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The New York Times Disunion by Ted Widmer
epub |eng | 2013-06-16 | Author:Ted Widmer

( Category: Americas June 17,2017 )
Philanthropy in America by Zunz Olivier
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-06-16 | Author:Zunz, Olivier

Early Philanthropic Investment in Civil Rights At the start of the 1960s, the halting pace of the federal government’s response to the civil rights movement created an opening for liberal ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 17,2017 )
The Forty Years War by Len Colodny
epub |eng | 2009-06-16 | Author:Len Colodny

The next time you see Dr. Fritz Kraemer I would appreciate it if you would ask him on a totally confidential basis to write me, for my eyes only, a ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 17,2017 )
Beneath the Neon by Matthew O'Brien
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew O'Brien [O'Brien, Matthew]

“Then she called me at one o’clock in the morning,” said Gwen, “and told me that she’d found him.” “How long have you been on the streets?” I asked Tyrone. ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 17,2017 )
The Secret Team by L. Fletcher Prouty
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:L. Fletcher Prouty

“General Smith . . . wanted a daily intelligence report that he could hand to the President which would succinctly summarize in a very few pages the important developments in ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 17,2017 )
The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery Behind the Photo That Ended World War II by Lawrence Verria & George Galdorisi
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Lawrence Verria & George Galdorisi [Verria, Lawrence & Galdorisi, George]

20-2. The bridge of Glenn McDuffie’s nose appears narrower than the kissing sailor’s in Lieutenant Jorgensen’s photograph. (Permission granted by Dr. Norman Sauer) McDuffie’s nose is not the only physical ...
( Category: Military June 17,2017 )
'1920 by David Pietrusza
epub |eng | 2011-02-27 | Author:David Pietrusza

Rumors also swirled around other women: forty-three-year-old Mrs. Annette A. Adams, the first female Assistant United States Attorney General; Chicago’s fifty-nine-year-old Elizabeth Merrill Bass (“a woman of culture and accomplishments”), ...
( Category: Americas June 17,2017 )
Shot All to Hell by Mark Lee Gardner
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Lee Gardner

A flood of telegrams came over the wires with reports of the capture and descriptions of the robbers. One telegram received by the Saint Paul Dispatch read: ST. PETER, MINN., ...
( Category: Americas June 17,2017 )
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner
epub |eng | 1988-01-15 | Author:Eric Foner [Foner, Eric]

“Power from Without” The President, forced to cope with Southern violence, had been elected on the slogan “Let Us Have Peace.” While Ulysses S. Grant had clearly identified himself with ...
( Category: Americas June 17,2017 )
The Making of Global Capitalism by Sam Gindin & Leo Panitch
mobi |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Sam Gindin & Leo Panitch

10 The New Imperial Challenge: Managing Crises There is nothing like a crisis to clarify things. Even if the discourse of neoliberalism obscured how much states were playing a crucial ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 17,2017 )
The California Naturalist Handbook by Greg de Nevers
epub |eng | | Author:Greg de Nevers

Urban and agricultural landscape, Sonoma County. Vineyards, orchards, pastures, reservoirs, and roads penetrate and replace oak woodlands. Dense industrial and housing development on the flat valley margins. Animals and plants ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 17,2017 )
Code Talker by Chester Nez
epub |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Chester Nez

CHAPTER THIRTEEN We Must Take Mount Austen December 1942 to February 1943: Guadalcanal The entire 1st Marine Division fought two enemies: exhaustion and the Japanese. Battle-weary guys shuffled along like ...
( Category: Military June 17,2017 )
The First Scientific American by Joyce Chaplin
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Joyce Chaplin

HIS DECISION to stay in London meant that he remained at the heart of an expanding empire, which daily offered up new opportunities in the sciences and just about everything ...
( Category: Americas June 17,2017 )
The Hollywood Economist 2.0 by Edward Jay Epstein
epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:Edward Jay Epstein [Epstein, Edward Jay]

PART IV HOLLYWOOD POLITICS IN THE PICTURE In November 2009, Oliver Stone literally put me in the picture. I was seated at an oval table under an eerie light in ...
( Category: Skills June 17,2017 )
One Minute To Midnight by Michael Dobbs
epub |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Michael Dobbs [Michael Dobbs]

These were hardly abstract questions. The president and his aides had explored the pros and cons of a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union, often in the context of ...
( Category: Americas June 17,2017 )

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