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Once Upon a Time in New York by Herbert Mitgang
epub |eng | 2000-10-15 | Author:Herbert Mitgang

Long afterward, the thievery of Sheriff Farley and the other members of the citywide tin-box brigade contributed to the creation of the 1959 Broadway musical comedy Fiorello! The brilliant lyrics ...
( Category: State & Local October 16,2014 )
Five Points by Tyler Anbinder
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tyler Anbinder [Anbinder, Tyler]

Frank Leslie’s depiction of a typical Roche Guard supporter. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, (July 11, 1857). Collection of the Library of Congress. While the origin of the term “Dead Rabbit” ...
( Category: Tap October 16,2014 )
Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past (Sexuality Studies) by Thomas A. Foster
epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Thomas A. Foster [Foster, Thomas A.]

Franklin and French Beauties As for Franklin's reputation while a widower in France, today Franklin appears to be the harmless older man and not the threatening sexual deviant. The "French ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding October 16,2014 )
Truck by Michael Perry
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Perry

Before I depart New York, my editor takes me to lunch at the Monkey Bar. I become uncomfortable with the stares of the men in the four-figure suits, to say ...
( Category: State & Local October 16,2014 )
The Doctor Wore Petticoats: Women Physicians of the Old West by Enss Chris
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-01 | Author:Enss, Chris [Enss, Chris]

ONE TIME HELPING TO DELIVER A CHILD LED PATTY BARTLETT SESSIONS TO PURSUE A MEDICAL PROFESSION. On Sunday, September 26, 1847, Patty assisted in the birth of the first male ...
( Category: Women October 16,2014 )
Country of Exiles by William R. Leach
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:William R. Leach

CAMPUS AS OUTSIDER HEAVEN The new university had one last aspect to it, which rounded out the internationalism shaped by the business alliances and by the recruitment of foreign-born talent. ...
( Category: United States October 16,2014 )
Peace Kills by P. J. O'Rourke
epub |eng | 2004-10-15 | Author:P. J. O'Rourke

Peter and I went ten miles south to Memphis, the capital of Egypt during most of pharaonic times. For three and a half millennia Memphis was the most important city ...
( Category: International & World Politics October 16,2014 )
The Heathen School by John Demos
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:John Demos [Demos, John]

The previous night, she is spirited away to a neighbor’s house, “it being thought unsafe for me to stay at home.” She is shown to an upstairs room, from which ...
( Category: State & Local October 16,2014 )
The Old Ball Game by Frank Deford
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-08-25 | Author:Frank Deford

THIRTEEN By 1912 the Literary Digest would write: “The name of Christy Mathewson . . . is known to about as many people as that of any man in the ...
( Category: State & Local October 16,2014 )
The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius by Joyce Chaplin
epub |eng | 1905-06-28 | Author:Joyce Chaplin [Chaplin, Joyce]

HIS DECISION to stay in London meant that he remained at the heart of an expanding empire, which daily offered up new opportunities in the sciences and just about everything ...
( Category: American Revolution October 14,2014 )
American Bravado by Renford Reese
epub |eng | 2008-01-07 | Author:Renford Reese [Reese, Renford]

Once we suffer large casualties, we will have started a well-nigh irreversible process. Our involvement will be so great that we cannot—without national humiliation—stop short of achieving our complete objectives. ...
( Category: History & Theory October 14,2014 )
Double Down: Game Change 2012 by Mark Halperin & John Heilemann
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Mark Halperin & John Heilemann

13 FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE MOTOR CITY AGAINST A BACKDROP OF royal blue drapes, flanked by American flags, the Romneys stood before a swarm of reporters just off the ...
( Category: Elections October 14,2014 )
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer William
mobi |eng | 2011-10-22 | Author:Shirer, William [Shirer, William]

“Then France will be the aggressor,” Ribbentrop said. “History will be the judge of that,” Coulondre replied. On that Sunday in Berlin all the participants in the final act of ...
( Category: Holocaust October 13,2014 )
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-08-04 | Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

ANNIHILATION UNTO TOTAL SURRENDER The US Army’s search-and-destroy missions and forced relocations (ethnic cleansing) in the West are well documented but perhaps not normally considered in the light of counterinsurgency. ...
( Category: Native American Studies October 13,2014 )
Cutting Corporate Welfare by Ralph Nader
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Ralph Nader [Nader, Ralph]

SPECIAL BAILOUT PROBLEMS The S&L looters are back. A federal judge in California has ruled that Congress broke the government’s contract with Glendale Federal Bank when capital based on goodwill ...
( Category: Economic Policy October 13,2014 )

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