Americas
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-25 | Author:Webster, J.P. [Webster, J.P.]

A mere month later, he reported the situation as “hopeless” and claimed he had inherited a “medieval pesthouse.” He was, however, able to raise its standards to “the equivalent of ...
( Category: State & Local March 22,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:William C. Davis [Davis, William C.]

When he decided to go for Jackson, Grant had sent McClernand’s corps to Edwards’ Station on the Vicksburg & Jackson Railroad, about twenty-eight miles west of Jackson and eighteen miles ...
( Category: American Civil War March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Karen English

Jesse filled my mind—so much so I couldn’t get to sleep that night, and when morning came, I couldn’t tell if I’d done more than doze. I’d talked Mama’s ear ...
( Category: Western March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-06-02 | Author:Connie Bruck

It was remarkable, really, how smooth Wasserman’s assumption within the movie industry had been. Remarkable that the other studio heads just gave way, that in an instant he was able ...
( Category: Business March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Curtis Gathje

Clockwise from top left: Bob Hope amusing friends onstage, Liberace with Ted Straeter (the room’s bandleader), a tent card from the fall of 1971, and Dorothy Kilgallen at a charity ...
( Category: State & Local March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-17 | Author:E.N. Joy

Chapter Eighteen “Ain’t no devil in hell gonna keep me from my Lord,” were the words that played on the radio as Tamarra drove to church. She’d be a liar ...
( Category: Drawing March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marnie O. Mamminga [Marnie O. Mamminga]

The Lodge Beckons 1923–1967 “This is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.” —Willa Cather It was the heart of the camp. Low slung, dark and rambling, its ...
( Category: State & Local March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:William L. Silber

The collision between Volcker’s tight monetary policy and Reagan’s budget deficit resembled cold war brinksmanship, like Kennedy confronting Khrushchev over missiles in Cuba.38 The stakes were not nearly as ominous ...
( Category: Executive Branch March 22,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-08 | Author:Brian McGinty [McGinty, Brian]

Henry Binmore reviewed the developments of the first week of the trial in a special article for the St. Louis Missouri Republican. He thought his reporting had amounted to a ...
( Category: Americas March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 1990-03-20 | Author:Nancy Cladwell Sorel

21 Trekking North from Rome But not all women correspondents that summer of 1944 were primed to go to Normandy. When Martha Gellhorn, confined to a nurses’ training camp in ...
( Category: World War II March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:James Green [Green, James]

Chapter 12 There Can Be No Peace in West Virginia May 30–August 7, 1921 Outraged by the military autocracy Major Davis had imposed in the Williamson minefield, Harold Houston decided ...
( Category: Natural Resource Extraction March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-13 | Author:Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince [Porter, Darwin]

Reagan gave Jane permission to “date” handsome Van Johnson, with his clean-cut boy-next-door look. Perhaps Van’s gender preference for men reassured everyone that he wouldn’t pose any serious threat to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Roger Litwiller

Your airgraph letter arrived on board today. I note that the electric washing machine has been forwarded to Halifax. The procuring of this machine was indeed a praiseworthy achievement on ...
( Category: 20th Century March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:Deppisch, Ludwig M., M.D. [Deppisch, Ludwig M., M.D.]

Grace Goodhue Coolidge Grace Goodhue Coolidge, Florence Harding’s successor as first lady, was a stark contrast to her flamboyant predecessor, dissimilar in personality, in political influence, in controversy, and in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-20 | Author:Donald Critchlow [Critchlow, Donald]

Chapter 6 Gilded Age frustration and the Progressive response, 1877–1918 Self-gain, partisan loyalty, and corruption characterized politics after the Civil War at a time when United States became the world’s ...
( Category: State & Local March 21,2015 )