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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-02-15 | Author:Amity Shlaes [Shlaes, Amity]

RICE: You are in very keen competition with your competitors? SCHECHTER: I do not understand that question. RICE: Do you know what competition means? SCHECHTER: I do. RICE: There is ...
( Category: United States June 12,2015 )
The Scouts of Stonewall by Joseph A. Altsheler
epub |eng | 2006-05-22 | Author:Joseph A. Altsheler [Altsheler, Joseph A.]

"Which way do you think we're going?" said the young staff officer, George Dalton, to Harry-Dalton was a quiet youth with a good deal of the Puritan about him and ...
( Category: United States June 12,2015 )
Reckless Endangerment by Gretchen Morgenson
epub |eng | 2011-07-02 | Author:Gretchen Morgenson [Morgenson, Gretchen]

If the ratings agencies were doing excellent work on behalf of the banks and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, they continued to do shoddy work for investors and taxpayers. After ...
( Category: Economic History June 12,2015 )
What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe
epub |eng | 2007-06-11 | Author:Daniel Walker Howe

49. William Paley, Natural Theology; or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature (Boston, Mass., 1831), 19–38. For context, see John Hedley ...
( Category: United States June 12,2015 )
DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY BUT NEVER LEARNED (Don't Know Much About...(Paperback)) by Kenneth C. Davis
epub |eng | 2004-04-01 | Author:Kenneth C. Davis [Davis, Kenneth C.]

338 D O N ’ T K N O W M U C H A B O U T H I S T O R Y neers introduced the moving ...
( Category: Reference June 12,2015 )
Nixonland by Rick Perlstein
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-06-11 | Author:Rick Perlstein

Be that as it may, it worked. “Everyone is scared about licenses,” a network executive explained to the Los Angeles Times. “You can’t have a television station without a government ...
( Category: Executive Branch June 12,2015 )
Columbine (2010) by Cullen Dave
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Cullen, Dave [Dave, Cullen,]

____ As the conspiracy theory crumbled, far from the eyes of the public, a new motive emerged. The jock-feud theory was accepted as the underlying driver, but that had supposedly ...
( Category: State & Local June 12,2015 )
Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Chuck Palahniuk

Getting Off: How to Knock Off a Piece in Portland “THE JIG’S UP—people are having sex in Portland,” says Teresa Dulce. An advocate for Portland’s sex workers and the publisher ...
( Category: Portland June 12,2015 )
The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution by Richard Beeman
epub |eng | 2010-07-25 | Author:Richard Beeman

FEDERALIST NO. 78: ALEXANDER HAMILTON, MAY 28, 1788 “Federalist No. 78” is Alexander Hamilton’s most significant contribution to The Federalist Papers. The principle topic of the essay is the importance ...
( Category: Constitutions June 12,2015 )
The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
epub |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Tyler Cowen

Most Web activities do not generate jobs and revenue at the rate of past technological breakthroughs. When Ford and General Motors were growing in the early part of the twentieth ...
( Category: Planning & Forecasting June 12,2015 )
Seven Events That Made America America by Larry Schweikart
epub |eng | 2010-05-05 | Author:Larry Schweikart

6. RONALD REAGAN TRIES TO KEEP THE PEACE . . . AND MAKES HIS BIGGEST MISTAKE It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, ...
( Category: United States June 12,2015 )
Moonshot by Dan Parry
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Dan Parry [Dan Parry]

Chapter 10 PUSHED TO THE LIMIT The final say on whether Apollo 11 would launch on schedule was down to the crew as much as anyone, and determined to make ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight June 12,2015 )
Our Man in Tehran by Robert Wright
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Robert Wright [Wright, Robert]

In Ottawa, meanwhile, the opposition Liberals were doing everything in their power to confound the government’s efforts to keep a lid on Canada’s role in the hostage crisis. Day after ...
( Category: Diplomacy June 12,2015 )
The Big Oyster by Mark Kurlansky
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-01-08 | Author:Mark Kurlansky

Something ought to be done for the honour of the city, if for no other reason than to render the place less disgusting and pernicious, it being the resort of ...
( Category: State & Local June 12,2015 )
43* by Jeff Greenfield
epub |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:Jeff Greenfield

September 11, 2001 “I can’t believe it!” First Officer LeRoy Homer said to Jason Dahl, the pilot of the Boeing 757. “Wheels up at 8:10? At Newark? When was the ...
( Category: Executive Branch June 12,2015 )

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