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epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Maggie Doherty [Doherty, Maggie]

CHAPTER 11 Mad for the Message ON FEBRUARY 19, 1963, just eight days after Plath’s death, Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique was published by Norton. In the book, Friedan argued ...
( Category: United States May 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-28 | Author:Lis Wiehl

Turchie was determined to develop a full understanding of all the elements of the investigation—including the all-important computerized database that held promise for advancing the agents’ work and potentially providing ...
( Category: Law Enforcement May 22,2020 )
mobi |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Richard J. Herrnstein

THE “EDGE” IN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION People may agree that they want affirmative action in higher education until they say more precisely what they mean by it. Then they may disagree. ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies May 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-05 | Author:Christopher W. Shaw [Shaw, Christopher W.]

“Cooperation and Not Conflict” The inclusion of agriculture and labor in New Deal policymaking imparted these groups with stature. “Labor has improved its status tremendously,” Perkins observed. This new standing ...
( Category: Economic Policy May 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-28 | Author:Jia Lynn Yang

JUDD AND TRUMAN knew each other well. In 1943, when Judd was still a freshman congressman and Truman vice president, the two men had gone on the road together for ...
( Category: Legislative Branch May 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-14 | Author:Diane Lapis [Lapis, Diane]

Thin Ice Cocktail 2 ounces dry gin ½ ounce Bénédictine 1 sugar cube 2–3 dashes Absinthe 1–2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters Dry champagne Lemon twist, for garnish Mix dry gin and ...
( Category: Postcards May 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-04 | Author:Nancy A. Hewitt & Lawson F. Steven [Hewitt, Nancy A.]

Managing the Wartime Economy To mobilize for war, President Roosevelt increased federal spending to unprecedented levels. Federal government employment during the war expanded to an all-time high of 3.8 million ...
( Category: United States May 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-13 | Author:STEVE COLGATE

Figure 6-3. Shooting head to the wind before the start can help determine the favored end. Here the buoy end is favored. Most boats have a thwart or a traveler ...
( Category: Sailing May 14,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:James West Davidson

24 THE NEXT BIG THING ONE OF THE CONQUISTADORS WHO explored for treasure in Spanish America liked to display a motto below his portrait. It read, “By compasses and the ...
( Category: Archaeology May 13,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Tom Clavin

ACT IV THE GUNFIGHT Oriental Saloon (COURTESY OF ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY) Some few of us pioneers are entitled to credit for what we have done. We have been the fore-runners ...
( Category: United States May 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Tim McGrath [McGrath, Tim]

* * * · · · MONROE RETURNED TO Washington from his tour on September 17, 1817, the thirtieth anniversary of the Constitution’s ratification. By this time the Republicans routinely ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:J. Chester Johnson

6 AFTER FREEDOM SUMMER During the summer of 1964, known among civil rights workers as Freedom Summer, I sat in Quincy House along the Charles River at Harvard University. I ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies May 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brad Meltzer

51 Baltimore, Maryland February 15, 1861 The stage is set. Throughout his career, Pinkerton has gone undercover dozens of times. He’s played many roles, worn many different disguises, and infiltrated ...
( Category: American Civil War May 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Bill Buford [Buford, Bill]

* * * — But I didn’t. I was late. I woke up thinking, Whatever you do, arrive on time—and then didn’t. Viannay was right: I did have a problem ...
( Category: French May 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-04 | Author:Bernard Whalen [WHALEN, BERNARD J. / MESSING, PHILIP / MLADINICH, ROBERT]

The murder scene in apartment 3C at 57 East 88th Street on Manhattan’s fashionable Upper East Side. THE CAREER GIRL MURDERS Year 1963 Janice Wylie Emily Hoffert In the early ...
( Category: Cities May 5,2020 )