United States
mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Truman, Harry S [Truman, Harry S]

The speech Truman sends Acheson is actually drawn from Truman’s Inaugural Address, not the State of the Union Message of 1949. The speech puts forward, like the Inaugural Address, a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Beck, Glenn [Beck, Glenn]

CHAPTER 16. Step Four: Decentralize and Disconnect The world of innovation and the world that is our federal government are on two separate bullet trains headed in opposite directions. Technology ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:McClanahan, Brion [McClanahan, Brion]

His career took a decided turn for the better after his marriage. Franklin published the Gazette and ran a shop that traded in a variety of commodities, possibly including slaves. ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Hillsdale College [College, Hillsdale]

* * * John Jay, "Jay to the English Anti-Slavery Society," June 21, 1788, in Henry Phelps Johnston, ed., The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, Vol. 3 (New ...
( Category: Constitutions October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:McClanahan, Brion [McClanahan, Brion]

While Lee, Jefferson, and Madison defended so-called congressional-executive agreements in relation to commerce alone, no member of the founding generation supported unilateral executive agreements, which they would have regarded as ...
( Category: History & Theory October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Cheney, Dick [Cheney, Dick]

Liz and Mary on election night 2000 reacting to the news that the networks had called the election for George W. Bush and me. It was a premature – but ...
( Category: Political October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Schweikart, Larry [Schweikart, Larry]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN War, Wilson, and Internationalism, 1912–20 The Dawn of Dreams At the turn of the century, the United States had joined much of the industrialized world in expecting that ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Barton, David [Barton, David]

Leland made a special trip from Massachusetts to the White House to bring his friend Jefferson a special gift: a giant cheese. Leland proposed that his flock should celebrate [Jefferson’s] ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Woods Jr, Thomas E

Chapter 10 THE MISUNDERSTOOD TWENTIES Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge usually wind up near the bottom in presidential rankings compiled by the votes of historians. This is no surprise; these ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Gutzman, Kevin R C [Gutzman, Kevin R C]

Legal Latinisms Habeas corpus: Latin for "you have the body." The primary function of a writ of habeas corpus is to release someone from unlawful imprisonment. It directs the person ...
( Category: Constitutions October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Woodward, Bob [Woodward, Bob]

( Category: Executive Branch October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Woods Jr, Thomas E [Woods Jr, Thomas E]

* * * …& THE TRUTH The casual assumption that discrimination is the source of all these problems is simply false. In many cases there is a wide range of ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1996-11-26 | Author:Thompson, Hunter S. [Thompson, Hunter S.]

3. Savage Lucy . . . ‘Teeth Like Baseballs, Eyes Like Jellied Fire’ I gave my bag to the boy who scurried up, and told him to bring a quart ...
( Category: Popular Culture October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Shashi Tharoor

8 “Commanding Heights”: 1947–1957 One man did not join the celebrations that midnight. Mahatma Gandhi stayed in Calcutta, fasting, striving to keep the peace in a city that just a ...
( Category: India October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Twain, Mark, Griffin, Benjamin

a[It is missing—BG.] b[This entry and the two after it were written by Livy—BG.] MARK TWAIN At the Farm Summer of 1884—Jean nearly 4 yrs old. She goes out to ...
( Category: United States October 16,2014 )