Americas
mobi |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Jennifer Michael Hecht

THE HISTORICAL PROBLEM CALLED RABELAIS A center of fresh doubt in these years was at the court of Margaret of Navarre. She lived from 1492 to 1549, right through the ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-12-07 | Author:Lawrence Block

The sun was down when I left her apartment, and the sky was darkening. I set out intending to walk back to my hotel, but I was breathing heavily before ...
( Category: Ethnic & Tribal June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Chuck Wills

Jack chats with his sister Pat and brother-in-law Peter Lawford, a rising movie star, at a 1959 Los Angeles Press Club dinner. The senator’s ties to Hollywood boosted his national ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1982-01-02 | Author:Robert Middlekauff

Perhaps only in a revolutionary war do soldiers go into battle with a conception of a “righteous cause” competing with an image of their own necks in a halter. These ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-04 | Author:Mitchell, Greg [Mitchell, Greg]

One task completed, Albert Parker turned to unfinished business. United for California's investigation of Democratic vote fraud had turned up a number of illegal registrants, but nowhere near enough to ...
( Category: Elections June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Christopher Kimball

FRIED BABY ARTICHOKES The secret to this recipe is forcing the artichokes open so that they produce a fan of crisply breaded leaves. When done just right, you get a ...
( Category: State & Local June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-04-08 | Author:Glenn Greenwald

The Manichean cartoons that overrode virtually all substantive and responsible debate during the Bush presidency obscured a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the president’s approach to the world. Since ...
( Category: Executive Branch June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-06-10 | Author:James M. McPherson

THE TIMING OF Lincoln’s public letters turned out to be fortuitous. Within a few days of their publication Union victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Port Hudson lifted the pall of ...
( Category: Civil War June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-01-25 | Author:Kay Bailey Hutchison

Latina Performers LATINA PERFORMERS GRAPPLED with obstacles similar to those with which African-American singers and actors contended. In the early years of Hollywood, before the advent of sound and even ...
( Category: Women in History June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:David Plouffe

9 Agony. Ecstasy. Had the Clinton campaign approached the entire primary as they did Wyoming, it probably would not have changed the ultimate outcome. But it might have. It was ...
( Category: Elections June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-23 | Author:The New York Observer

APRIL 17, 2000 BY ALEXANDRA JACOBS The Observatory; Remember the Royalton? Illustrated by Barry Blitt THE CONDÉ NAST CAFETERIA has only been open a week, but it’s already clear which ...
( Category: State & Local June 11,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-08-26 | Author:Humberto Fontova

7 The “Intellectual and Art Lover” as Book Burner and Thief Che is not only an intellectual, he was the most complete human being of our time—our era’s most perfect ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-18 | Author:Marc Thiessen

OFTEN: 15 percent SOMETIMES: 34 percent RARELY: 22 percent NEVER: 25 percent Pew combines the "often justified" with "sometimes justified" to tabulate those in favor, and "rarely justified" with "never ...
( Category: Executive Branch June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-02-15 | Author:Jeffrey A. Lockwood

A NEW KIND OF METAMORPHOSIS In his twenty-nine-page paper, Uvarov undertook what is called a taxonomic revision. In biology, the naming of species and their proper assignment to a particular ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:David M. Kennedy

16 War in the Pacific The closest squeak and the greatest victory. —George C. Marshall Jr. on the Battle of Midway During the first days of December 1941, Admiral Isoroku ...
( Category: United States June 11,2015 )