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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt
epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Eleanor Roosevelt [Roosevelt, Eleanor]

Twenty-three Visit to England IN RETROSPECT, the thing that strikes me about these days is my triple-barreled effort to work with the OCD, carry out my official engagements, and still ...
( Category: Women November 24,2014 )
Grand Opera: The Story of the Met by Affron Charles & Affron Mirella Jona
epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:Affron, Charles & Affron, Mirella Jona [Affron, Charles]

Made in USA Two weeks before his first night, Giulio Gatti-Casaza announced that the Met would at last present an American opera, Frederick S. Converse’s The Pipe of Desire. Soon ...
( Category: State & Local November 24,2014 )
While the World Watched by Carolyn McKinstry
epub |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Carolyn McKinstry

Chapter 12 The Most Dangerous Racist in America * * * [George Wallace is] perhaps the most dangerous racist in America. . . . I am not sure that he ...
( Category: State & Local November 24,2014 )
Patriots by A. J. Langguth
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:A. J. Langguth [Langguth, A. J.]

Thomas Jefferson in 1768 PRIVATE COLLECTION Jefferson 1775–76 EARLY IN the winter of 1776, John Adams read a new pamphlet with a provocative title. He sent a copy to Abigail ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 23,2014 )
Coming Ashore by Catherine Gildiner
epub |ara, eng | 2014-08-24 | Author:Catherine Gildiner

CHAPTER 13 five pillars of salt While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. — Angela Schwindt After the ...
( Category: State & Local November 23,2014 )
What Just Happened? by Art Linson
epub |eng | 2008-11-22 | Author:Art Linson

TEN Pushing Tin Downhill The expression pushing tin is not an inside joke coined by a traveling tuna can salesman. In the dimly lit operations room of the New York ...
( Category: Direction & Production November 23,2014 )
Elvis Presley by Williamson Joel
epub |eng | 2014-09-19 | Author:Williamson, Joel

Sheila Leaves Elvis was compelled to feel that he was a generous man, but Sheila Ryan had difficulty expressing unbounded gratitude for Elvis’s gifts. Joe tutored her. She had to ...
( Category: State & Local November 23,2014 )
The Means by Douglas Brunt
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Brunt

TOM PAULEY 28 “Selling is at least half of what I do. For the first time I see the appropriateness of the election process. It’s the best preparation there is ...
( Category: Political November 23,2014 )
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English

Domesticity Without the Science Ellen Richards and her colleagues never doubted the eventual success of their movement. Once she fantasized about “the college woman in 1950”: She will be so ...
( Category: United States November 23,2014 )
Even This I Get to Experience by Norman Lear
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Norman Lear

The program you are about to see is “All in the Family.” It seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices and concerns. By making them a source ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers November 23,2014 )
War Stories by Oliver North
epub |eng | | Author:Oliver North [North, Oliver]

By the time we return from the An Numaniyah FARP, the 2nd Tank Battalion has broken through the Iraqi defenses at Al Aziziyah and Mundy’s 3rd Battalion is in the ...
( Category: World War II November 23,2014 )
John Marshall by Harlow Giles Unger
epub |eng | | Author:Harlow Giles Unger [Unger, Harlow Giles]

The Philosophic Cock, by political cartoonist James Akin (1773–1846), shows President Thomas Jefferson as an admiring rooster and his slave Sally Hemings as the hen. The text in fine print ...
( Category: United States November 23,2014 )
Dallas 1963 by Bill Minutaglio
epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Bill Minutaglio [MINUTAGLIO, BILL/DAVIS, STEVEN L.]

Right now parents who had wanted their children to see the famous Dr. King are pulling their kids closer. James has to be afraid that this crowning moment, this civil ...
( Category: Executive Branch November 23,2014 )
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans by Gary Krist
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-28 | 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 November 23,2014 )
Trading with the Enemy by Philip Leigh
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Leigh

In Chesapeake Bay, vessels cleared from New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore for Washington, DC, would simply stop on the way to discharge cargo in Tidewater Virginia. Other cargoes shipped to ...
( Category: Civil War November 23,2014 )

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