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Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli by Ted Merwin
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Ted Merwin [Merwin, Ted]

The Rise of Ethnic Food With the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the rise of the civil rights movement, and the involvement of the country in Vietnam, the carefree ...
( Category: State & Local December 14,2015 )
The American West: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Stephen Aron
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:Stephen Aron [Aron, Stephen]

Reconstructing races and rights Struggles over the place of Indians were entwined with broader debates about race, rights, and the relationship between individuals, states, and the federal government that convulsed ...
( Category: State & Local December 12,2015 )
The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic by Ginger Strand
epub |eng | 2015-11-17 | Author:Ginger Strand [Strand, Ginger]

8 Out of the Blue Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, generous of smile, rotund of body, arrived at GE sporting his traditional fez. He was trailed by his brocaded, bejeweled ...
( Category: United States December 10,2015 )
The Deep Dark by Gregg Olsen
epub |eng | 2005-02-28 | Author:Gregg Olsen

JOANNE STROPE REICHERT SPENT THE AFTERNOON PLAYING COUNTRY music records and puttering around the Big Creek house she shared with her common-law husband, Jack Reichert. For the first time, the ...
( Category: State & Local December 5,2015 )
Machines of Loving Grace by John Markoff
epub |eng | 2015-07-10 | Author:John Markoff

6|COLLABORATION In a restored brick building in Boston, a humanoid figure turned its head. The robot was no more than an assemblage of plastic, motors, and wires, all topped by ...
( Category: History December 5,2015 )
Once in a Great City by David Maraniss
epub |eng | | Author:David Maraniss

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 5,2015 )
Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy
epub |eng | 1969-12-04 | Author:Robert F. Kennedy

NEW CHECKS AND BALANCES In warmaking, the Constitution contemplated enforced collaboration between the President and his fellow politicians on Capitol Hill. In practice, as the missile crisis illustrates, a strong ...
( Category: Nuclear December 5,2015 )
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
epub |eng | 2006-12-04 | Author:Sebastian Junger

FIFTEEN TWENTY MILES TO the north in the failing mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts, the phone was ringing in the apartment of a twenty-three-year-old woman named Joann Graff. Graff lived ...
( Category: Serial Killers December 5,2015 )
Bridge of Spies by Giles Whittell
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Giles Whittell [Whittell, Giles]

What were the wives doing there? Why double the number of people who had seen the “giant black crow” close up? Why treble (at least) the amount of gossip about ...
( Category: Nuclear December 4,2015 )
Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
epub |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Jeffrey Meyers [Meyers, Jeffrey]

Photograph Insert 1. EDWARD FITZGERALD WITH SCOTT, BUFFALO, CHRISTMAS 1899: A small, inarticulate, ineffectual man with well-cut clothes and fine Southern manners. (Princeton University Library) 2. MOLLIE FITZGERALD, C. 1905: ...
( Category: Authors December 2,2015 )
Edie by George Plimpton & Jean Stein
epub |eng | 2010-02-23 | Author:George Plimpton & Jean Stein [George Plimpton and Jean Stein]

Edie and Gerard Malanga in the torture sequence, Vinyl, March, 1965 I worked on getting rid of characters. Andy had said, “Get rid of plot.” Of course, Samuel Beckett had ...
( Category: England November 30,2015 )
Washington's Circle by David S. Heidler Jeanne T. Heidler
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:David S. Heidler,Jeanne T. Heidler [Heidler, David S.]

Newspaper and pamphlet attacks had stepped up over the summer of 1792. Because Hamilton and Jefferson believed the other responsible for starting the public phase of the conflict, each thought ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 29,2015 )
The Mirage Man by David Willman
epub |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:David Willman [Willman, David]

Montooth expected that he, too, would eventually face criticism. Second-guessing went with the territory of high-profile work—and Montooth had enough real-world experience to resist being distracted by those forces beyond ...
( Category: National November 27,2015 )
Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America (Penguin Classics) by Alexis Tocqueville
epub |eng | 2003-04-23 | Author:Alexis Tocqueville [Tocqueville, Alexis]

CHAPTER 2 THE PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF BELIEFS AMONG DEMOCRATIC NATIONS Depending on the times, beliefs of a dogmatic character are more or less common. They arise in different ways and ...
( Category: Democracy November 27,2015 )
American Hunter by Willie Robertson
epub |eng | | Author:Willie Robertson

As another hunter, William “Billy” Dixon wrote, “It was deadly business, without sentiment; it was dollars against tender-heartedness, and dollars won.” Congress passed a measure in 1874 to place limits ...
( Category: Hunting November 26,2015 )

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