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Cassidy's Run by David Wise
epub |eng | 2000-05-09 | Author:David Wise [Wise, David ]

C H A P T E R: 14 THE BIG APPLE In June 1973, four months after he retired from the army, Cassidy got a letter from his Soviet controllers ...
( Category: Military September 2,2017 )
The Battle for America 2008 by Johnson Haynes
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Johnson, Haynes [Johnson, Haynes]

Then Reverend Wright reappeared. He was interviewed by Bill Moyers on PBS on April 25, feted at an NAACP dinner in Detroit two days later, and on Monday, April 28, ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 2,2017 )
Divided we Fail by Sarah Garland
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Garland

Chapter 18 The law offices of Teddy B. Gordon occupied a small, two-story brick building marooned among acres of parking lots and skyscrapers in downtown Louisville. The diminutive building was ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching September 2,2017 )
Taking the Stand by Alan Dershowitz
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Alan Dershowitz [Dershowitz, Alan]

Let me be clear what this means. If a defendant were convicted, after a constitutionally unflawed trial, of murdering his wife, whose body was never found, and then came to ...
( Category: Historical September 2,2017 )
No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times (Wall Street Journal Book) by Rabinowitz Dorothy
azw3 |eng | 2003-03-27 | Author:Rabinowitz, Dorothy [Rabinowitz, Dorothy]

In time, the appeals courts overturned one conviction after another. In 1997, the young New York appellate attorney Robert Rosenthal, by now one of the leading experts in these cases, ...
( Category: Criminal Law September 2,2017 )
Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA by Rizzo John
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Rizzo, John [Rizzo, John]

I voted for Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election. It was consistent with a simple—and probably overly simplistic—pattern I had followed up to then and would continue to follow ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 2,2017 )
Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch
epub |eng | 1988-09-02 | Author:Taylor Branch

During the six-week gestation of the Albany Movement, King unwittingly approached the Albany jail on an airborne path of exhaustion. He arrived home from London just as the November 1 ...
( Category: Americas September 2,2017 )
Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch
epub |eng | 1998-09-02 | Author:Taylor Branch

OF THE MANY Army Reserve officers who completed two-week summer training about midnight Friday at Fort Benning, three friends—all Negroes unsure of finding safe overnight lodging—decided to drive straight through ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 2,2017 )
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway by Most Doug
epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Most, Doug [Most, Doug]

Part Three TRAGEDIES, TRIUMPHS 10 BIDDING TO BUILD HISTORY THEY GATHERED AT 11:30 IN THE MORNING on March 20, 1895, a group of about twenty men in the small downtown ...
( Category: Americas September 2,2017 )
Red Heat by Alex Von Tunzelmann
epub |eng | | Author:Alex Von Tunzelmann

12 THE DEATH OF THE GOAT Late that April, Rafael Trujillo was sailing the waters off Barahona in his yacht, the Angelita. A group of aides was with him but, ...
( Category: Russia September 2,2017 )
The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home by Davis William C
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-16 | Author:Davis, William C. [Davis, William C.]

12. The battered bugle of the First Kentucky Brigade, like the Orphans it called to battle, vanquished, but unbeatable. (From Thompson, Orphan Brigade) 13. “Old Flintlock.” Brigadier General Roger W. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 2,2017 )
Stand for Something by John Kasich
epub |eng | 2006-05-10 | Author:John Kasich [KASICH, JOHN]

THE PRICE OF WINNING I’ll tell a story on myself, to illustrate just how much I want to win, and just how much that wanting to win can sometimes get ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 2,2017 )
Who Killed My Daughter? by Lois Duncan
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lois Duncan [Duncan, Lois]

17 WHEN I GOT BACK to Albuquerque, I learned that Brett had been trying to reach me. Donnie, who had taken the message, had not written down the phone number, ...
( Category: True Crime September 2,2017 )
A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

( Category: Historical September 2,2017 )
1812: The Navy's War by George Daughan
epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:George Daughan [Daughan, George]

ON DECEMBER 30, 1813, His Majesty’s packet Bramble, under Lieutenant Pogson, arrived at Annapolis, Maryland, from Plymouth, England, with the momentous news: Napoleon had suffered a near fatal blow at ...
( Category: Military September 2,2017 )

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