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A People's Guide to Los Angeles by Barraclough Laura Cheng Wendy Pulido Laura
epub |eng | | Author:Barraclough, Laura, Cheng, Wendy, Pulido, Laura

NEARBY SITES OF INTEREST Black Power mural, To Protect and Serve: A Moment in African American History 3406 11th Ave., Los Angeles 90018 Noni Olabisi’s stunning forty-foot mural, painted on ...
( Category: State & Local January 3,2016 )
Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News by A. Brad Schwartz
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:A. Brad Schwartz [Schwartz, A. Brad]

10 “The Horror Man” There is one thing certain … Your future is a brilliant one. —Margaret C. Brockmeyer of Baltimore to Orson Welles, October 31, 19381 Less than two ...
( Category: Radio January 2,2016 )
A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable by John Steele Gordon
epub |eng | 2003-07-02 | Author:John Steele Gordon [Gordon, John Steele]

8. Lightning Through Deep Waters ONCE THE AGAMEMNON RETURNED to Queenstown, Field, Thomson, and Bright left immediately for London to meet with the board of directors of the Atlantic Telegraph ...
( Category: History January 2,2016 )
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia by Tzouliadis Tim
epub |eng | 2008-07-17 | Author:Tzouliadis, Tim [Tzouliadis, Tim]

IN JANUARY 1944, Kathleen Harriman was invited to visit a clearing in the Katyn Forest of Byelorussia, where the mass graves of several thousand Polish officers missing since 1940 had ...
( Category: Immigrants January 1,2016 )
The Lost Art of Dress by Przybyszewski Linda
epub |eng | | Author:Przybyszewski, Linda [Przybyszewski, Linda]

5 Revolt The Fall of the Dress Doctors MAGAZINE WRITER HAZEL RAWSON CADES explained to her Girl Scout readers in 1927 that girls needed to choose the right handkerchief when ...
( Category: Fashion Design December 30,2015 )
A Christmas Far from Home by Stanley Weintraub
epub |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Stanley Weintraub

Bearded and frostbitten, Bill Barber’s beleaguered Marines descending from the Toktong Pass would hold on for three days at Fox Hill. Coming down from Yudam-ni, Sergeant Aguirre of 3rd Battalion, ...
( Category: Campaigns December 29,2015 )
Latino Americans by Ray Suarez
epub |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Ray Suarez

• • • IN 1957, PLAYWRIGHT Arthur Laurents and composer Leonard Bernstein dusted off the old love-across-ethnic-barriers idea for a new Broadway musical. This one would not have a “we’re ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies December 29,2015 )
The Landscape of History by Gaddis John Lewis
epub |eng | 2002-12-24 | Author:Gaddis, John Lewis

II. First, the distinction between the immediate, the intermediate, and the distant. Although historical narratives normally move forward, historians in preparing them move backward.11 They tend to start with some ...
( Category: United States December 25,2015 )
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by Ben Mezrich
mobi |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Ben Mezrich [Mezrich, Ben]

* * * The long hours are still flowering. I watch them with my eyes closed and remember how I once played a part in a fairy tale. How the ...
( Category: State & Local December 24,2015 )
Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story by David Maraniss
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:David Maraniss [Maraniss, David]

Chapter 16 * * * THE SPIRIT OF DETROIT AVERY BRUNDAGE, PRESIDENT of the International Olympic Committee, was coming to Detroit, and Richard Cross regretted that he would not be ...
( Category: State & Local December 23,2015 )
Eisenhower's Armies: The American-British Alliance during World War II by Niall Barr
epub, azw |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Niall Barr [Barr, Niall]

While Baytown appeared a relatively straightforward operation, Eisenhower always recognised that not only was Avalanche a more risky venture but that the US Fifth Army was something of an unknown ...
( Category: Treaties December 20,2015 )
Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party (Studies in Postwar American Political Development) by Kabaservice Geoffrey
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Kabaservice, Geoffrey [Kabaservice, Geoffrey]

CHAPTER 9 Some Revelation Is at Hand Richard Nixon’s First Year in Office, 1969 During his long political career, Richard Nixon inspired countless attempts to determine his ideological and psychological ...
( Category: Political Parties December 19,2015 )
Kitchen Literacy by Ann Vileisis
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Vileisis

CHAPTER 8 Kitchen Countertrends In the late 1960s, a new Stop & Shop supermarket was constructed on the site of the “town farm” where my grandfather, as a boy in ...
( Category: United States December 19,2015 )
Failures of the Presidents by Thomas J Craughwell
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-17 | Author:Thomas J Craughwell

NATIONAL REGRET A movement for redress gathered force in the late 1960s and early 1970s and gradually, belatedly, won some concessions from the government. In 1976, President Gerald Ford rescinded ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 18,2015 )
The Obamas by Kantor Jodi
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Kantor, Jodi [Kantor, Jodi]

PERHAPS THE STRANGEST THING ABOUT the relationship between the president, the first lady, and the advisers was the sheer expansion it measured in the Obama union. That was the singular ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 17,2015 )

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