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Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte by Berkin Carol
epub |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Berkin, Carol [Berkin, Carol]

Chapter Eleven “That Was My American Wife” While the debacle of Bo’s proposed marriage played itself out, Betsy began a peripatetic life in Europe, dividing her time between Geneva, Florence, ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 2 by Allan H. Meltzer
epub |eng | | Author:Allan H. Meltzer

124. Includes reserve position in the International Monetary Fund. Excluding the reserve, the decline was 8.7 percent in 1960. 125. The new administration began planning for the speech before the ...
( Category: Economic History January 29,2015 )
God'll Cut You Down : The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, Amurder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi (9780698170537) by Safran John
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Safran, John

Plan B So much for the big set piece. I was counting on the trial to settle the questions of what Richard Barrett was thinking that night, and what Vincent ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
A Time to Stand by Walter Lord
epub |eng | 2012-01-28 | Author:Walter Lord [Lord, Walter]

CHAPTER ELEVEN “Take Care of My Little Boy” IN THE DIM MOONLIGHT that bathed the Alamo plaza, John W. Smith saddled up once again. It was nearly midnight, Thursday, March ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
The Company Town by Hardy Green
epub |eng | 2010-07-26 | Author:Hardy Green

During the 1910s, the steel industry seemed to arrive at a formula for avoiding industrial strife. The corporations were not above coal-industry-like repression, albeit of a less violent nature: Many ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )
The Invisible Line
epub |eng | 2011-01-23 | Author:Daniel J. Sharfstein

THE NEXT DAY, WALL was called back to the committee so that other senators on the panel could question him. Defending his home state, Senator Vance suggested that Wall was ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 29,2015 )
A Desert Reckoning by Deanne Stillman
epub |eng | | Author:Deanne Stillman

TENDER GOODNESS Sit in the mud, my friend, and aspire to the skies! —Ivan Turgenev, “Enough” FOR TEN YEARS OR SO, DON’S FAMILY HAD NO CONTACT WITH him. There were ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
State by State
epub |eng | 2008-01-28 | Author:Matt Weiland

Suki says a girl in Bosnia sent him a letter after reading Tom Sawyer. “Dear Editor,” the letter began, “I am a Bosnian girl who has never seen the sea. ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
Connections by James Burke
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-07-02 | Author:James Burke [Burke, James]

A painting (1438) of St. Barbara, incorporating the latest luxuries afforded by the presence of the chimney. Wooden furniture keeps her feet off the tiled floor, glass windows are backed ...
( Category: History January 29,2015 )
BOWLING ALONE by Robert D. Putnam
epub |eng | 2000-01-25 | Author:Robert D. Putnam

SOCIAL CAPITAL AFFECTS NOT ONLY what goes into politics, but also what comes out of it. The best illustration of the powerful impact of civic engagement on government performance comes ...
( Category: Curricula January 26,2015 )
Black Hawk : The Battle for the Heart of America (9781466860926) by Trask Kerry A
epub |eng | | Author:Trask, Kerry A.

9 THE GREAT FEAR A wide frontier had been laid naked by this unexpected disaster, and more substantial evils were preceded by a thousand fanciful and imaginary dangers. James Fenimore ...
( Category: State & Local January 24,2015 )
Black Hawk : The Battle for the Heart of America by Trask Kerry A
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Trask, Kerry A. [Trask, Kerry A.]

9 THE GREAT FEAR A wide frontier had been laid naked by this unexpected disaster, and more substantial evils were preceded by a thousand fanciful and imaginary dangers. James Fenimore ...
( Category: State & Local January 24,2015 )
How Baseball Explains America by Hal Bodley
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Hal Bodley [Bodley, Hal]

10. The Dream Is Alive in Oakland Across the choppy waters of San Francisco Bay the city of Oakland rises out of the fog, almost like a little boy standing ...
( Category: United States January 20,2015 )
Wrapped in the Flag by Claire Conner
epub |eng | | Author:Claire Conner

Pizza and beer helped my attitude but did nothing to change my problem: Dr. Kendall did not like me. Ironically, my brother—as much a Birch baby as I was—escaped Kendall’s ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism January 20,2015 )
Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees From Before the Babe to After the Boss by Marty Appel
epub |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Marty Appel [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 January 20,2015 )

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