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The REAL Roosevelts: An Omitted History: What PBS & Ken Burns Didn't Tell You by King M
epub |eng | 2015-04-08 | Author:King, M [King, M]

1- New Yorker Magazine depicts a grinning FDR riding in car with Hoover on the way to his inauguration. 2- According to former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan; (and anyone else ...
( Category: United States July 19,2015 )
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:Jimmy Carter [Carter, Jimmy]

Worship, and Foreign Leaders My religious faith had become a minor issue during the campaign, when I responded “yes” to a reporter’s question, “Are you a born-again Christian?” Some reporters ...
( Category: History & Theory July 18,2015 )
Big Science by Michael Hiltzik
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Hiltzik [Hiltzik, Michael]

Chapter Fourteen * * * The Road to Trinity The course of the war had outrun work on the bomb, rendering the Allied scientists’ concerns about a Nazi bomb program ...
( Category: United States July 18,2015 )
Mr. Wilson's War by John Dos Passos
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:John Dos Passos [Passos, John Dos]

Weekending with Sir Douglas Pershing and his staff were so busy working on plans for the future and getting acquainted with the French that it was late in July before ...
( Category: United States July 17,2015 )
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order (Council on Foreign Relations Books (Princeton University Press)) by Steil Benn
epub |eng | 2013-02-10 | Author:Steil, Benn [Steil, Benn]

Despite the amicable British climbdown on the location issue, Keynes erupted the very next day. Curiously, the matter was an obscure one: the future of the Bank for International Settlements ...
( Category: United States July 16,2015 )
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H. W. Brands
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:H. W. Brands

On March 29 Grant began moving. The rain had stopped and roads begun to dry. But the army was scarcely in motion when the skies opened again. “The heavy rains ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 15,2015 )
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Hermes Will
epub |eng | 2011-10-06 | Author:Hermes, Will [Hermes, Will]

Steve Reich put the finishing touches on Music for 18 Musicians in March, and after a few more group rehearsals in his loft space on Warren Street off Church, he ...
( Category: Popular July 13,2015 )
Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide by Michael B. Oren
epub, azw |eng | 2015-06-22 | Author:Michael B. Oren [Oren, Michael B.]

Wintry Spring His name, Mohammed Bouazizi, would soon be forgotten, but not his act. Slapped, spat at in the face, and berated by a police officer on December 17, 2010, ...
( Category: United States July 13,2015 )
A Goodfella's Guide to New York by Henry Hill
epub |eng | 2003-07-11 | Author:Henry Hill [Hill, Henry]

Nuova Villa Tammaro Restaurant West 15th Street and Boardwalk Coney Island, Brooklyn 1931 Joseph “Joe The Boss” Masseria and his friend, Charles “Lucky” Luciano, decided to have lunch at one ...
( Category: State & Local July 12,2015 )
Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville
epub |eng | 2006-01-20 | Author:Alexis de Tocqueville [Tocqueville, Alexis de]

Chapter X: The Young Woman In The Character Of A Wife In America the independence of woman is irrevocably lost in the bonds of matrimony: if an unmarried woman is ...
( Category: United States July 10,2015 )
A Short History of the United States by Channing Edward
mobi |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Channing, Edward [Channing, Edward]

THE UNITED STATES IN 1819 Reasons for the purchase of Florida. Jackson invades Florida, 1818. The Florida purchase, 1819. 280. The Florida Treaty, 1819.--While this contest was going on, the ...
( Category: United States July 9,2015 )
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by John H. Elliott
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:John H. Elliott [Elliott, John H.]

The Indians did their best to resist these encroachments and fought back with all the legal weapons at their disposal where they could.57 The legal rights they enjoyed, even if ...
( Category: United States July 9,2015 )
The End of Wall Street by Roger Lowenstein
mobi, epub |ru | 2010-05-23 | Author:Roger Lowenstein

While AIG remained largely out of view, Lehman’s drama had attained the aspect of public theater. Reporters staked out its headquarters, television pundits opined on the odds of its survival, ...
( Category: State & Local June 29,2015 )
Bitter Brew by William Knoedelseder
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William Knoedelseder

15 “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?” After bailing his son out of trouble in Tucson, August III made sure the “Busch heir” had a soft landing back home in ...
( Category: United States June 23,2015 )
Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America by Winkler Adam
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Winkler, Adam [Winkler, Adam]

CHAPTER 8 BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY THE SEATING IN THE SUPREME COURT IS NOT DESIGNED well for spectators. The floor has no pitch, so when the courtroom is crowded you ...
( Category: Specific Topics June 22,2015 )

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