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The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia by Rick Porrello
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Porrello

CHAPTER SEVEN The Ascendancy of the Mayfield Road Mob On June 30, 1930, Joe Porrello’s desire to attain the political power he lacked was well on its way to fulfillment. ...
( Category: True Crime July 11,2018 )
The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-07-09 | Author:Seymour Hersh [Seymour Hersh]

The president’s technique in superpower confrontations would become ingrained by the Cuban missile crisis in late 1962. The president would speak with resolve to his aides and in public, but ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 10,2018 )
The Freemasons in America by H. Paul Jeffers
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-07-09 | Author:H. Paul Jeffers

On the obverse is an eagle whose dexter wing has thirty-two feathers, the number of ordinary degrees in Scottish Rite Freemasonry. The sinister wing has thirty-three feathers, the additional feather ...
( Category: Americas July 10,2018 )
Jefferson County Egan Murders, The: Nightmare on New Year's Eve 1964 (True Crime) by Shampine Dave & Boyer Daniel T
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Shampine, Dave & Boyer, Daniel T. [Shampine, Dave]

Murder suspect Joseph R. Leone in custody at the Jefferson County Jail, guarded by Deputies Raymond Pacific (left) and Gordon Barker. Likewise for Joe Amedeo. “I would never have thought ...
( Category: Americas July 10,2018 )
Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields by Jeff Shaara
epub |eng | 2006-04-24 | Author:Jeff Shaara [Shaara, Jeff]

The USS Cairo THOUGH HOUSED WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE PARK, THE Cairo is not technically a participant in the siege of Vicksburg. But it is one of the most ...
( Category: Americas July 10,2018 )
Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion by Harold Holzer
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Harold Holzer [Holzer, Harold]

But Lincoln surely knew who bore the principal guilt for the scandal. When, late in September, the persistent “Chevalier” brazenly petitioned the president for a pass to accompany a naval ...
( Category: Americas July 10,2018 )
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Kendi Ibram X
azw3 |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Kendi, Ibram X. [Kendi, Ibram X.]

AN ARMISTICE SIGNED on November 11, 1918, ended the fighting in World War I. It took six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference for colonial powers to come ...
( Category: Americas July 10,2018 )
One Hell of a Gamble by Aleksandr Fursenko
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Aleksandr Fursenko

“We Don’t Need Cuba” Some more ominous news reached Khrushchev at the end of the month. The September crisis was turning up evidence of widespread dissatisfaction in the ranks of ...
( Category: Military July 9,2018 )
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Kennedy Elizabeth Lapovsky & Davis Madeline D
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-05-09 | Author:Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky & Davis, Madeline D. [Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky]

The negative reactions in the 1950s to those who were ki-ki stem from the fact that such people disrupted the butch-fem social order. Those who maintained their roles felt that ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 9,2018 )
Finding Franklin by Potter Russell A.;
epub |eng | 2016-07-08 | Author:Potter, Russell A.;

Schwatka’s plan took advantage of the small size of his party, requiring only a modest amount of equipment beyond what could be obtained once they arrived; he planned to travel ...
( Category: World July 9,2018 )
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-23 | Author:Heather Ann Thompson

41 A Long Journey Ahead In the wake of their embarrassing defeat in the trial of Bernard “Shango” Stroble, Attica Special Prosecutor Anthony Simonetti and his stable of prosecutors lost ...
( Category: Americas July 9,2018 )
Northland by Porter Fox
epub |eng | | Author:Porter Fox

9 THE BOUNDARY WATERS WAS THE EDGE OF THE WORLD IN EARLY AMERICA. Étienne Brûlé and Jean Nicolet ended their missions across the northland at Lake Superior. La Salle’s journey ...
( Category: Americas July 9,2018 )
The McDavid Effect by Marty Klinkenberg
epub |eng | | Author:Marty Klinkenberg

A FRUITFUL HOCKEY CAREER IS a collection of moments strung together by the physical feats they require and the objects involved in making them happen. The sweater worn for a ...
( Category: Regional Canada July 9,2018 )
Don't Make Me Pull Over! by Richard Ratay
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Ratay

* * * I. The Orange Krate was a bike of almost indescribable beauty. It was one of Schwinn’s Sting-Ray bicycles, a line of bikes designed to resemble the top ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 8,2018 )
Stand Your Ground by Caroline Light
epub |eng | 2016-12-15 | Author:Caroline Light [Light, Caroline E.]

“THAT HAD BEEN OUR HISTORY”: THE POWER IN THE STORY The Williamses argued that the mainstream embrace of nonviolence had resulted from the fact that “the majority of white people ...
( Category: Constitutional Law July 8,2018 )

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