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Coach Wooden and Me by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
epub |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Dear Mrs. Hough, The comments of this most unusual young man also disturbed me, but I have seen him hurt so much by the remarks of white people that I ...
( Category: Basketball June 21,2017 )
Secret Service Dogs by Maria Goodavage
epub |eng | 2016-10-06 | Author:Maria Goodavage

CHAPTER 11 DRIVE The Secret Service goes shopping for dogs in Denver, Indiana, population 471. It’s an eleven-hour drive from RTC when pulling a ten-dog trailer. That’s with just one ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care June 21,2017 )
A Square Meal by Jane Ziegelman
epub |eng | 2016-06-23 | Author:Jane Ziegelman

Hunger marchers preparing food on a mobile stove, Washington, D.C. (Authors’ collection) During the first weeks of the Bonus Army’s encampment, Chief Glassford tried to find some organization that would ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference June 21,2017 )
The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy
epub |eng | 2016-10-10 | Author:Tara Clancy

Once a year, usually sometime after we finished dessert, I’d work up the nerve to ask Mark, “So, what was it like in your house, as a kid, growing up?” ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
How to Survive a Plague by David France
epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:David France

4 Against Nature Peter Staley’s health didn’t improve after his failure with AZT, and the markets continued to vex him following Black Monday. It seemed that his whole life was ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources June 21,2017 )
Eyes on the Street by Robert Kanigel
epub |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Robert Kanigel

A New York Herald Tribune writer observed that “although Mrs. Jacobs disowns impressing her ideas on the plan…[West Village Houses] meets most of her published objections to renewal plans in ...
( Category: Specific Groups June 21,2017 )
From Resistance to Revolution by Pauline Maier
epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Pauline Maier [Maier, Pauline]

PART THREE FROM RESISTANCE TO REVOLUTION CHAPTER SIX THE INTERNATIONAL SONS OF LIBERTY AND THE MINISTERIAL PLOT, 1768–1770 [I] THE AMERICANS WERE NOT DEDICATED to overthrowing the King’s authority at ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
Spies in the Family by Eva Dillon
epub |eng | 2017-04-02 | Author:Eva Dillon

Dmitri and Nina Polyakov had arrived in Delhi a few weeks before us. His office was at the Soviet embassy, within a compound whose parks and landscaped boulevards were a ...
( Category: Russia June 21,2017 )
Scars of Independence by Holger Hoock
epub |eng | 2017-05-08 | Author:Holger Hoock

Mobilizing greater numbers of blacks, such as for the defense of Savannah, was part of a new British strategy that had been triggered by dramatic changes in the war’s international ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
American Revolutions by Alan Taylor
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Taylor

Slaves The heated debates over representation exposed a second, even more dangerous fault line between northern and southern states. Slaves comprised less than 4 percent of the northern population compared ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
Thunder at the Gates by Douglas R Egerton
epub |eng | 2016-09-20 | Author:Douglas R Egerton

AS THE MEN SORTED OUT THEIR EMOTIONS THE MORNING AFTER Smith’s execution, they all assumed that they were in for a quiet, lengthy stay in northern Florida. Literally without loss ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
Brothers at Arms by Larrie D. Ferreiro
epub |eng | 2016-11-14 | Author:Larrie D. Ferreiro

THE ARRIVAL OF THE EXPÉDITION PARTICULIÈRE AT NEWPORT On May 10, 1780, the same day that Lafayette informed Washington of the approach of Ternay’s Expédition Particulière, a British frigate docked ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America by Brion McClanahan
epub |eng | 2015-12-25 | Author:Brion McClanahan

THE NIXON SHOCK Following World War II, the United States and its industrial Western allies had signed an agreement known as Bretton-Woods. It created the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
Nixon's White House Wars by Patrick J. Buchanan
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-05-08 | Author:Patrick J. Buchanan

On January 20, 1971, at midpoint in his first term, Nixon wrote a memo to Haldeman showing his frustration, anger, and indignation at what I had written in “Neither Fish ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jeff Guinn

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX CONSEQUENCES Jones’s soft public words aside, the Gang of Eight defections left him determined to exert even more control over his followers. That kind of betrayal wouldn’t happen ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 21,2017 )

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