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The Revolt Against the Masses by Siegel Fred
epub |eng | | Author:Siegel, Fred [Siegel, Fred]

When World War II ended in 1945, the New York intellectual Delmore Schwartz kept repeating, “It’s 1919 over again.” The philosopher William Barrett, a friend of his, explained Schwartz’s excitement: ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 22,2020 )
Conversations in Black by Ed Gordon
epub |eng | 2020-01-13 | Author:Ed Gordon

HOW DO WE HELP STRUGGLING BLACK MEN AND BOYS? CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: We got a lot of trauma and a lot of pain and hurt that we don’t deal with. ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 22,2020 )
Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life by Joseph E. Persico
epub |eng | 2008-04-28 | Author:Joseph E. Persico [Persico, Joseph E.]

Chapter 25 “CLOSE TO BEING A WIFE” THERE WAS NEVER A COMPLETE BREAK between Franklin and Lucy. Given distance and long separations, the signal might become faint at times, but ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 21,2020 )
Killing Bin Laden by Peter Panzeri
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Panzeri

Prince 52 would land first at the road intersection just north-east of the compound and insert four members of Chalk Two: Cairo and his handler, the interpreter and a SEAL ...
( Category: United States March 21,2020 )
The Liberal Hour by Robert Weisbrot
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Robert Weisbrot

When future historians write of this era, I believe they will note that ours was the generation that finally faced up to the accumulated problems of our American life. . ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 21,2020 )
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

Leading a Book Club So you want to lead a book club discussion or you want some questions to make you ponder the deeper meaning of this book. Congratulations. #xa0; ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 21,2020 )
The Seventies by Bruce J. Schulman
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Bruce J. Schulman

Cultural Feminism and the Reassertion of Difference “After years of trying to explain things to men and to change the outside world,” movement experiences at last “gave birth to sisterhood.” ...
( Category: Women in History March 21,2020 )
The Mad Sculptor by Harold Schechter
epub |eng | | Author:Harold Schechter [Schechter, Harold]

19 Prime Suspect For both the newsmen assigned to the case and the public at large, the announcement was a bolt from the blue. Early Monday morning, April 5, Acting ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 21,2020 )
Sea of Thunder by Evan Thomas
epub |eng | | Author:Evan Thomas

From his bunker at Combined Fleet headquarters in Tokyo, Admiral Toyoda had, not unreasonably, wanted to go on the offensive with what little airpower he had left. He had made ...
( Category: United States March 21,2020 )
Frontier Grit by Marianne Monson
epub |eng | 2016-06-24 | Author:Marianne Monson

The tug-of-war that Zitkala-Sa endured was uniquely born out of the times and culture in which she lived, and the intensity and pain of it echoes to this day. Certainly ...
( Category: Women March 21,2020 )
Reel Nature by Mitman Gregg
epub |eng | | Author:Mitman, Gregg.

Through Zoo Parade and spin-offs, including a nationally syndicated newspaper column, a Dell comic book series, and a product line of Marlin Perkins's Zoo Parade Tooby Toy Animals, Perkins and ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 21,2020 )
Best Lincoln stories, tersely told by James E. Gallaher
epub |eng | 2017-01-23 | Author:James E. Gallaher [Gallaher, James E.]

President Lincoln, the man who said and did so many kindly things, taught Seward how to write state papers. He was not only master of the situation in this country, ...
( Category: Historical March 21,2020 )
San Juan Hill 1898 by Angus Konstam
epub |eng | | Author:Angus Konstam

THE SPANISH DEFENDERS AT EL CANEY The Spanish garrison at El Caney was well ensconced in a network of trenches, rifle pits, barbed wire and blockhouses. Initial estimates that the ...
( Category: Engineering March 21,2020 )
Presidential Elections and Majority Rule by Edward B. Foley
epub |eng | 2019-03-20 | Author:Edward B. Foley

Instant Runoff Voting There are strong reasons why a state might prefer not to adopt a two-round system as its way to comply with the majority-rule requirement. First, there is ...
( Category: Elections March 21,2020 )
In Search of the Blues by Marybeth Hamilton
epub |eng | | Author:Marybeth Hamilton

five Been Here and Gone WHEN THEY LOOKED BACK TO THE BEGINNING, FREDERIC Ramsey, Charles Edward Smith, and William Russell remembered the rundown building on the corner of U Street ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 21,2020 )

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