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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Kinzer Stephen
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Kinzer, Stephen [Kinzer, Stephen]

8 THE SELF-INTOXICATED PRESIDENT Rarely has a head of state anticipated a visit to the United States as eagerly as President Sukarno of Indonesia. American history fascinated him. As a ...
( Category: Executive Branch February 15,2015 )
American Jezebel by Eve LaPlante
epub |eng | | Author:Eve LaPlante

11 AN UNEASY AND CONSTANT WATCH “The prisoner,” as John Winthrop took to calling Anne Hutchinson that winter, saw little of her children during her house arrest. One-year-old Zuriel; Susan, ...
( Category: State & Local February 13,2015 )
Tristes Tropiques (Penguin Classics) by Levi-Strauss Claude
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Levi-Strauss, Claude [Levi-Strauss, Claude]

Fig 28. A lip ornament and earrings made of mother-of-pearl and feathers Gradually, all these people went away; we were sharing the hut, which measured approximately twelve metres by five, ...
( Category: General February 13,2015 )
My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir by Brian Turner
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Brian Turner [Turner, Brian]

76 Who can say what made Papa raise his left arm on a December morning in the Solomon Islands? What was it that caught his attention? The Marine patrol stopped, ...
( Category: Military February 13,2015 )
Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff by Christine S. Richard
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-04-26 | Author:Christine S. Richard

AS MBIA PUT one crisis behind it, storm clouds were forming over the U.S. subprime mortgage market. The subprime mortgage market had become an increasingly important part of the U.S. ...
( Category: Economics February 13,2015 )
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Annotated) by Smith Adam
azw3 |eng | 2012-08-09 | Author:Smith, Adam [Smith, Adam]

CHAPTER V . OF BOUNTIES. Bounties upon exportation are, in Great Britain, frequently petitioned for, and sometimes granted, to the produce of particular branches of domestic industry. By means of ...
( Category: Colonial Period February 13,2015 )
The Politics of Upheaval: 1935-1936, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume III: The Politics of Upheaval 1933-1936 Vol 3 by Schlesinger Jr." Arthur M
azw3 |eng | 2003-07-08 | Author:Schlesinger, Jr.", Arthur M. ["Schlesinger, Jr.", Arthur M.]

III Some of the changes of 1935 were at first hard to detect. But what was unmistakable was the change in personnel. The key figures of the First New Deal ...
( Category: United States February 13,2015 )
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-06 | Author:Tony Hsieh [HSIEH, TONY]

Growing Up “What do we want to be when we grow up?” It was a question I’d been thinking about for a while. I was at a Mexican restaurant with ...
( Category: Leadership February 13,2015 )
THE GLORY AND THE DREAM A Narrative History of America, 1932 - 1972 by William Manchester
epub |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:William Manchester [Manchester, William]

By now McLeod was distraught. Trapped between warring giants, he sought refuge in the White House. It was all a grotesque mistake, he told Adams and Persons. He had merely ...
( Category: United States February 13,2015 )
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Ferguson Niall
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-24 | Author:Ferguson, Niall [Ferguson, Niall]

TORY-ENTALISM For many British officials in India, toiling for years on end in a far-flung land, the thought of ‘home’ – not simulated in Simla, but the real thing, to ...
( Category: Great Britain February 13,2015 )
The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Friedman Thomas L
mobi |eng | 2007-07-23 | Author:Friedman, Thomas L. [Friedman, Thomas L.]

( Category: Human Geography February 12,2015 )
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Pillsbury Michael
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Pillsbury, Michael [Pillsbury, Michael]

9 A CHINA WORLD ORDER IN 2049 “The guest becomes the owner.” —The Thirty-Six Stratagems For more than two decades, the United States has been the world’s only superpower. America’s ...
( Category: Diplomacy February 11,2015 )
Decade of Nightmares by Jenkins Philip
epub |eng | 2006-02-09 | Author:Jenkins, Philip

Reaganomics Revolutions occur not because people want them to happen but because the old order is broken so definitively that it is impossible to move in any direction except forward. ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism February 10,2015 )
Bourne 3 The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum
mobi |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Robert Ludlum

Mo Panov excused himself and slid out of the booth. He made his way through the crowded highway diner toward the men’s room, frantically scanning the wall at the far ...
( Category: Espionage February 9,2015 )
Sharpe 06 Sharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

De l’Eclin opened his sabretache and took out two cigars. He offered one to the Rifleman, who saw no reason to refuse it. The two men companionably shared the flame ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )

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