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0440314887(N) by Anne Moody
epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Anne Moody [Moody, Anne]

I didn’t know what to say. I just knew that it would be best in the long run if I didn’t go back there to live. So I didn’t answer ...
( Category: African-American Studies November 8,2015 )
Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America by Tom Piazza
mobi |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Tom Piazza [Piazza, Tom]

4. Nobody knows what really goes on for an artist. It’s presumptuous to think you can, any more than you can know what really goes on inside somebody else’s marriage. ...
( Category: State & Local November 5,2015 )
lost treasure of king juba by joseph frank
epub |eng | 2003-03-24 | Author:joseph, frank [joseph, frank]

Of all the university-trained professionals to investigate the southern Illinois controversy, Cook was perhaps the best qualified. Given his eminent background, scientific credentials, and particularly his rare open-mindedness, his elementary ...
( Category: State & Local November 1,2015 )
Adams Vs. Jefferson : The Tumultuous Election of 1800 by Ferling John
epub |eng | 2004-10-31 | Author:Ferling, John

10 “The Boisterous Sea of Liberty” The Campaign of 1800 CAMPAIGNING IN 1796 had not begun until Washington announced his intention to retire, about a hundred days before election day. ...
( Category: Elections November 1,2015 )
Lady at the O.K. Corral by Ann Kirschner
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Kirschner

JOSEPHINE AND WYATT had followed the boomtown circuit since they left Tombstone, always alert to that mysterious signal that was inaudible to mere mortals, the one that whispered of high ...
( Category: State & Local October 31,2015 )
The Tycoons by Charles R. Morris
epub |eng | 2015-10-28 | Author:Charles R. Morris

An 1890s Pennsylvania steel mill town. “Hell with the hatches on,” one traveler called them. British observers were similarly depressed. Stephen Jeans, secretary of the British Iron Trade Association, who ...
( Category: Business October 30,2015 )
Bankrupting the Enemy by Edward S. Miller
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-11 | Author:Edward S. Miller

Desperate Flight of Funds That day, Friday, 25 July, rumors swirled through immigrant communities on the West Coast. Business callers bombarded the Japanese consulate with questions. In San Francisco anxious ...
( Category: United States October 28,2015 )
1250056012 (N) by Arnie Bernstein
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-03 | Author:Arnie Bernstein

PART VI George Washington’s Birthday “What would George Washington think … and DO, were he alive today?” —JAMES WHEELER-HILL, NATIONAL SECRETARY OF THE GERMAN-AMERICAN BUND, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, FEBRUARY 20, ...
( Category: History & Theory October 28,2015 )
Warfare State by Sparrow James T
epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Sparrow, James T.

The boys on the 74 fighting fronts of the United Nations do not care whose hands, white or black, make the arsenals of war so long as they can receive ...
( Category: National October 28,2015 )
Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra by Jordan Fisher Smith
mobi |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Jordan Fisher Smith [Smith, Jordan Fisher]

A few months later it was my turn to go to the bridge. It was early morning, and the sun rising over the mountains on the eastern skyline was painting ...
( Category: State & Local October 25,2015 )
Wild Ones by Jon Mooallem
epub |eng | 2013-04-11 | Author:Jon Mooallem

PART THREE BIRDS 11. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS By the late 1940s, there were only about thirty whooping cranes left on Earth, and, for better or worse, America was about to level ...
( Category: Wildlife October 24,2015 )
Propaganda and the Public Mind by Noam Chomsky & David Barsamian
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Noam Chomsky & David Barsamian

5. The Meaning of Seattle KGNU, Boulder, Colorado, February 23, 2000 Let’s talk about what occurred in Seattle in late November and early December around the World Trade Organization’s ministerial ...
( Category: History & Theory October 22,2015 )
The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath by Bernanke Ben S
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-10-04 | Author:Bernanke, Ben S. [Bernanke, Ben S.]

WE HAD A PLAN; the next step was to sell it. At 3:30 p.m., Paulson, Cox, and I met again with the president in the Roosevelt Room at the White ...
( Category: Economic Policy October 21,2015 )
The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Bob Woodward

* * * I. Included were: alternate to Haldeman; supervise staff secretary and everything “destined for the President’s desk”; supervise the security office and security clearances for all nominations for ...
( Category: History & Theory October 20,2015 )
1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny by David Pietrusza
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-10-18 | Author:David Pietrusza [Pietrusza, David]

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO “We always call her ‘Granny’” TO SOME POLITICS WAS A WAR NOT ALWAYS WORTH FIGHTING. Just before midnight Monday, September 12, Joe Kennedy and his loyal henchman Eddie ...
( Category: History & Theory October 20,2015 )

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