Historical Biographies
epub |eng | 2020-05-07 | Author:Carl Rollyson

“An Event in American Literature” In the Dallas Morning News (September 26), John Chapman observed that “it should not seem particularly strange that Faulkner, having dealt with the displacement of ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:Bob Kealing [Kealing, Bob]

The article also described how Wise managed to take the business “by the heart instead of the purse strings.” A generous helping of photographs shows Wise in front of the ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-09-22 | Author:Lynne Cheney [Cheney, Lynne]

* * * At the beginning of 1804, Jefferson was even more optimistic than usual. The Republicans, who overwhelmingly controlled both the House and Senate, had nominated him for a ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 27,2020 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Gabriel García Márquez

ON WEDNESDAY, June 16, he received the news that the government had confirmed the pension for life granted him by the Congress. He wrote his acknowledgment to President Mosquera in ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:H.L. Mencken [Fecher, Charles]

BALTIMORE, DECEMBER 27, 1942. The Christmas just past was the gloomiest of all the gloomy ones that I can recall. On the Saturday before it, December 19, August and I ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-04 | Author:Michelle McNamara

Part Two Sacramento, 2012 [EDITOR’S NOTE: The following section is an excerpt from an early draft of Michelle’s article “In the Footsteps of a Killer.”] THE WOMAN WHO SAT ACROSS ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Farquhar McHarg

THE CNT AND ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM The Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT—National Confederation of Labour) was a national anticapitalist and aggressively revolutionary-syndicalist labour union founded in Barcelona in 1910. Its foundations had ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:William McKeen

Hunter finally finished “The Great Shark Hunt” for Playboy, and it was set to run in the December issue, following the also long overdue Craig Vetter interview, which ran in ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anthony McCann

PART II The Boisterous Sea of Liberty Opening Arguments The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave, says Portland’s Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse to the world. These words ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 26,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-19 | Author:Lindsay Mattick [Mattick, Lindsay]

It was winter when the order came: The time had come to fight. Winnie posed proudly with the men for pictures to send home to their families. Harry thought for ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-05-06 | Author:Thomas Mallon

Two The Kennedy assassination is still regularly presented—to those Americans who remember it and to the large majority who don’t—as a milestone of modernity, the weekend that television news, however ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Douglass, Frederick;Kaufman, Heather L.;McKivigan, John R.; & HEATHER L. KAUFMAN

Purpose [The true object of government is] to see that all have an equal chance in the race of life. —Speech: “In Law Free; in Fact, a Slave,” April 16, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 24,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-09-15 | Author:Theo Aronson [Aronson, Theo]

King Edward VIII had made his decision two days before. On Sunday 5 December, the Prime Minister was formally told that the King would abdicate. One by one the various ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-17 | Author:Charles Spencer [Spencer, Charles]

Chapter Fifteen Pirate Prince ‘Conceive him now in a Man-of-war, with his letters of mart, well armed, victualled, and appointed, and see how he acquits himself. The more power he ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 24,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Miron Bialoszewski [Bialoszewski, Miron]

I was very moved. In those words I could hear, I remembered, my first Vespers. That is why I am writing about this. Because it is all intermeshed. Everything. My ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 22,2020 )