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The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange by Jan Jarboe Russell
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Jan Jarboe Russell [Russell, Jan Jarboe]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The False Passports On the morning of January 20, 1945, while Ingrid was still at sea on the MS Gripsholm, a fourteen-year-old girl, Irene Hasenberg, slept on a ...
( Category: Historical August 16,2017 )
The World Split Open by Ruth Rosen
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ruth Rosen [Rosen, Ruth]

THE FBI Both feminists and the FBI suffered from legitimate fears as well as paranoia. Activists often imagined that agents were everywhere and that the FBI viewed the women’s movement ...
( Category: Women's Studies August 16,2017 )
Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi by Timmerman Kenneth R
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-15 | Author:Timmerman, Kenneth R. [Timmerman, Kenneth R.]

13 BAITING THE TRAP As U.S. ambassador, Chris Stevens had a full plate: He was encouraging the new government to develop democratic institutions, managing the cleanup of Qaddafi’s weapons, and ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 16,2017 )
Vanishing New York by Jeremiah Moss
epub |eng | 2017-05-19 | Author:Jeremiah Moss

18 THE TROUBLE WITH TOURISTS Street art by Ivan Orama, with added graffiti, a contemporary take on the classic anti-tourism slogan. Jeremiah Moss, 2014 GROUSING ABOUT TOURISTS HAS LONG BEEN ...
( Category: Sociology August 16,2017 )
Protect, Serve, and Deport by Amada Armenta
epub |eng | | Author:Amada Armenta

THE ATTACK OF EL PROTECTOR In 2006, debates over unauthorized immigrants’ driving privileges were in full swing (see chapter 2). Undocumented residents lost eligibility for driver’s licenses in 2004 and ...
( Category: Americas August 15,2017 )
Drunks by Christopher Finan
epub |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:Christopher Finan [Finan, Christopher M.]

Bob had always pictured alcoholics as Bowery bums. Bill was no bum. It didn’t really matter whether alcoholism was a disease. Bob discovered that he wasn’t alone. The two men ...
( Category: Americas August 15,2017 )
John Grisham - 2006 The Innocent Man (Nonfiction) by John Grisham
epub |eng | 2010-03-16 | Author:John Grisham [Grisham, John]

Closing arguments began Monday morning. Nancy Shew went first for the state and plodded through a recitation of each of the prosecution’s witnesses and what had been said. Greg Saunders ...
( Category: True Crime August 15,2017 )
An Empire of Their Own by Neal Gabler
epub |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Neal Gabler [Gabler, Neal]

But there was something more than pragmatism at work. Despite their lack of social contact and their heated rivalry, the Hollywood Jews always sensed that their real adversaries were outside ...
( Category: Movies August 15,2017 )
Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care) by William Marsden
epub |eng | 2010-05-28 | Author:William Marsden [Marsden, William]

Bribery is another method Alberta has for dealing with the opposition. In 2005, Alberta tried to buy off Quebec. Quebec’s hydroelectric energy dams make the province the cleanest economy in ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 15,2017 )
Complicity by Anne Farrow Joel Lang Jenifer Frank
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Anne Farrow,Joel Lang,Jenifer Frank

The rebellion aboard the Spanish vessel Amistad, depicted here, is remembered as a victory in America’s fight against slavery. The Amistad incident, however, occurred at almost the same time as ...
( Category: Americas August 15,2017 )
Once in Golconda by John Brooks
epub |eng | | Author:John Brooks

III In April there were rumblings from the West, and resounding echoes of them in Washington. The nation’s farmers were in a state approaching open revolt. Prices paid for their ...
( Category: Investing August 15,2017 )
The Untold Journey by Natalie Robins
epub |eng | | Author:Natalie Robins

Carroll Beichman died on January 8, 2013, in Palm Springs, California, when a van struck her as she was crossing a darkly lit street. * This assumption is supported by ...
( Category: World August 15,2017 )
The Kelloggs by Howard Markel
epub |eng | 2017-08-07 | Author:Howard Markel [Markel, Howard]

The “Flavoring Department”: “Kellogg’s products win their favor through their flavor,” circa 1915 Credit 90 Will’s cereal company was his life’s work, his main source of joy, and his most ...
( Category: Nutrition August 15,2017 )
The Father of Spin by Larry Tye
epub |eng | | Author:Larry Tye

7 At the OFFICE To his clients Eddie seemed the epitome of propriety. His uniform was a three-piece suit, a soft-collared white shirt, and black shoes. The style may have ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 15,2017 )
Stanton by Walter Stahr
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Walter Stahr [Stahr, Walter]

Lincoln nominated Chase to be chief justice on December 6, 1864, and the Senate confirmed the nomination on the same day. Stanton’s aide Dana, writing to a friend a week ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 15,2017 )

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