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The Twilight of American Culture by Morris Berman
epub |eng | 2001-06-15 | Author:Morris Berman [Berman, Morris]

we didn’t get along well until photography came into its own. Then—motion pictures in the early twentieth century. Radio. Television. Things began to have mass. . . . And because ...
( Category: United States October 19,2015 )
Churchill's Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government by Arnn Dr. Larry
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Arnn, Dr. Larry [Arnn, Dr. Larry]

10 THE CONSTITUTIONALIST Churchill wrote that a Municipal Trust would be more dangerous than the Beef Trust. Something must be done, he thought, for the victims of the Beef Trust ...
( Category: Great Britain October 18,2015 )
The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy by Gessen Masha
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-04-06 | Author:Gessen, Masha [Gessen, Masha]

• • • AFTER JAHAR dropped him off at Carriage Drive, Azamat took a nap. About an hour and a half later, Dias and Bayan walked in. Now Azamat took ...
( Category: State & Local October 18,2015 )
Kissinger, Volume 1 by Niall Ferguson
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-09-13 | Author:Niall Ferguson

CHAPTER 15 Crisis The American Presidency is . . . formidable because it represents the point of ultimate decision in the American political system. It is exposed because decision cannot ...
( Category: Executive Branch October 15,2015 )
Our Man in Charleston : Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South (9780307887290) by Dickey Christopher
epub |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Dickey, Christopher

Chapter 27 EARLY ON CHRISTMAS EVE AFTERNOON, Robert Bunch received an unexpected visitor. A Mr. Thomas Butler Gunn from the New-York Evening Post was arriving too late for the Secession ...
( Category: Civil War October 13,2015 )
Bourgeois Frontier by Jay Gitlin
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Jay Gitlin

Mrs. Ramsay Crooks. The marriage of Marianne Pelagie “Emilie” Pratte (1806-1863), daughter of Bernard Pratte and Emilie Labbadie, to Ramsay Crooks, right-hand man of John Jacob Astor, in 1825 facilitated ...
( Category: State & Local October 13,2015 )
Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA by Ralph W. McGehee
epub, mobi |eng | 1983-07-01 | Author:Ralph W. McGehee [McGehee, Ralph W.]

9. HEADQUARTERS: GHOSTS IN THE HALLS WHEN I arrived back at Headquarters from Thailand in late 1967 to begin processing for my new assignment as branch chief on Taiwan, I ...
( Category: Political October 13,2015 )
The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World by Prouty L. Fletcher
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-07-02 | Author:Prouty, L. Fletcher [Prouty, L. Fletcher]

* * * [1] Allen Dulles, The Craft of Intelligence, New York: Harper & Row, 1963. [2] The Real CIA, New York: The Macmillan Co., 1968. Chapter 10. The Dulles-Jackson-Correa ...
( Category: History & Theory October 13,2015 )
Inside the Company: CIA Diary by Philip Agee
epub, mobi |eng | 1975-08-19 | Author:Philip Agee [Agee, Philip]

Washington DC 12 February 1964 For the past few days I've been shuttling between the Uruguayan desk and the Cuban branch getting briefed on operational priorities against the Cubans, as ...
( Category: Espionage October 13,2015 )
War is a Racket by Smedley D. Butler
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Smedley D. Butler [Butler, Smedley D.]

CHAPTER FOUR HOW TO SMASH THIS RACKET! WELL, it's a racket, all right. A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You ...
( Category: History & Theory October 12,2015 )
Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund by Arnie Bernstein
epub |eng | 2013-09-03 | Author:Arnie Bernstein [Bernstein, Arnie]

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: Fascism October 11,2015 )
American Pain by John Temple
epub |eng | 2015-07-21 | Author:John Temple

Shelby knew the trip was a failure when she saw Alice coming out only a few minutes after she’d gone back to talk to the doctor. The women got back ...
( Category: State & Local October 11,2015 )
Down to the Last Pitch: How the 1991 Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves Gave Us the Best World Series of All Time by Wendel Tim
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Wendel, Tim [Wendel, Tim]

Game Six SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1991 AT HUBERT H. HUMPHREY METRODOME MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA By the bottom of the eleventh inning things had gotten to the point at which Kirby Puckett ...
( Category: State & Local October 11,2015 )
Seasons in Hell by Mike Shropshire
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Mike Shropshire

Chapter 14 The East Coast media in particular was snapping at Spiro Agnew’s trousers leg. According to all the papers and TV newscasts, the vice-president was accused of all manner ...
( Category: State & Local October 11,2015 )
The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Timothy Crouse [Crouse, Timothy]

* The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore White (New York, Signet Books, 1967), p. 377. † The Resurrection of Richard Nixon by Jules Witcover (New York, Putnam, 1970), ...
( Category: Elections October 11,2015 )

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