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Anything for a Vote by Joseph Cummins
epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Joseph Cummins [Cummins, Joseph]

WILSON’S STOLEN VALISE The only hint of a romantic scandal in this campaign came when Woodrow Wilson’s longtime friendship with a lovely divorcée named Mary Allen Peck was made public ...
( Category: Elections December 27,2014 )
The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
epub |eng | 2005-04-11 | Author:Russell Shorto

Chapter 11 AN AMERICAN IN EUROPE In January 1646 a coach, drawn by six horses, labored through the frozen ruts of a road in the German countryside. With gilt woodwork ...
( Category: Colonial Period December 27,2014 )
Historic Houston Streets by Marks Hinton
epub |eng | | Author:Marks Hinton

» MARKS: Street sign near location of E. H. Marks ranch MARLOWE: Christopher – This 16th century English dramatist’s writings had a profound influence on William Shakespeare. His works include ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
After Lincoln by A. J. Langguth
epub |eng | | Author:A. J. Langguth

Ulysses S. Grant CHAPTER 13 ULYSSES S. GRANT (1869) JULIA GRANT HAD BEEN RELIEVED when Andrew Johnson escaped conviction in the Senate. She sympathized with those who thought Johnson’s light ...
( Category: Civil War December 27,2014 )
Fireball by Robert Matzen
epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Robert Matzen [Matzen, Robert]

27. The Glamorous Life Alice Frances Getz was always special, the last of four born to Fred and Katie Getz of Kewanee, Illinois. The Getzes had thought Alice would be ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers December 27,2014 )
Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins by Ellen Sweets
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Ellen Sweets

This recipe is gonna scare the beejebers out of the hypochondriacs among us, because nobody believes you should leave chicken out for more than six seconds lest you contract some ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
One Small Candle: The Pilgrim's First Year in America (The Thomas Fleming Library) by Fleming Thomas
mobi |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Fleming, Thomas [Fleming, Thomas]

Twenty-four men, armed and armored as before and under Miles Standish’s command, boarded the shallop and the longboat. Those in the longboat were to go ashore and march down the ...
( Category: Colonial Period December 27,2014 )
Floyd Patterson by W. K. Stratton
epub |eng | | Author:W. K. Stratton

If Floyd had practiced self-denial at his training camps and in his choice of accommodations at earlier fights—a freezing jockey’s room, a rat-infested abandoned dancehall—he now indulged himself. He lodged ...
( Category: Boxing December 27,2014 )
The American Vice Presidency by Jules Witcover
epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Jules Witcover [Witcover, Jules]

CHARLES G. DAWES OF ILLINOIS One of the most accomplished of all American vice presidents joined the second presidential term of the accidental president Calvin Coolidge in 1925. But his ...
( Category: History & Theory December 27,2014 )
A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution by Theodore Draper
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Theodore Draper

12 “The very foundations of this Kingdom are sinking” • 1 • THE NEWS FROM AMERICA plunged British politics into turmoil. Never before had the British establishment been so obsessed ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding December 22,2014 )
Landslide : Lbj and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America (9780812994698) by Darman Jonathan
mobi |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Darman, Jonathan [Darman, Jonathan]

LADY BIRD’S POLITICAL instincts were superior to those of her husband, and to those of the rest of Washington as well. The print publications, assuming their readers would be equal ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 22,2014 )
The Turning Points in the Pacific: The Battle of Midway and the Guadalcanal Campaign by Charles River Editors
mobi |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Charles River Editors

Chapter 9: Midway’s Legacy The Americans had won a stunning victory at Midway, and it allowed for the U.S. not only to even up the crucial carrier numbers game but ...
( Category: World War II December 21,2014 )
The Other Wes Moore-One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
mobi |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Wes Moore

As I sat on the other end of the line, listening to my mother talk about “sacrifice,” I had no idea what my grandparents had given up. The five minutes ...
( Category: African-American Studies December 21,2014 )
Black Rebellion: Eyewitness Accounts of Major Slave Revolts by Sujan K. Dass
mobi |eng | 2010-01-25 | Author:Sujan K. Dass [Dass, Sujan K.]

SLAVE INSURRECTIONS Joshua Coffin Joshua Coffin (October 12, 1792 – June 24, 1864) was an American antiquary and abolitionist. Coffin was a headstrong proponent of emancipation, and was one of ...
( Category: Civil War December 20,2014 )
Bad Paper: Chasing Debt From Wall Street to the Underworld by Jake Halpern
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Jake Halpern [Halpern, Jake]

PART THREE THE LAST COLLECTORS 8 TAKING CONTROL OF ASSETS For all its roguish color, Las Vegas is the legitimate face of the debt-buying industry. It is the place where ...
( Category: United States December 20,2014 )

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