United States
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:Suzanne McGee [McGee, Suzanne]

Efforts at Reform? Several Wall Street firms began to tweak their compensation packages in late 2008 in response to the public outrage, introducing the concept of the clawback to investment ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-10 | Author:David Axelrod [David Axelrod]

EIGHTEEN TO HELL (OR AT LEAST ALTOONA) AND BACK IT COULD HAVE BEEN called “Wright’s Greatest Hits,” a carefully edited video of some of the reverend’s most incendiary sound bites. ...
( Category: National March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-19 | Author:Frederick Kempe [Kempe, Frederick]

Lincoln scribbled furiously in shorthand as Kennedy continued to dictate, the words falling into perfect sentences and paragraphs. This means that if the United States and the Soviet Union become ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 3,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Lewis, Anthony [Lewis, Anthony]

16 INSIDE THE COURT IT WAS just two months and three days from the argument of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan to the decision. This was a short time ...
( Category: General March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Napolitano, Andrew P. [Napolitano, Andrew P.]

Theodore Roosevelt: The Trustbuster The power for the federal government to regulate interstate commerce comes from Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution, or the Commerce Clause. The Commerce Clause ...
( Category: History & Theory March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-23 | Author:Earl Swift [Swift, Earl]

It didn't take long for the states to jump on the program. Barely a month after the president signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, they had more than $800 ...
( Category: Transportation February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub | | 2002-09-15 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

Chapter Seven The Ardennes: December 16-19, 1944 WHEN THE Americans reached the German border, their best intelligence sources dried up. Inside Germany the Wehrmacht used secure telephone lines rather than ...
( Category: World War II February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Andrew Ross Sorkin [Sorkin, Andrew Ross]

John Mack pulled out his cell phone the moment he left the New York Fed Building to report back to the office. “Guys, it’s going to be a long night,” ...
( Category: Government & Business February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Kinzer, Stephen [Kinzer, Stephen]

8 THE SELF-INTOXICATED PRESIDENT Rarely has a head of state anticipated a visit to the United States as eagerly as President Sukarno of Indonesia. American history fascinated him. As a ...
( Category: Executive Branch February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eve LaPlante

11 AN UNEASY AND CONSTANT WATCH “The prisoner,” as John Winthrop took to calling Anne Hutchinson that winter, saw little of her children during her house arrest. One-year-old Zuriel; Susan, ...
( Category: State & Local February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Brian Turner [Turner, Brian]

76 Who can say what made Papa raise his left arm on a December morning in the Solomon Islands? What was it that caught his attention? The Marine patrol stopped, ...
( Category: Military February 13,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-08-09 | Author:Smith, Adam [Smith, Adam]

CHAPTER V . OF BOUNTIES. Bounties upon exportation are, in Great Britain, frequently petitioned for, and sometimes granted, to the produce of particular branches of domestic industry. By means of ...
( Category: Colonial Period February 13,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-07-08 | Author:Schlesinger, Jr.", Arthur M. ["Schlesinger, Jr.", Arthur M.]

III Some of the changes of 1935 were at first hard to detect. But what was unmistakable was the change in personnel. The key figures of the First New Deal ...
( Category: United States February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:William Manchester [Manchester, William]

By now McLeod was distraught. Trapped between warring giants, he sought refuge in the White House. It was all a grotesque mistake, he told Adams and Persons. He had merely ...
( Category: United States February 13,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-07-23 | Author:Friedman, Thomas L. [Friedman, Thomas L.]

( Category: Human Geography February 12,2015 )