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Lincoln and the Power of the Press by Harold Holzer
epub |eng | | Author:Harold Holzer

But Lincoln surely knew who bore the principal guilt for the scandal. When, late in September, the persistent “Chevalier” brazenly petitioned the president for a pass to accompany a naval ...
( Category: American Civil War November 24,2014 )
The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II by Glass Charles
epub |eng | 2013-06-13 | Author:Glass, Charles [Glass, Charles]

TWENTY-THREE The Army is organized throughout for one single purpose—fighting. Psychology for the Fighting Man, p. 325 BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER 1944, the U.S. military in the European Theater ...
( Category: United States November 24,2014 )
When Britain Burned the White House by Peter Snow
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Snow

14 A tempest of dissatisfaction 28–29 August BY THE MORNING of 29 August Captain James Alexander Gordon was ready. His ships were at anchor on the seafront of Alexandria. He ...
( Category: State & Local November 24,2014 )
Here We Are Now by Charles R. Cross
epub |eng | | Author:Charles R. Cross

Kurt’s writing on the end of his shoe would play a small role in yet another controversy involving him. In 2006, the music publishing and marketing firm Primary Wave acquired ...
( Category: Rock November 24,2014 )
The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld by Chris Wiltz
epub |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Chris Wiltz [Wiltz, Chris]

Late one afternoon Norma drove over to the Davis Beauty Salon. It wasn’t her regular appointment day, but sometimes she popped in for a quick fix if she had special ...
( Category: State & Local November 24,2014 )
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt
epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Eleanor Roosevelt [Roosevelt, Eleanor]

Twenty-three Visit to England IN RETROSPECT, the thing that strikes me about these days is my triple-barreled effort to work with the OCD, carry out my official engagements, and still ...
( Category: Women November 24,2014 )
Grand Opera: The Story of the Met by Affron Charles & Affron Mirella Jona
epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:Affron, Charles & Affron, Mirella Jona [Affron, Charles]

Made in USA Two weeks before his first night, Giulio Gatti-Casaza announced that the Met would at last present an American opera, Frederick S. Converse’s The Pipe of Desire. Soon ...
( Category: State & Local November 24,2014 )
While the World Watched by Carolyn McKinstry
epub |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Carolyn McKinstry

Chapter 12 The Most Dangerous Racist in America * * * [George Wallace is] perhaps the most dangerous racist in America. . . . I am not sure that he ...
( Category: State & Local November 24,2014 )
Patriots by A. J. Langguth
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:A. J. Langguth [Langguth, A. J.]

Thomas Jefferson in 1768 PRIVATE COLLECTION Jefferson 1775–76 EARLY IN the winter of 1776, John Adams read a new pamphlet with a provocative title. He sent a copy to Abigail ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 23,2014 )
Coming Ashore by Catherine Gildiner
epub |ara, eng | 2014-08-24 | Author:Catherine Gildiner

CHAPTER 13 five pillars of salt While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. — Angela Schwindt After the ...
( Category: State & Local November 23,2014 )
What Just Happened? by Art Linson
epub |eng | 2008-11-22 | Author:Art Linson

TEN Pushing Tin Downhill The expression pushing tin is not an inside joke coined by a traveling tuna can salesman. In the dimly lit operations room of the New York ...
( Category: Direction & Production November 23,2014 )
Elvis Presley by Williamson Joel
epub |eng | 2014-09-19 | Author:Williamson, Joel

Sheila Leaves Elvis was compelled to feel that he was a generous man, but Sheila Ryan had difficulty expressing unbounded gratitude for Elvis’s gifts. Joe tutored her. She had to ...
( Category: State & Local November 23,2014 )
The Means by Douglas Brunt
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Brunt

TOM PAULEY 28 “Selling is at least half of what I do. For the first time I see the appropriateness of the election process. It’s the best preparation there is ...
( Category: Political November 23,2014 )
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English

Domesticity Without the Science Ellen Richards and her colleagues never doubted the eventual success of their movement. Once she fantasized about “the college woman in 1950”: She will be so ...
( Category: United States November 23,2014 )
To Everything a Season by Lauraine Snelling
epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Lauraine Snelling [Snelling, Lauraine]

Chapter 19 I think those south fields are ready to be cut.” Lars tipped his hat back on his head and wiped his forehead with a handkerchief. Haakan grunted his ...
( Category: Historical November 23,2014 )

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