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Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919 by Hischak Thomas S.;
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Hischak, Thomas S.; [Hischak, Thomas S.]

The Human Comedy [28 December 1983, Public Theatre/Anspacher Theatre, 79 performances; Royale Theatre, 13 performances] a musical play by William Dumaresq based on William Saroyan’s novel. Score: Galt MacDermot (music), ...
( Category: Broadway & Musicals April 25,2017 )
Contraband Cocktails by Paul Dickson
epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Paul Dickson [Dickson, Paul]

CUBA LIBRE This drink dates to Havana around 1900, after the Spanish-American War (“Free Cuba” being the battle cry during that conflict, which began and ended in 1898 and led ...
( Category: History April 24,2017 )
Deep Undercover by Jack Barsky & Cindy Coloma
epub |eng | 2017-03-23 | Author:Jack Barsky & Cindy Coloma

When I awoke the next morning, feeling rested and refreshed after a peaceful night’s sleep, I contemplated my next move. After breakfast at a diner just around the corner from ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage April 23,2017 )
The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau by Julie Ferry
epub |eng | 2017-04-21 | Author:Julie Ferry

Prince Leopold would always hold Minnie in high esteem, and even after her marriage he still wrote to her frequently, his letters filled with compliments. ‘You were much admired yesterday, ...
( Category: Women in History April 22,2017 )
We Do Our Part by Charles Peters
epub |eng | 2017-03-06 | Author:Charles Peters

There was a vast fireplace of the sort writers searching for adjectives always call baronial. Fourteen status seekers could sit at the same time on the needlepoint-upholstered fender that went ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction April 5,2017 )
Fetch the Devil by Clint Richmond
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Clint Richmond

During the early days of the investigation, Sheriff Fox was led to believe that Frome was little more than a glorified salesman, albeit for one of America’s largest explosives manufacturing ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2017 )
The Sons of Molly Maguire by Bulik Mark;
epub |eng | 2015-04-04 | Author:Bulik, Mark;

11 Mars in Mahantango You may have Pottsville laid in ashes and a thousand barbarities committed. —Gen. Darius Couch, 1863 On March 3, 1863, Congress approved an unprecedented expansion of ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2017 )
Invasion Diary by Richard Tregaskis
epub |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Richard Tregaskis

SEPTEMBER 18 This afternoon, I heard at 5th Army Headquarters that Col. Tucker and his men had regained their position on the heights commanding Altavilla; that the fall of the ...
( Category: World War II March 30,2017 )
The Band that Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic by Steve Turner
epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Steve Turner [Turner, Steve]

11 “A SOLEMNITY TOO DEEP FOR WORDS.” It was 11:45 at night according to ship’s time when the Titanic grazed along the iceberg that would send it to the ocean ...
( Category: History March 23,2017 )
Oxford Circle by Allen Meyers
epub |eng | 2011-10-16 | Author:Allen Meyers

Ronnie’s on Castor Avenue, similar to Arnold’s on the famous Happy Days television program, opened in late 1957. The off-street restaurant, founded by local real estate icon Harry Toben, addressed ...
( Category: State & Local March 23,2017 )
A Generation of Sociopaths by Bruce Cannon Gibney
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-07-02 | Author:Bruce Cannon Gibney

Antisocial Security All OAB programs struggle for the simple reason that they never received enough funding in the first place. FDR may have hoped Social Security would be self-sustaining and ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion March 22,2017 )
Cradles of Power by Harold I. Gullan
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Harold I. Gullan

CHAPTER 12 Unlikely to Unlucky—Hardings, Coolidges, and Hoovers Phoebe and George Tryon Harding II One thing about Warren Gamaliel Harding: he really looked like a president. Six feet tall, chiseled ...
( Category: United States March 22,2017 )
Supremely Partisan by James D. Zirin
epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:James D. Zirin

Notes 1. Remark to diplomat Evelyn Shickburgh. Diaries 1951–1956 (London, 1986). 2. Congress’s naturalization power, Art. §8, cl. 4, enables it to grant American citizenship to such a person born ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 22,2017 )
The Nixon Tapes by Douglas Brinkley
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Brinkley

NIXON: The point that you should make, of course, that everyone should make out there, is that putting it in its coldest terms: South Vietnam should get demoralized if they ...
( Category: Executive Branch March 22,2017 )
Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Campaigns by Cummins Joseph
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Cummins, Joseph [Cummins, Joseph]

WILSON’S STOLEN VALISE The only hint of a romantic scandal in this campaign came when Woodrow Wilson’s longtime friendship with a lovely divorcée named Mary Allen Peck was made public ...
( Category: Elections March 22,2017 )

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