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The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy by Filip Bondy
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Filip Bondy [Bondy, Filip]

16 The Ninth “I wanted that pitch to be buried in his neck. He beat me. I don’t know how he got the barrel of his bat on that ball.” ...
( Category: United States October 7,2015 )
Capturing Camelot by Kitty Kelley
epub |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Kitty Kelley [Kelley, Kitty]

While the President was angry at Look for publishing the photos without consent he apparently liked the Caroline story, at least as related to Stanley by Ted Sorensen, who said ...
( Category: Photo Essays September 13,2015 )
Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football by John U. Bacon
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:John U. Bacon [Bacon, John U.]

CHAPTER 43 THE STUDENTS WIN A ROUND While the elected student government officers wrestled with general-admission seating, the elected Regents had to find a new president. Mary Sue Coleman’s two-year ...
( Category: State & Local September 12,2015 )
Other People's Money by Charles V. Bagli
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Charles V. Bagli

• • • For MetLife, the results of the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village transaction could not have been better. The sale sent the company’s share price to a fifty-two-week high ...
( Category: State & Local September 9,2015 )
The First Frontier by Scott Weidensaul
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-09-06 | Author:Scott Weidensaul [Weidensaul, Scott]

PART III “WE THAT CAME OUT OF THIS GROUND” Chapter 8 “One Head One Mouth, and One Heart” When the winter ice and snow melted, the runoff from thousands of ...
( Category: Colonial Period September 8,2015 )
Pinstripe Empire by Appel Marty
epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Appel, Marty [Appel, Marty]

DIMAGGIO WAITED UNTIL December 11 to make his plans public. Similar to what Ruth had done after his last Yankee season, he toured Japan and Korea with a traveling U.S. ...
( Category: State & Local September 8,2015 )
81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness by Brian Murphy
mobi |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Brian Murphy

Leon Crane, right, with his father Louis, who emigrated in 1913 from Ukraine to Philadelphia along with his wife Sonia. Crane had a letter from his father in his parka ...
( Category: World War II September 8,2015 )
81 Days Below Zero by Brian Murphy
epub |ara, eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Brian Murphy

The row house at 5464 Baltimore Avenue in West Philadelphia where Crane spent much of his boyhood with his two brothers and a sister. The neighborhood became a magnet for ...
( Category: World War II September 8,2015 )
Shots on the Bridge by Ronnie Greene
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Ronnie Greene [Greene, Ronnie]

FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, it was time to act. They began on the outside, approaching Detective Jeffrey Lehrmann, who worked closely with Kaufman in crafting the initial reports. The Feds ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism September 8,2015 )
Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer by Ogle Maureen
epub |eng | 2007-10-07 | Author:Ogle, Maureen [Ogle, Maureen]

OVER THE NEXT few decades, these new realities would reshape the brewing industry. The dearth of breweries created an opportunity for those smart enough—and wealthy enough—to grab it. Brewers who ...
( Category: Homebrewing, Distilling & Wine Making September 8,2015 )
Capital Ideas by Bernstein Peter L
epub |eng | 2012-08-23 | Author:Bernstein, Peter L.

Chapter 10 Risky Business Knack, feel, whim, and intuition are . . . useless relics. Markowitz, Tobin, and Sharpe all describe rational investors as masters of their fate. The theories ...
( Category: State & Local September 7,2015 )
Faces of Power by Brown Seyom
epub |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Brown, Seyom

The charge has been made that the United States has shipped weapons to Iran in ransom payment for the release of American hostages in Lebanon, that the United States undercut ...
( Category: Diplomacy September 5,2015 )
Whitey by Dick Lehr
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Dick Lehr [Lehr, Dick]

In this combustible atmosphere, Whitey Bulger may have backed off from street violence but he hardly retreated. Like most hard-liners in Southie, he brimmed with disdain for the Boston Globe, ...
( Category: State & Local September 5,2015 )
Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath by John L. Esposito
epub |eng | 2014-02-15 | Author:John L. Esposito [Esposito, John L.]

[Barney was there] every night.... His word was everything.... He was the owner, the actual owner and manager.... His word was the say at the Cocoanut Grove. Mickey Alpert 0 ...
( Category: England September 4,2015 )
Nightmare Alley: Film Noir And The American Dream by Mark Osteen
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Mark Osteen [Osteen, Mark]

To Build a Dream On Two 1950s noirs perpetuate the stereotype of musicians as overgrown children. Yet these films also present—implicitly, at least—the potential for new American identities founded on ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 3,2015 )

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