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The Murder of Sonny Liston by Shaun Assael
epub |eng | 2016-09-28 | Author:Shaun Assael

10. ATLANTA While Clark County voters were going to the polls on September 1, Muhammad Ali left his home in Philadelphia to fly to Atlanta for what he hoped would ...
( Category: Biographies June 21,2017 )
The Secret History of the United States by Peter Kross
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Kross

Chapter 28 The Pearl Harbor Attack On December 7, 1941, carrier-based aircraft from the approaching Japanese strike force heading for Hawaii suddenly, and without warning, attacked the American fleet based ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal June 21,2017 )
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy by Matthew Karp
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-09-11 | Author:Matthew Karp [Karp, Matthew]

In its call for direct federal intervention in Cuba, the Mercury outflanked Quitman’s private plot and mirrored the battle plan recommended by no less an aggressive expansionist than Pierre Soulé.63 ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 21,2017 )
In Trump We Trust by Ann Coulter
epub |eng | 2016-09-30 | Author:Ann Coulter

CHAPTER NINE Disabled Reporter Joins Media Effort to Create More Disabled Americans Apart from Trump’s jab at John McCain, his most notorious attack was the one on former Washington Post ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 21,2017 )
Diving off the Oregon Coast (Images of Modern America) by Hemphill Tom & Holcom Floyd
epub |eng | 2016-10-09 | Author:Hemphill, Tom & Holcom, Floyd [Hemphill, Tom]

Laurie Hannula is pictured in the early 1980s with the latest dive equipment at that time. Hannula began diving in 1977 and made a career of teaching and dive store ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
Bill Clinton by Michael Tomasky
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Tomasky

8 That Woman The murmurings started, strangely enough, on a Saturday night—a time when even in media-obsessed Washington not many people are following the news. It was January 17, 1998; ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
The True Flag by Stephen Kinzer
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Kinzer

8 What a Choice for a Patriotic American! Scion of political royalty in Ohio, obese and widely admired, William Howard Taft enjoyed a remarkable rise. At Yale he had been ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
The Perfect Pass by S. C. Gwynne
epub |eng | | Author:S. C. Gwynne

Though IWC was a small school that played at a tiny stadium, Hal pushed to play major Division II powers. But it was just this sort of great idea that ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
Chasing Space by Leland Melvin
epub |eng | 2017-04-09 | Author:Leland Melvin

8 Training for Space Normally, astronauts know when they’re going to have a significant conversation about their status because it takes place according to a timeline. For example, new classes ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics June 21,2017 )
Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans by Vicki Mayer
epub |eng | | Author:Vicki Mayer

TREME AND ORDINARY TRAUMA Another recurring feature in my research was when interviewees schooled me about New Orleans as a place. They would frequently start by telling me how New ...
( Category: Sociology June 21,2017 )
The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara Tuchman
epub |eng | 2014-06-04 | Author:Barbara Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara]

Nine The Telegram Is Sent ON JANUARY 9, 1917, at the castle of Pless on the edge of Poland, where Supreme Headquarters was maintained in three hundred rooms served by ...
( Category: Military June 21,2017 )
Richard Nixon by John A. Farrell
epub |eng | 2017-03-27 | Author:John A. Farrell

* * * *1 The list of prime movers in American politics and government who cut their teeth with Nixon includes George H. W. Bush, William Rehnquist, Alan Greenspan, Henry ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
The Case for Impeachment by Allan J. Lichtman
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-03-28 | Author:Allan J. Lichtman

CHARGES OF RUSSIAN COLLUSION AND BLACKMAIL A few days after the intelligence community released its findings, the press reported that the community had briefed both President Obama and President-elect Trump ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
Sting Like a Bee by Leigh Montville
epub |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:Leigh Montville

Her words tumbled out of his mouth. It was something to see. He spoke all twelve lines with grand emphasis and cadence. Mr. Iambic Pentameter. He described how the fight ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 21,2017 )
Bearing the Cross by David J. Garrow
epub |eng | | Author:David J. Garrow

8. Chicago and the “War on Slums,” 1965–1966 Civil rights activism in Chicago had traveled a fitful path in the years preceding Martin King’s exploration of the city in July, ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 21,2017 )

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