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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:Jane Mayer [Mayer, Jane]

CHAPTER NINE Money Is Speech: The Long Road to Citizens United On May 17, 2010, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City applauded as a ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism January 27,2016 )
Dark Money by Jane Mayer
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:Jane Mayer

CHAPTER NINE Money Is Speech: The Long Road to Citizens United On May 17, 2010, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City applauded as a ...
( Category: National January 26,2016 )
The Indispensable Zinn by Timothy Patrick McCarthy
epub |eng | | Author:Timothy Patrick McCarthy

I remember you pointing that out to me on our way back, which was not as fun-filled as our way there. Those ironies, those contrasts, are such as to make ...
( Category: United States January 26,2016 )
Power Wars by Charlie Savage
epub |eng | 2015-11-02 | Author:Charlie Savage

21. “A Price to Be Paid” Holder had already started to pull back on the leak crackdown with his new investigation guidelines eighteen months before Petraeus got the good deal. ...
( Category: Executive Branch January 26,2016 )
Split Season by Jeff Katz
epub |eng | | Author:Jeff Katz

Chapter 6 START ME UP JULY 31–AUGUST 9 The New York Daily News was the first to report it—“PLAY BALL.” It was over—baseball was back. A little after 6:00 a.m. ...
( Category: United States January 25,2016 )
Bag of Bones: The Sensational Grave Robbery of the Merchant Prince of Manhattan by J. North Conway
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:J. North Conway

When the Jefferson Market Police Court convened at 2 p.m. on November 16, Vreeland and Burke sat in the prisoners’ dock. Seated in the first row of the courtroom were ...
( Category: State & Local January 25,2016 )
TIME-LIFE The Civil War in 500 Photographs by TIME-LIFE BOOKS
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:TIME-LIFE BOOKS

Four Confederate soldiers stood in the battery at Fort Fisher. The unique fortress was built from earth instead of brick, and this enabled it to better withstand the shock of ...
( Category: Civil War January 23,2016 )
Making Photography Matter by Cara A. Finnegan
epub |eng | | Author:Cara A. Finnegan

Children who had toiled not, and who were growing up in idleness to become vagabonds of the future, arriving at the mills, in many instances bare-footed and in rags, were ...
( Category: History January 22,2016 )
Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving
epub |eng | 2006-02-18 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

CHAPTER XXXI. A Consultation Whether to Proceed by Land or Water— Preparations for Boat-Building.—An Exploring Party.—A Party of Trappers Detached.—Two Snake Visitors.—Their Report Concerning the River.—Confirmed by the Exploring Party.—Mad ...
( Category: Biographical January 21,2016 )
What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER Bayreuth, Aug. 2d, 1891 It was at Nuremberg that we struck the inundation of music-mad strangers that was rolling down upon Bayreuth. It had ...
( Category: Civil War January 21,2016 )
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
mobi, epub |eng | 1982-01-02 | Author:Robert A. Caro

AS HE ENTERED the home stretch, however, he made two improvements in his strategy. One was his own inspiration. He always enjoyed such great success with elderly people; now he ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 20,2016 )
Fleshing Out Skull & Bones: Investigations into America's Most Powerful Secret Society by Kris Millegan
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:Kris Millegan [Millegan, Kris]

8. Elimination of German Resources for War: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-Ninth Congress; Part 5, Testimony of [the United States] Treasury ...
( Category: State & Local January 20,2016 )
Jacobs Beach by Kevin Mitchell
epub |eng | | Author:Kevin Mitchell

11 SONNY AND THE MOB Joe Miceli was just making a living, doing the best he could. But Estes Kefauver had little time for fighters’ hard-luck stories. He viewed the ...
( Category: State & Local January 18,2016 )
The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World: Over 600 Secrets of the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios, and Disney's Animal Kingdom by Susan Veness
epub |eng | 2015-04-02 | Author:Susan Veness [Veness, Susan]

Imagine That! Imagineer Ron Rodriguez remembers the challenges of booking the original entertainment for the Italy pavilion: “Sonny Anderson, then the Director of Casting and Booking in California, was traveling ...
( Category: South Atlantic January 18,2016 )
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-14 | Author:Bill Bryson

INTERESTINGLY, at just about the time I acquired my television I realized that I didn’t really like TV very much—or, to put it more accurately, didn’t much like what was ...
( Category: State & Local January 13,2016 )

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