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A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency by Glenn Greenwald
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-04-08 | Author:Glenn Greenwald

The Manichean cartoons that overrode virtually all substantive and responsible debate during the Bush presidency obscured a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the president’s approach to the world. Since ...
( Category: Executive Branch June 11,2015 )
Tried by War
mobi |eng | 2008-06-10 | Author:James M. McPherson

THE TIMING OF Lincoln’s public letters turned out to be fortuitous. Within a few days of their publication Union victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Port Hudson lifted the pall of ...
( Category: Civil War June 11,2015 )
American Heroines by Kay Bailey Hutchison
mobi |eng | 2009-01-25 | Author:Kay Bailey Hutchison

Latina Performers LATINA PERFORMERS GRAPPLED with obstacles similar to those with which African-American singers and actors contended. In the early years of Hollywood, before the advent of sound and even ...
( Category: Women in History June 11,2015 )
The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory by David Plouffe
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:David Plouffe

9 Agony. Ecstasy. Had the Clinton campaign approached the entire primary as they did Wyoming, it probably would not have changed the ultimate outcome. But it might have. It was ...
( Category: Elections June 11,2015 )
The Kingdom of New York: Knights, Knaves, Billionaires, and Beauties in the City of Big Shots by The New York Observer
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-23 | Author:The New York Observer

APRIL 17, 2000 BY ALEXANDRA JACOBS The Observatory; Remember the Royalton? Illustrated by Barry Blitt THE CONDÉ NAST CAFETERIA has only been open a week, but it’s already clear which ...
( Category: State & Local June 11,2015 )
Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack by Marc Thiessen
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-18 | Author:Marc Thiessen

OFTEN: 15 percent SOMETIMES: 34 percent RARELY: 22 percent NEVER: 25 percent Pew combines the "often justified" with "sometimes justified" to tabulate those in favor, and "rarely justified" with "never ...
( Category: Executive Branch June 11,2015 )
Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-02-15 | Author:Jeffrey A. Lockwood

A NEW KIND OF METAMORPHOSIS In his twenty-nine-page paper, Uvarov undertook what is called a taxonomic revision. In biology, the naming of species and their proper assignment to a particular ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders June 11,2015 )
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:David M. Kennedy

16 War in the Pacific The closest squeak and the greatest victory. —George C. Marshall Jr. on the Battle of Midway During the first days of December 1941, Admiral Isoroku ...
( Category: United States June 11,2015 )
Impeached by Stewart David O
mobi |eng | 2009-04-23 | Author:Stewart, David O. [Stewart, David O.]

William Evarts, New York lawyer, who led the president’s defense inside and outside of the Senate. Schofield kept a level head. He needed to be sure that his elevation would ...
( Category: United States June 11,2015 )
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-09-15 | Author:Jeff Sharlet

JESUS + 0 = X IN 2003, I PUBLISHED a portion of the account of Ivanwald with which I begin this book in Harper’s magazine. I might have left it ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism June 11,2015 )
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History,Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better by Tyler Cowen
mobi |eng | 2011-01-25 | 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 11,2015 )
American made: the enduring legacy of the WPA: when FDR put the nation to work by Nick Taylor
mobi |eng | 2008-02-26 | Author:Nick Taylor

13. THE AMERICAN GUIDES: IDAHO VERSUS WASHINGTON, D.C. The American Guides were slowly beginning to take shape. Even the dueling radicals came to understand that they had to show some ...
( Category: United States June 11,2015 )
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--And Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
mobi |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Andrew Ross Sorkin

The sixteenth floor of AIG was already a beehive of activity, with hundreds of bankers and lawyers roaming the floors, darting into the various rooms that had been set up ...
( Category: Economic History June 11,2015 )
Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America by Shirley Craig
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-29 | Author:Shirley, Craig [Shirley, Craig]

A story buried in the New York Times in late July casually mentioned an invitation Reagan had received to attend the Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi in early August, just ...
( Category: Elections June 11,2015 )
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Other American Stories by Hunter S. Thompson
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-12-14 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

I drove straight to the hotel after renting the car. There was still no sign of my attorney, so I decided to check in on my own - if only ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 11,2015 )

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