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Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked-Tailed Elephant, P. T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison by Michael Daly
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Michael Daly [Daly, Michael]

FIFTEEN Another War Begins Even as the torchlight parade down Broadway signaled the end of the war between Forepaugh and Barnum, the electric lights proliferating in the city and far ...
( Category: Circus November 23,2014 )
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years by Talbot David
epub |eng | 2007-05-07 | Author:Talbot, David [Talbot, David]

5 DALLAS President Kennedy looked tired and somber as he stood at the lectern in the spacious State Department Auditorium on Halloween 1963. There were dark bags beneath his eyes ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 23,2014 )
Southern League by Larry Colton
epub |eng | 2103-05-13 | Author:Larry Colton [COLTON, LARRY]

CHAPTER 29 Haywood Sullivan A Baseball Ritual No sport embraces its eccentricities as much as baseball, with its seventh-inning stretch, ubiquitous spitting, interminable statistics, and the time-honored skirmish between manager ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism November 22,2014 )
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:William J. Mann [Mann, William J.]

At last, after more than a week in seclusion, Zukor emerged from the studio. Striding out to the waiting reporters, he announced that he had developed new guidelines for the ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem November 22,2014 )
Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Chris Matthews
azw3 |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Chris Matthews

CHAPTER TWELVE CHARISMA How does Jack get them girls to squeal that way? —Senator Herman Talmadge of Georgia Jack Kennedy’s singular personal appeal was recognized by Ken O’Donnell for the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 22,2014 )
America in Retreat by Bret Stephens
epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Bret Stephens

WHAT IS GLOBAL DISORDER? Let’s be clear about what disorder is not: Disorder is not disaster—although it is frequently conducive to disaster. Disorder needn’t mean decline: the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
( Category: Diplomacy November 20,2014 )
You Learn By Living by Roosevelt Eleanor
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Roosevelt, Eleanor [Roosevelt, Eleanor]

7 The Right to Be an Individual WE ARE facing a great danger today—the loss of our individuality. It is besieged on all sides by pressures to conform: to a ...
( Category: United States November 19,2014 )
Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts by Mark Bowden
epub |eng | 2006-03-28 | Author:Mark Bowden [Bowden, Mark]

This proved to be the high point of the afternoon for the Eagles and their fans. The Patriots went on to score two touchdowns in succession, taking a 17–7 lead ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction November 19,2014 )
Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence by Jack Kelly
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Jack Kelly [Kelly, Jack]

Thirteen The Discipline of the Leggs 1778 “You might have tracked the army from White Marsh to Valley Forge by the blood of their feet,” George Washington wrote.1 A private ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 19,2014 )
We Sell Drugs: The Alchemy of US Empire by Suzanna Reiss
epub |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Suzanna Reiss [Reiss, Suzanna]

THE NARCOTIC FARM At mid-century, drug development and experimentation (particularly when involving the use of human subjects) tended to occur (or at least get documented) within public institutional settings. In ...
( Category: Criminology November 19,2014 )
The Colonel and Little Missie by Larry McMurtry
epub |eng | 2005-11-18 | Author:Larry McMurtry

5 ONE aspect of late-nineteenth-century performance that has long since gone the way of the passenger pigeon was the endurance shoot, in which contestants fired thousands of bullets or pellets ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers November 19,2014 )
No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt by Doris Kearns Goodwin
epub |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin [Goodwin, Doris Kearns]

CHAPTER 16 “THE GREATEST MAN I HAVE EVER KNOWN” The President was in high spirits in the early days of 1943. At midnight, January 9, he was set to begin ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 19,2014 )
Frank Lloyd Wright on the West Coast by Mark Anthony Wilson
epub |eng | 2014-11-18 | Author:Mark Anthony Wilson

Berger House, San Anselmo, California (1950–58), Robert Berger building masonry core, c. 1955. Courtesy of Berger Family Collection. Berger House, south façade. Berger House, floor plan. Copyright © The Frank ...
( Category: State & Local November 19,2014 )
Empires of Light by Jill Jonnes
epub |eng | 2003-08-18 | Author:Jill Jonnes

Having emerged from the shadows, Thomas Edison did not retreat again. He now proceeded to use the full force of his monumental fame and prestige to persuade the public and ...
( Category: Electricity November 18,2014 )
The Mark Inside by Amy Reading
epub |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Amy Reading [Reading, Amy]

They began with Seventeenth Street, aiming to turn it into a more comfortable home for eastern capital. Already, a prime triangle of land at Tremont Place on which a single ...
( Category: United States November 18,2014 )

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