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Phenomena by Annie Jacobsen
epub |eng | 2017-03-27 | Author:Annie Jacobsen

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Killers and Kidnappers On March 30, 1981, just seventy days after becoming president, Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured in an assassination attempt in Washington, D.C. As ...
( Category: Military June 21,2017 )
A Nation Without Borders by Steven Hahn
epub |eng | 2016-10-14 | Author:Steven Hahn

CHAPTER NINE Capitalism A formidable armory constructed in New York City for the Seventh Regiment after the War of the Rebellion, 1868. Wheels of Capital Among the economic beneficiaries of ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution by Ganesh Sitaraman
epub |eng | 2017-03-13 | Author:Ganesh Sitaraman

THE GLORIOUS YEARS The New Deal and World War II ushered in an era of middle-class growth and economic equality, which economists Claudia Goldin and Robert Margo have called “the ...
( Category: Sociology June 21,2017 )
Rum Curious by Fred Minnick
epub |eng | 2017-06-20 | Author:Fred Minnick

DIPLOMÁTICO AMBASSADOR, 47% ABV, VENEZUELA FINISHED IN PEDRO XIMÉNEZ BARRELS AROMA: Cherry, black currant, vanilla, caramel, marzipan, and chocolate PALATE: My first thought is that this is a mouthful of ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine June 21,2017 )
Who Killed These Girls? by Beverly Lowry
epub |eng | 2016-10-10 | Author:Beverly Lowry

Abreo keeps repeating the question, until Mike finally gives him what he’s after: They were gagged. Abreo: Yes. Mike: But I don’t know with what. Yes, he does, Abreo tells ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
The Rise of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis
epub |eng | | Author:Jefferson Davis [Davis, Jefferson]

I will now make the promised extracts from reminiscences of Colonel (then Captain) Lay, which were sent to a friend, and handed to me for my use. The paper bears ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
Young Mr. Obama by Edward McClelland
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-20 | Author:Edward McClelland

Chapter 9 DEFEAT W H I L E O B A M A ’ S P A T H T O P O W E R had gone through Columbia ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
The Plutonium Files by Eileen Welsome
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Eileen Welsome [Welsome, Eileen]

31 THE INVERTED MUSHROOM A young Army lieutenant shepherded his platoon into a trench 1,700 yards behind the officer volunteers on the morning that Shot Simon was being readied for ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 21,2017 )
A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-06-20 | Author:Simon Winchester

19. Eadweard Muybridge – born in London as Edward Muggeridge – lugged thirteen cameras to the turreted roof of Mark Hopkins’s uncompleted mansion on the 900-foot summit of Nob Hill, ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
The Escape Artists by Scheiber Noam
epub |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Scheiber, Noam [Scheiber, Noam]

There were others who would have a say in the outcome of financial reform—the U.S. Congress for one. Still, if the House and Senate were the only obstacles standing between ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 21,2017 )
Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Dean King [King, Dean]

Riley searched the horizon. He saw nothing. The other sailors could not make out any sign of a rider either, but Hamet looked delighted as he altered their course to ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 21,2017 )
Jet Age by Sam Howe Verhovek
epub |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Sam Howe Verhovek

Johnston was on his way to an interview with the Boeing Airplane Company, where he would soon become a test pilot for both the B-47 Stratojet and the forthcoming B-52 ...
( Category: Transportation June 20,2017 )
The Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-30 | Author:Matthew Josephson

CHAPTER TWELVE Certain Industrialists Arose THE very outcries of the underlying population during the late 1870’s and the 1880’s, of workers who found their wages being reduced, of farmers in ...
( Category: Americas June 20,2017 )
History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
mobi |eng | 2004-08-05 | Author:D. Augustus Dickert

* * * MAJOR WILLIAM M. GIST. * * * Major William M. Gist was a son of Governor W.H. Gist, the Governor just preceding Secession, and Mrs. Mary E. ...
( Category: Americas June 20,2017 )
The National Dream by Pierre Berton
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-08-13 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

* Though the British Columbians blamed Blake for this smear, it was actually the British Colonist that first spoke of the route through which the railway would run as “a ...
( Category: Americas June 20,2017 )

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