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The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression by Scott Sumner
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Scott Sumner [Sumner, Scott]

In the preceding three chapters we have seen evidence of rapid inflation in an extremely depressed economy, rapid change in real wages (even before implementation of the NIRA), and industrial ...
( Category: Macroeconomics March 8,2016 )
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror by Michael V. Hayden
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Michael V. Hayden [Hayden, Michael V.]

THIRTEEN GOING HOME PITTSBURGH, PA, 1945–2014 In the 1997 hit film Grosse Pointe Blank, John Cusack plays an assassin back in town for his high school’s ten-year reunion. Searching for ...
( Category: United States March 8,2016 )
Strangers on a Bridge by James Donovan
epub |eng | | Author:James Donovan

Thursday, October 24 The courtroom was crowded and it was a hot day. I was pleased in this case that under the rules I would sum up first. My appeal ...
( Category: Nuclear March 8,2016 )
Let the People Rule by Geoffrey Cowan
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Geoffrey Cowan

Chapter Thirteen For anyone who understood politics, power, and the parliamentary realities of nominating conventions, the outcome should have been clear by the time the 1912 Republican Convention opened on ...
( Category: Elections March 7,2016 )
The Profiteers by Sally Denton
epub |eng | | Author:Sally Denton

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The Hydra-Headed American Giant “Bechtel arrived in Iraq quietly,” wrote Dahr Jamail, among the relatively few unembedded journalists to report from occupied Iraq during the war and its ...
( Category: Business March 7,2016 )
The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Rauchway Eric
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-02-10 | Author:Rauchway, Eric [Rauchway, Eric]

Notes 1. Isaiah Berlin, “President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” in The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays, ed. Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer (London: Chatto and Windus, 1997), 629. ...
( Category: European March 6,2016 )
A Brief History of the Cold War by Lee Edwards
epub |eng | | Author:Lee Edwards

AFGHANISTAN After a string of notable foreign policy successes, the Soviets were about to encounter an unexpected setback. In October 1979, Hafizulah Amin, a formerly reliable communist politician, engineered a ...
( Category: European March 5,2016 )
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bryson Bill
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-05-12 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bryson, Bill]

( Category: Travel March 2,2016 )
America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By by Amar Akhil Reed
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Amar, Akhil Reed [Amar, Akhil Reed]

“the Heads of Departments” IN ALL THE WASHINGTON ADMINISTRATION EPISODES just canvassed, the president relied heavily on the advice of an inner circle of top executive-branch officials. This heavy reliance ...
( Category: Constitutions March 2,2016 )
RFK Jr. by Jerry Oppenheimer
epub |eng | | Author:Jerry Oppenheimer

TWENTY Emotional Changes Bobby was faced with both love and sorrow in the nine months between asking Emily Black to be his wife and the loss of the one person ...
( Category: State & Local March 2,2016 )
California Bungalows of the Twenties by Wilson Henry L.;
epub |eng | 2012-09-06 | Author:Wilson, Henry L.; [Wilson, Henry L.]

Floor Plan No. 620 NUMBER 642 This illustration shows a half timber and stucco house, which has many characteristics of the English style of architecture. The main entrance is through ...
( Category: State & Local March 2,2016 )
No treason No. 6: The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lysander Spooner

( Category: Constitutions March 1,2016 )
Death at SeaWorld by David Kirby
epub | | | Author:David Kirby

23 Tilly’s Willy One of John Jett’s biggest regrets in his life was that on that December day in 1995 when his best friend, Jeff, got fired from SeaWorld, he ...
( Category: Mammals March 1,2016 )
The Great Boom 1950-2000 by Robert Sobel
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Robert Sobel

6 THE END OF THE POSTWAR PERIOD There is no question as to which car is most like the U.S. cars—it is the Datsun, with its familiar arrangement of components, ...
( Category: Economic History February 23,2016 )
Perrysburg by C. Robert Boyd
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:C. Robert Boyd

It is typical in small towns that one of the nicest houses often ends up as a funeral home. With additions such as the drive-through porch and rear add-ons, this ...
( Category: United States February 17,2016 )

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