Reasonably Dignified Death As noted in Chapter II, my choice of an academic career was neither deliberate nor well considered. I ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-11-21 | Author:Howard Ball

DEFENDING THE MISSISSIPPI KU KLUX KLAN In fall 1977, the Mississippi ACLU’s executive director acted unilaterally and, for such a small organization, disastrously. Without any discussion with the board before ...
( Category: Historical Biographies February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-10-31 | Author:Sokphal Din [Din, Sokphal]

15 While I was away working at the youth labour camp my brother Sokbonn was caught stealing pumpkin leaves. He was eight years old and so thin that the blue ...
( Category: Historical Biographies February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-11 | Author:Molly Golubcow [Golubcow, Molly]

Chapter Eight Wendy Wendy was white as in Caucasian, but just a slightly pinker version of the gauze-colored shmattas, as my mother would call it, that she wore around her ...
( Category: Biographies February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-14 | Author:Chantal Thomas [Chantal Thomas]

MODESTY Not only did the club teach me to how to dislocate my joints, clasp my toes, walk like a crab and do the splits, it also taught me modesty. ...
( Category: Biographies February 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Eric Hobsbawm [Hobsbawm, Eric]

13 Watershed Some moments in history – the outbreaks of the two world wars, for instance – are recognizably catastrophic, like earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. There are similar moments in ...
( Category: Historical Biographies February 2,2021 )