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The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies by Jonathan Alter
mobi |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Jonathan Alter

MOST VOTERS IN 2012 knew nothing of George Romney’s centrist record, but they suspected that his son might govern as a moderate, as he had in Massachusetts. Romney played on ...
( Category: History & Theory October 1,2014 )
Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-07 | Author:Susan Jacoby

If many agnostics attempted to conceal the extent of their participation in the women’s movement, they were entirely open about their role in the battle against late-nineteenth-century censorship. There was ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State September 29,2014 )
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
mobi | | | Author:The Bully Pulpit

( Category: Leadership September 29,2014 )
Alexander Hamilton by Chernow Ron
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-11 | Author:Chernow, Ron [Chernow, Ron]

TWENTY-TWO STABBED IN THE DARK E ven as their feud worsened, both Hamilton and Jefferson pleaded with Washington to stand for a second term as president. It may have been ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 29,2014 )
Eisenhower: The White House Years by Jim Newton
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Jim Newton

12 On the Edge The trouble began, as it would so often, in the Middle East. Its origins in some ways resembled the Iran crisis that greeted Eisenhower when he ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 29,2014 )
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Candice Millard

THAT NIGHT, after the men, now numbering only twenty-one, had finished their portage around the last waterfall, they retired to their tents and hammocks. Hunched over his small table, Roosevelt ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 29,2014 )
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Gordon S. Wood

13 Republican Reforms Despite all the increased violence and rioting, despite all the anxiety over America’s climate, despite all the hand-wringing over so much licentiousness spreading everywhere, by the early ...
( Category: History & Theory September 29,2014 )
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Rick Perlstein

Goldwater’s official campaign headquarters was on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. To run it, the Arizona Mafia decided they needed a big name. The particular name they chose, alas, belonged ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism September 29,2014 )
The New New Deal by Grunwald Michael
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Grunwald, Michael [Grunwald, Michael]

“A Very Narrow Party of Angry People” Mount Redoubt did feel like a hint from the universe that the Republican Party was blowing itself up.281 Minority parties often look inept ...
( Category: National September 29,2014 )
Mann, Charles
mobi | | | Author:1493

( Category: Colonial Period September 29,2014 )
Framingham Legends & Lore by James L. Parr
epub |eng | 2013-09-28 | Author:James L. Parr

THE ORDEAL OF JONATHAN MAYNARD Jonathan Maynard was born on January 22, 1752, the son of Jonathan and Martha (Gleason) Maynard. His parents’ house was located on the north side ...
( Category: State & Local September 29,2014 )
The Assassination of Fred Hampton by Jeffrey Haas
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Jeffrey Haas [Haas, Jeffrey]

In 1974, PLO was in its fifth year. Our clients included the Attica Brothers, Puerto Rican Independentistas, the Hampton plaintiffs, and the antiwar movement. Arthur Kinoy said that movement lawyers ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 29,2014 )
The Terror Courts by Jess Bravin
epub |eng | 2013-09-28 | Author:Jess Bravin

10 Mr. Bean THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WASTED no time appealing Judge Robertson’s order. By holding the United States to its treaty obligations, Robertson had interfered with “important military determinations of ...
( Category: Specific Topics September 29,2014 )
Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by Paine Thomas & Mark Philp
mobi |eng | 1995-01-19 | Author:Paine, Thomas & Mark Philp [Paine, Thomas]

Having thus spoken of constitutions generally, as things distinct from actual governments, let us proceed to consider the parts of which a constitution is composed. Opinions differ more on this ...
( Category: History & Theory September 29,2014 )
Imperial by William T. Vollmann
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-07-30 | Author:William T. Vollmann [Vollmann, William T.]

Welcome to the Coachella Valley. Desert scrub is the dominant habitat here, but the influences of nearby agriculture, urbanization and natural and ornamental oases add to the richness of the ...
( Category: Photo Essays September 29,2014 )

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