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High Mountains Rising by Richard A. Straw
epub |eng | 2004-08-20 | Author:Richard A. Straw

NOTES 1. Richard Harrington assessed the effects of the movie and soundtrack in the Washington Post, Aug. 12, 2001. 2. Guthrie T. Meade Jr., Dick Spottswood, and Douglas S. Meade, ...
( Category: State & Local August 21,2014 )
Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine by Daniel Halper
epub |eng | 2014-07-22 | Author:Daniel Halper [Halper, Daniel]

7 The Bubble “She made, I believe, personal judgment calls that turned out to be the wrong call and it cost people their lives.” —U.S. Representative Jason Chaffetz On January ...
( Category: History & Theory August 21,2014 )
The Day Lincoln Was Shot by Jim Bishop
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jim Bishop

5 p.m. The President of the United States came out on the White House porch with Mrs. Lincoln. He studied the sky and buttoned his coat. They were using the ...
( Category: Civil War August 20,2014 )
The Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-08-31 | Author:Garrison Keillor [Keillor, Garrison]

GARY KEILLOR hen I was sixteen years old, I stood six feet two inches tall and weighed a hundred and forty pounds. I was intense and had the metabolism of ...
( Category: Humorous August 20,2014 )
The Man Who Saved the Union by H.W. Brands
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:H.W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

On March 29 Grant began moving. The rain had stopped and roads begun to dry. But the army was scarcely in motion when the skies opened again. “The heavy rains ...
( Category: Civil War August 20,2014 )
The Day Kennedy Was Shot by Jim Bishop
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jim Bishop

4 p.m. The cold night wind swept the face of Europe. It came strong and steady out of the northwest, combing through the hedgerows of the Scottish moors, swinging the ...
( Category: United States August 20,2014 )
In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-04 | Author:Hampton Sides [Sides, Hampton]

AROUND MIDNIGHT ON June 11, something momentous did happen. While most of the men slept away the bright polar night, the ice opened with a ragged crack, and the Jeannette ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica August 20,2014 )
Tobacco by Iain Gately
epub |eng | 2001-08-19 | Author:Iain Gately

‘As a rule,’ said Holmes, ‘the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it appears to be. It is your common, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as ...
( Category: Colonial Period August 20,2014 )
Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Bugliosi Vincent
mobi |eng | 2008-05-17 | Author:Bugliosi, Vincent [Bugliosi, Vincent]

Back at the Homicide and Robbery Bureau, Captain Fritz focuses his questions to Oswald once again on the time of the assassination. “Did you eat lunch with anyone yesterday?” he ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 20,2014 )
The 48 Laws Of Power (Abridged) by Robert Greene
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Greene [Greene, Robert]

Law 26 – Keep Your Hands Clean You must seem a paragon of civility and efficiency: Your hands are never soiled by mistakes and nasty deeds. Maintain such a spotless ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions August 20,2014 )
In the Lion's Den: An Eyewitness Account of Washington's Battle with Syria by Tabler Andrew
mobi |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Tabler, Andrew [Tabler, Andrew]

6 NO VOICE LOUDER THAN THE CRY OF BATTLE A little after 8 am on July 12, 2006, Hezbollah fighters fired katusha rockets from Lebanon into Israel. Simultaneously, a squad ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 19,2014 )
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Kinzer Stephen
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-02-06 | Author:Kinzer, Stephen [Kinzer, Stephen]

9 A Graveyard Smell A CIA officer who called himself Abe was one of the first people David Atlee Phillips met after he reported for duty at Langley, Virginia, in ...
( Category: International & World Politics August 19,2014 )
Development as Freedom by Sen Amartya
epub |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:Sen, Amartya [Sen, Amartya]

CHAPTER 8 WOMEN’S AGENCY AND SOCIAL CHANGE Mary Wollstonecraft’s classic book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792, had various distinct claims within the general program of ...
( Category: Social Policy August 19,2014 )
A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Samantha Power [Power, Samantha]

Rwandan bodies floating down the Kagera River. Chapter 10 Rwanda: "Mostly in a Listening Mode" "I'll Never Be Tutsi Again" On the evening of April 6, 1994, two years to ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Administration August 19,2014 )
The Age of Lincoln and the Art of American Power, 1848-1876 by Nester William
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-07-30 | Author:Nester, William [Nester, William]

12 With Malice toward None With malice toward none; with charity toward all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on ...
( Category: Civil War August 19,2014 )

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