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The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle by Francisco Goldman
epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Francisco Goldman [Goldman, Francisco]

7 Interior Circuit Redux IN FEBRUARY 2013, Jovi suddenly left me. Throughout the fall of 2012 and into the winter of 2013, I’d flown regularly, sometimes on a weekly basis, ...
( Category: Mexico March 4,2015 )
An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Purdum Todd S
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Purdum, Todd S. [Purdum, Todd S.]

PART THREE THE SENATE 8 You Listen to Dirksen! TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1964 AFTER LYNDON JOHNSON’S WEEKLY White House breakfast meeting with the Democratic congressional leadership, his old friend Hubert ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 4,2015 )
The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York by Caro Robert A
epub |eng | 1975-03-03 | Author:Caro, Robert A

Other reformers would later describe their overriding emotion at Moses' philosophy and tactics as "shock." They had no justification for such an emotion. There was nothing new about that philosophy ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2015 )
The Real Custer by James S Robbins
epub |eng | | Author:James S Robbins [Robbins, James S.]

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE COURT-MARTIAL The Custers arrived at Fort Riley in late October 1866 to join the newly formed 7th Cavalry regiment. George was disappointed at not being named regimental commander; ...
( Category: American Civil War March 4,2015 )
Six Miles to Charleston by Bruce Orr
epub |eng | 2012-03-03 | Author:Bruce Orr

Lavinia was more concerned with her life than her soul and put her faith in the governor’s pardon more than God’s mercy. Courtesy of Kayla Orr. There are many opinions ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2015 )
A Splendid Little War by Derek Robinson
epub |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Derek Robinson [Robinson, Derek]

4 The squadron caught up on its sleep. The adjutant kept a few guards on top of the boxcars. Fifty yards from Kenny’s train, plennys dug a mass grave. They ...
( Category: Cuba March 4,2015 )
My Old Neighborhood Remembered by Avery Corman
epub |eng | | Author:Avery Corman

* * * SCHOOLYARD BASKETBALL * * * Schoolyard basketball was played continuously, on scorching summer days and on courts cleared of snow, played by day and by night with ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2015 )
Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM by Breanne Fahs
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Breanne Fahs

THE “LOWLY TOAD” Valerie spent most of the following month directing her hostilities toward Maurice Girodias, whom she continued to portray as manipulative, cruel, self-serving, and the epitome of why ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 4,2015 )
Within Arm's Length: A Secret Service Agent's Definitive Inside Account of Protecting the President by Dan Emmett
epub |eng | 2014-06-10 | Author:Dan Emmett [Emmett, Dan]

FROM CAT TO THE SHIFT When PPD absorbed CAT in 1992, everyone on CAT became members of PPD. While few of us wanted to be adopted by the detail and ...
( Category: Law Enforcement March 4,2015 )
I Feel Relatively Neutral About New York by Jory John
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jory John

ARTISTS CONCEPTION OF “ART WITHIN ART” Now imagine, if you will, that this artists rendering is inside another artists rendering. And the artist who created itwithout getting too graphic is ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2015 )
Making War to Keep Peace by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-03 | Author:Jeane J. Kirkpatrick [Jeane J. Kirkpatrick]

Safe Areas Established Although the special rapporteur had explicitly recommended the establishment of security zones in Bosnia and Herzegovina in November 1992, nearly six months passed before the Security Council ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 4,2015 )
Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences by Pelonero Catherine
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Pelonero, Catherine [Pelonero, Catherine]

PART TWO TRIALS AND JUDGMENTS The sound of screaming was repeated several times . . . then it abruptly ceased. The silence that followed, as the night suddenly stood still, ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2015 )
The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Laurie Garrett

13 The Revenge of the Germs, or Just Keep Inventing New Drugs DRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIA, VIRUSES, AND PARASITES Consider the difference in size between some of the very tiniest and the ...
( Category: Microbiology March 4,2015 )
In Search of England by Michael Wood
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-09 | Author:Michael Wood

Mounted strength: a numberless host of cavalry. Eventually the voice of protest roused the king; Not to let himself be branded thus: That his people had meekly given in to ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-28 | Author:Winston S. Churchill

At this decisive moment England’s monarchy might well have conformed to the absolutism which was becoming general throughout Europe. Events however took a different turn. The King was by no ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 4,2015 )

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