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The World of Indigenous North America (Routledge Worlds) by
azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:

In one of Samson Occom’s sermons in Bristol in the 1770s, he spoke of a natural human resistance to the Bible, and the importance of supernatural inspiration in receiving the ...
( Category: Native American Studies November 18,2014 )
Waking from the Dream : The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Chappell David L
mobi |eng | 2014-01-14 | Author:Chappell, David L. [Chappell, David L.]

Coretta King’s memoir, published in 1969, is unsurprisingly mute on the subject of adultery. But it provides a view of the charged context, and the stakes, of his behavior. Reflecting ...
( Category: African-American Studies November 16,2014 )
Waking from the Dream : The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr. (9780812994667) by Chappell David L
epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:Chappell, David L. [Chappell, David L.]

( Category: African-American Studies November 16,2014 )
41 A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush
azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:George W. Bush

THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE WHEN LEE ATWATER SUGGESTED that I move to Washington to help in Dad’s campaign, I was intrigued. The timing seemed right. I had just ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 15,2014 )
41: A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:George W. Bush

THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE WHEN LEE ATWATER SUGGESTED that I move to Washington to help in Dad’s campaign, I was intrigued. The timing seemed right. I had just ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 15,2014 )
Not in Your Lifetime: The Assassination of JFK by Summers Anthony
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Summers, Anthony [Summers, Anthony]

CHAPTER 20 Facts and Appearances “Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability of appearance.” —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary The real Lee Harvey Oswald made a mundane return to the United ...
( Category: United States November 14,2014 )
Tip and the Gipper by Chris Matthews
mobi |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Chris Matthews

Momentarily stunned, staff members of the Senate Republican Conference who had worked hard to arrange the event, sprang to the defense of their pie, leaping into the apples and attempting ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 13,2014 )
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
mobi |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

CHAPTER NINETEEN “To Cut Mr. Taft in Two!” This Mar. 18, 1906, cartoon, “Reinforcing the Bench,” shows Roosevelt using a “Big Stick” to persuade Taft to take a seat on ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 13,2014 )
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Eric Schlosser [Schlosser, Eric]

Epilogue The sociologist Charles B. Perrow began his research on dangerous technologies in August 1979, after the partial meltdown of the core at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. ...
( Category: Nuclear November 13,2014 )
A Cruel and Shocking Act by Philip Shenon
epub |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Philip Shenon [Shenon, Philip]

35 THE OFFICES OF THE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, DC MAY 1964 At their late-night staff dinners, Specter and some of the other young lawyers began to mock the commissioners. They joked ...
( Category: Executive Branch November 13,2014 )
Days of Fire by Peter Baker
mobi |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Peter Baker

BUSH HAD HAD IT with the conservatives who were beating up Harriet Miers. The more they attacked her, the more he dug in. “I do not care about them at ...
( Category: Executive Branch November 13,2014 )
The Kennedy Half-Century by Larry J. Sabato
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Larry J. Sabato [Sabato, Larry J.]

Ford also left behind a somewhat surprising call for the complete release of all classified documents relating to the Kennedy assassination—an entreaty yet to be heeded, since fifty-thousand-plus pages of ...
( Category: United States November 13,2014 )
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

PART IV WHEN the AMERICAN STORY Was FANNED by FIRE 1811–1956 On April 27, 2005, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) . . . published the Final Rule on the Use ...
( Category: United States November 13,2014 )
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Gilbert King

CHAPTER 15: YOU HAVE PISSED IN MY WHISKEY Sheriff Willis McCall. (Courtesy of the State Archives of Florida) THURGOOD MARSHALL SENT a twelve-word telegram to Dellia Irvin: “Won new trial ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism November 13,2014 )
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Jill Lepore [Lepore, Jill]

The family in 1946. Left to right: Huntley, Byrne, O.A., Pete, Marston, Olive Byrne, Donn, and Holloway (illustration credit 28.2) Hedy Lamarr, Fuzzy, and Molecat were rabbits. They’d had pet ...
( Category: United States November 12,2014 )

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