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Can't Anybody Here Play this Game?-The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year by Jimmy Breslin
mobi |eng | 1963-04-28 | Author:Jimmy Breslin

5 “They’re Afraid to Come Out” THE SECOND HALF OF the season for the New York Mets was, generally speaking, a catastrophe. The second half of the season consisted of ...
( Category: State & Local January 19,2015 )
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
epub, mobi |eng | 1807-01-18 | Author:Thomas Paine [Paine, Thomas]

Table of the Prophets, with the time in which they lived before Christ, and also before the books of Kings and Chronicles were written: Name: Isaiah Years before Christ: 760 ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2015 )
JFK: History in an Hour by Sinead Fitzgibbon
epub |eng | 2012-07-29 | Author:Sinead Fitzgibbon [Fitzgibbon, Sinead]

But amid the optimism and ceremony on that bitter cold January day in 1961, neither Kennedy nor the US people could have known just how soon these lofty ideals would ...
( Category: Leadership January 18,2015 )
GEORGE WASHINGTON: History in an Hour by David B. McCoy
epub |eng | 2012-07-29 | Author:David B. McCoy [McCoy, David B.]

Washington leading troops during the Whiskey Rebellion Jefferson and his allies in the Southern States were rooted in the centuries-old agricultural culture. They saw the adoption of Hamilton’s three-pronged plan ...
( Category: Leadership January 18,2015 )
The Korean War: History in an Hour by Andrew Mulholland
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Andrew Mulholland [Mulholland, Andrew]

Entrenched: Peace Talks and Military Stalemate Initial Peace Talks, July–August 1951 The first round of peace talks during the Korean War was to prove a frustrating failure. Their breakdown at ...
( Category: Korea January 18,2015 )
The Vietnam War: History in an Hour by Neil Smith
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Neil Smith [Smith, Neil]

An anti-Vietnam demonstrator offers a flower to military police at the Pentagon. Arlington, Virginia, October 1967 NARA The real successes of the anti-war movement occurred during Richard Nixon’s presidency. His ...
( Category: United States January 18,2015 )
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Richard Rhodes

The target sphere could be simply welded to the muzzle of a cannon; then the cylinder, which might weigh about a hundred pounds, could be fired up the barrel like ...
( Category: Nuclear January 18,2015 )
Killing Machine : The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare (9781595589439) by Gardner Lloyd C
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gardner, Lloyd C. [Gardner, Lloyd C.]

The Lead-in to Neptune’s Spear The compound at Abbottabad, a midsize city only an hour’s drive from Islamabad, was where Osama bin Laden had lived in secret for six years. ...
( Category: Executive Branch January 18,2015 )
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Webb Gary
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-06-30 | Author:Webb, Gary [Webb, Gary]

15 "This thing is a tidal wave" That summer, three years after crack exploded in South Central L.A., the national news media finally figured out M what was happening. Within ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction January 13,2015 )
Empire of Sin by Gary Krist
epub |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Gary Krist [Krist, Gary]

UP on Esplanade Avenue—far from the ongoing turmoil in Black and White Storyville—retired madam Josie Arlington had fallen gravely ill. Sometime in early 1913, right around the time of the ...
( Category: State & Local January 12,2015 )
Belonging: A Culture of Place by Bell Hooks
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-22 | Author:Bell Hooks [Hooks, Bell]

10 Earthbound: On Solid Ground Kentucky hills were the place of my early childhood. Surrounded by a wilderness of honeysuckle, wild asparagus, and sheltering trees, bushes shielding growing crops, the ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 12,2015 )
Nixon's Secrets by Stone Roger Colapietro Mike
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-01-11 | Author:Stone, Roger, Colapietro, Mike

NOTES 1. Richard Nixon, In the Arena, p. 255. 2. Ibid. 3. Stephen Ambrose, Nixon: The Education of a Politician, p. 650. 4. Jules Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, p. ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies January 12,2015 )
Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Brandon Stanton [Stanton, Brandon]

( Category: State & Local January 11,2015 )
Document
mobi |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Unknown

His mind skipped from the lake to the Thanh Hoa station, which was burning fiercely after the bombing raids. Everything that could burn was burning. From the capsized train men, ...
( Category: History & Theory January 10,2015 )
My Misspent Youth: Essays by Daum Meghan
azw3 |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Daum, Meghan [Daum, Meghan]

TOY CHILDREN Though I had a stuffed-animal collection that rivaled the inventory of a Toys “R” Us, I was a child who hated dolls. By “hate,” I’m not talking about ...
( Category: Essays January 8,2015 )

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