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Blood Feud: The Hatfields & The McCoys by Lisa Alther
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Lisa Alther [Alther, Lisa]

Devil Anse Hatfield’s younger brother, Good Elias, the reluctant feudist, was indicted but never arrested or tried for the Pawpaw Murders. Although Devil Anse’s grandson Coleman A. Hatfield felt that ...
( Category: Americas April 7,2018 )
American Aristocrats by Harry S. Stout
epub |eng | 2017-11-01 | Author:Harry S. Stout

The country to which they go, has many things to render it preferable to this; and after a few years I hope that they will be convinced that they have ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
Nixon, Volume II by Stephen E. Ambrose
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN THE TENTH CAMPAIGN September–December 1970 AT THE BEGINNING of the campaign season in 1970, James Reston wrote a piece on the mood of the electorate. He said that ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
MAKING THE UNIPOLAR MOMENT by Hal Brands
epub |eng | 2016-04-13 | Author:Hal Brands

The Travails of Counterterrorism The issues posed by Middle Eastern terrorism proved no less troublesome. Taking office in the wake of the Iran hostage crisis, Reagan had staked out a ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 7,2018 )
A New America by Tommy Mottola
epub |eng | 2016-09-28 | Author:Tommy Mottola

CHAPTER NINE The Latin Explosion There was this Latin Explosion thing between me and Ricky Martin, and Enrique Iglesias and Marc Anthony. And all of us were kind of making ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 6,2018 )
Winners & Losers by Gloria Emerson
epub |eng | | Author:Gloria Emerson

IN VIETNAM THEY all knew the name of the book; no man was so dull he did not recognize the shorthand of Catch-22 even if he had not read the ...
( Category: Military April 6,2018 )
Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois
epub |eng | 2012-04-19 | Author:W. E. B. Du Bois [Bois, W. E. B. Du]

VI OF THE RULING OF MEN THE RULING of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 6,2018 )
California Apricots by Robin Chapman
epub |eng | 2013-04-06 | Author:Robin Chapman

A vintage postcard of Stanford University, founded in 1891. Tuition there was free until the 1930s. Author’s collection. Their youngest son, J. Gilbert Smith, born in 1876, became a carpenter ...
( Category: Industries April 6,2018 )
Canadian Corps Soldier vs Royal Bavarian Soldier by Stephen Bull & Adam Hook
epub |eng | 2016-01-08 | Author:Stephen Bull & Adam Hook

German troops take a rest from consolidating ‘stormed trenches’, Fresnoy Park, c.1915. From 0300hrs on 7 May the Germans shelled ‘all lines heavily’, and again the bombardment went on all ...
( Category: Military April 6,2018 )
A Slave No More by David W. Blight
epub |eng | | Author:David W. Blight

In 1865 John Washington buried his infant son, Johnnie, in the free soil of the District of Columbia, and Wallace Turnage followed a Maryland regiment back to the now free ...
( Category: Americas April 6,2018 )
Two Days in June by Andrew Cohen
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Andrew Cohen [Cohen, Andrew]

Before the burning monk, there had been no reason to discuss Vietnam with Rusk that morning. Although the Buddhists had been protesting there for weeks, Kennedy had not thought the ...
( Category: Historical April 6,2018 )
A First Class Temperament by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

Sources: Jonathan Daniels, Washington Quadrille, page 145; Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, page 226; New York Review of Books, April 15, 1982. 34. “Eleanor could be hard,” her close ...
( Category: Historical April 6,2018 )
Embattled Nation by Patrice Dutil
epub |eng | 2017-09-13 | Author:Patrice Dutil

a press imbued with anti-national sentiments [Drapeau was thinking of Le Devoir] was permitted to carry out a seditious campaign which has had the effect of falsifying the ideas of ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 6,2018 )
Shot in Alabama: A History of Photography, 1839–1941, and a List of Photographers by Robb Frances Osborn
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Robb, Frances Osborn [Robb, Frances Osborn]

( Category: Regional U.S April 6,2018 )
Nixon, Volume III by Stephen E. Ambrose
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

* * * I. In the White House version, when Nixon complains that the bug in the DNC produced nothing, Colson replies, “Well, frankly we did,” followed by a pause ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 6,2018 )

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