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The Money Men by H. W. Brands
epub |eng | 2006-05-04 | Author:H. W. Brands

IN FACT HE did intend to make money on the Union war bonds. Cooke cultivated Chase assiduously, hosting the Treasury secretary at his estate outside Philadelphia. Chase brought along his ...
( Category: Money & Monetary Policy May 5,2016 )
Profiles in Leadership by Walter Isaacson
epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Walter Isaacson

MR. MCGRAW Kevin Baker THEY CALLED HIM THE LITTLE NAPOLEON, AN ODDLY REDUNDANT nickname that was nonetheless apt. He led his teams with a passion that might—literally—leave your city razed ...
( Category: Leadership May 5,2016 )
Game Over: Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, and the Culture of Silence by Moushey Bill & Dvorchak Robert
mobi |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Moushey, Bill & Dvorchak, Robert [Moushey, Bill]

Chapter 11 Insularity and Isolation Penn State had a way of doing things in isolation. Nobody had to construct a symbolic Great Wall to separate Happy Valley from the outside ...
( Category: Child Abuse May 5,2016 )
The Guide to Colorado Reptiles and Amphibians by Mary Taylor Young
epub |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:Mary Taylor Young

Legal Status: Nongame. Prairie Lizard/Fence Lizard Sceloporus consobrinus Field ID: Gray and brown, spiny-scaled lizard. Pale stripes on sides of back and black bars along the stripes. Color and patterns ...
( Category: Reptiles & Amphibians May 5,2016 )
The Rajneesh Chronicles by Win McCormack
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Win McCormack [Mccormack, Win]

BHAGWAN’S POWER: THE HUMAN POTENTIAL MOVEMENT GONE AWRY Evil outside the limits of the human imagination WIN McCORMACK “It’s an amazing phenomenon,” says Sarah T. (a pseudonym), a former disciple ...
( Category: State & Local April 30,2016 )
American Character by Colin Woodard
epub |eng | 2016-02-18 | Author:Colin Woodard

World War II ended the Great Depression almost overnight, as the Roosevelt administration transformed the country into a massive, government-run war machine that successfully waged battle on three fronts simultaneously; ...
( Category: Democracy April 29,2016 )
First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Kate Andersen Brower

JACKIE SPOKE IN a childlike whisper of a voice (Kennedy’s sisters called her “the Deb” behind her back), but she was tough as nails and would cut people off if ...
( Category: United States April 29,2016 )
Under the Big Black Sun by John Doe
epub |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:John Doe [Doe, John]

CHAPTER 14 The Stucco-Coated Killing Field by Henry Rollins I came to Los Angeles in the late summer of 1981, having joined the band Black Flag. Before then I was ...
( Category: Punk April 29,2016 )
Virgil Flowers 05 - Shock Wave by Sandford John
mobi |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Sandford, John [Sandford, John]

SHEPARD CALLED HER ATTORNEY, explained the situation to him. He told her to stop talking to Virgil and Good Thunder, and said that he could see her that afternoon, and ...
( Category: Suspense April 29,2016 )
The Wild Muir by Lee Stetson
epub |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Lee Stetson

Excerpted from The Mountains of California. New York: The Century Co., 1894. A Perilous Night on Mount Shasta In 1875, after only a half dozen years of mountaineering, Muir’s confidence ...
( Category: Pacific April 26,2016 )
Kitchen Things by Richard Snodgrass
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Richard Snodgrass

EGG SLICER An egg slicer is a good example of the paradoxes that can come with efficiency. On one hand, there is the beauty of the thing’s simplicity. Delicate as ...
( Category: State & Local April 26,2016 )
The True Benjamin Franklin by Sydney George Fisher
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Sydney George Fisher

In a letter to Lord Karnes which has been often quoted he explained at length, and for the most part in very technical language, the reasons for the superiority of ...
( Category: Colonial Period April 26,2016 )
Sleeping Giant by Tamara Draut
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Tamara Draut

Work: Still Separate and Unequal The largest number of jobs that will be added to our economy in the future are going to be working-class jobs, requiring little education, if ...
( Category: Minority Studies April 25,2016 )
The Fever of 1721 by Stephen Coss
epub |eng | 2016-04-23 | Author:Stephen Coss

18 POINTED SATYR Late on the afternoon of December 2, 1721, several hours after what Samuel Sewall called “a great Funeral” for the deceased Boston politician William Hutchinson, a letter ...
( Category: Colonial Period April 25,2016 )
0062439650 (N) by Kate Andersen Brower
azw3 |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Kate Andersen Brower

JACKIE SPOKE IN a childlike whisper of a voice (Kennedy’s sisters called her “the Deb” behind her back), but she was tough as nails and would cut people off if ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 25,2016 )

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