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The Admiral and the Ambassador by Scott Martelle
epub |eng | 2014-06-22 | Author:Scott Martelle

The search began in earnest in late June 1899, with a series of letters and inquiries to various French political figures and bureaucrats. Vignaud, a voracious reader of the Parisian ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 23,2014 )
Hard Choices: A Memoir by Hillary Rodham Clinton
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-06-10 | Author:Hillary Rodham Clinton [Clinton, Hillary Rodham]

15 The Arab Spring: Revolution They’re sitting on a powder keg and if they don’t change, it’s going to explode.” I was exasperated. It was the first week of January ...
( Category: United States June 23,2014 )
740 Park by Michael Gross
azw3 |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:Michael Gross

22 AS IN THE DAYS OF JAMES T. LEE, A FEW 740 FAMILIES LIVED APART from, even unaware of, the building’s influential web. Bartholomew Barry was a textile broker from ...
( Category: State & Local June 21,2014 )
The Most Dangerous Man in America by Mark Perry
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Perry

Although 1942 was a bad year for Roosevelt, it was even worse for MacArthur. Morose over his escape from Corregidor, stunned by the lack of resources that greeted him in ...
( Category: Military June 20,2014 )
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames by Kai Bird
epub |eng | 2014-05-20 | Author:Kai Bird [Bird, Kai]

January 22, 1979, was a cold and gray day in Beirut. It was the birthday of Salameh’s young niece, and Ali Hassan had promised he would stop by his mother’s ...
( Category: Political June 6,2014 )
Among Wolves: Gordon Haber's Insights into Alaska's Most Misunderstood Animal by Haber Gordon & Holleman Marybeth
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Haber, Gordon & Holleman, Marybeth [Haber, Gordon]

Not only do many other animals pass near wolf homesites, but virtually all of the homesites and dens are also used by many other animals, including foxes, ground squirrels, porcupines, ...
( Category: State & Local June 6,2014 )
Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation From Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson by Jennifer Hecht
epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Jennifer Hecht [Hecht, Jennifer]

THE HISTORICAL PROBLEM CALLED RABELAIS A center of fresh doubt in these years was at the court of Margaret of Navarre. She lived from 1492 to 1549, right through the ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State May 29,2014 )
The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution: A Fully Annotated Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and Amendments,and Selections From the Federalist Papers by Richard Beeman
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Richard Beeman [Beeman, Richard]

FEDERALIST NO. 78: ALEXANDER HAMILTON, MAY 28, 1788 “Federalist No. 78” is Alexander Hamilton’s most significant contribution to The Federalist Papers. The principle topic of the essay is the importance ...
( Category: Democracy May 29,2014 )
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-08-08 | Author:Charles C. Mann [Mann, Charles C.]

The Ouachita mounds as they may have appeared at their creation, 5,400 years ago. Because modern-day hunter-gatherers in Africa live in egalitarian bands that constantly move from place to place, ...
( Category: United States May 29,2014 )
No Bone Unturned: Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America's Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters by Jeff Benedict
mobi, pdf |eng | 2003-04-01 | Author:Jeff Benedict [Benedict, Jeff]

21 ABOUT-FACE Friday, October 18 National Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C. “This is bullshit!” Dennis Stanford said to himself, banging down the receiver. Lauryn Grant, a lawyer in the ...
( Category: State & Local May 29,2014 )
The Twilight Warriors: The Deadliest Naval Battle of World War II and the Men Who Fought It by Robert Gandt
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Robert Gandt [Gandt, Robert]

Something caught Mitsuru Yoshida’s eye as he stood on the bridge. Something red. One of Yamato’s screening destroyers on the port outer edge of the formation, Hamakaze, had just showed ...
( Category: United States May 29,2014 )
1001 People Who Made America by Alan Axelrod
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Alan Axelrod [Axelrod, Alan]

Lafayette, Marquis de (1757–1834) Eager to win glory as a soldier in a noble cause, Lafayette left his native France and arrived in Philadelphia in July 1777 to fight for ...
( Category: Reference May 29,2014 )
The Mental Floss History of the United States: The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America by Erik Sass & Will Pearson & Mangesh Hattikudur
epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Erik Sass & Will Pearson & Mangesh Hattikudur [Sass, Erik & Pearson, Will & Hattikudur, Mangesh]

THE QUOTABLE FLEXNER Its anatomy room, containing a single cadaver, is indescribably foul … Nothing more disgraceful calling itself a medical school can be found anywhere. –on the soon-to-be-defunct Georgia ...
( Category: United States May 29,2014 )
The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture by Joshua Kendall
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Joshua Kendall [Kendall, Joshua]

The twelfth child of William and Mary Greenleaf, James Greenleaf (1765-1843) was a year older than Webster’s wife, Rebecca. Without the financial assistance of the well-heeled “brother James,” Webster could ...
( Category: Authors May 29,2014 )
Extraordinary Patriots of the United States of American: Colonial Times to Pre-Civil War by Nancy Robinson Masters
mobi |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Nancy Robinson Masters

Henry Knox The “Ox” of the Revolutionary War 1750-1806 He is too valuable to me. —General George Washington Henry Knox looked up from the manual of military strategy he was ...
( Category: Colonial Period May 28,2014 )

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