Americas
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-20 | Author:Andrew Ross Sorkin [Sorkin, Andrew Ross]

John Mack pulled out his cell phone the moment he left the New York Fed Building to report back to the office. “Guys, it’s going to be a long night,” ...
( Category: Economics April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Christopher Simpson

* The Nazis had pledged to wipe out the existing social structure in these countries in order to increase German Lebensraum (“living space”), and were thus much less willing to ...
( Category: World April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-25 | Author:Tomislav Sunic [Sunic, Tomislav]

In the Land of Hypermoralism Puritanism played the starring role in so far that it introduced into American political behavior a high level of hypermoralism and self-serving messianism. The German ...
( Category: Philosophy April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Anne Helen Petersen

VOLUME FIVE BROKEN BY THE SYSTEM At the peak of the studio system, Hollywood stardom was engineered to be every girl’s fantasy: the glamour, the clothes, the handsome costars. And ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 11,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Andress

The Bounty stayed at Tahiti for five months, far longer than originally planned, as the delay of the failed rounding of the Horn meant it now had to ride out ...
( Category: Europe April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Claire Gaudiani

She went so far in her piece as to assert “that ‘missionaries’ were needed among the idle rich [ladies] more than among any other class of citizens” to ensure that ...
( Category: Women's Studies April 11,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2015-09-01 | Author:Robert Wuthnow

Pushback By the turn of the millennium, then, anyone casually familiar with polls about religion would have known at least three indisputable facts. First, evangelicals, more so than mainline Protestants ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 11,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:Edward Dolnick [Dolnick, Edward]

High in the mountains, mission nearly accomplished, the gold-seekers paused for breath. Langworthy was drunk on scenery and accomplishment. “Bewildered and lost amidst the boundless expanse,” he gazed in awe ...
( Category: Americas April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-04 | Author:Ross, Jack; [Ross, Jack]

Along with the less inflamed Farmer-Labor leaders, Norman Thomas, who indicated his openness to working with Long for the cause of the Southern tenant farmers, probably shared this view.95 But ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 11,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Ronald C. White Jr. [Jr., Ronald C. White]

Russell, known to be disdainful of everything not English, left his first encounter with Lincoln “agreeably impressed with his shrewdness, humor, and natural sagacity.” The clock was running down at ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-21 | Author:Burdick, Kim Rogers [Burdick, Kim Rogers]

British general James Grant took an alternative road to Chadds Ford and marched at sunset “by a bye road to Hokerson Meeting House—Quaker meeting 4 miles’ distance” and encamped along ...
( Category: Americas April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-15 | Author:Ronald C White & Jr. [Ronald C White & Jr.]

LINCOLN WAS NOT PREPARED to deal with the crisis of Fort Sumter at the beginning of his presidency. He had determined in Springfield to preserve the Union without war, and ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Thomas Winslow Hazlett

Source: John McMillan, Selling Spectrum Rights, 8 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES 145 (Summer 1994), 146. Economists took pride in their efforts. “I find strong evidence that the auction design was ...
( Category: Skills April 11,2018 )
epub | | | Author:Heather Cox Richardson

In the 1920s, college educations, refrigerators, and leisure time did not reach far beyond the men who congratulated themselves on their prosperous country. People in rural areas, whose front doors ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey S. Gurock

Jewish Institutional Migration from Harlem, 1917–1930. 7 The Scattering of the Harlem Jewish Community, 1917–1930 In 1929, N. Davidoff, chairman of Branch No. 2 of the Arbeter Ring—his first name ...
( Category: Americas April 11,2018 )