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America's Sherlock Holmes by William R. Hunt
epub |eng | 2019-01-01 | Author:William R. Hunt [Hunt, William R.]

Chapter Nine Agents Provocateurs Burns now began to picture himself as a shield of capital. Edward Levinson “William J. Burns had proved himself to the men he called sons of ...
( Category: United States March 5,2020 )
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York by Goodman Matthew
epub |eng | 2010-05-17 | Author:Goodman, Matthew [Goodman, Matthew]

readers, who considered it well worth a penny to find out what Bennett would say that morning. Once he tried his hand at satire, producing an item he called “A ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 5,2020 )
F IN HISTORY by Reachard Beason
epub |eng | | Author:Reachard Beason

Who was Anne of Cleves? Why was George IV called the ‘first gentleman of England’? What was the Crystal Palace? Why was the Assembly of the Notables formed? #xa0; Name ...
( Category: Music March 5,2020 )
Mr. Speaker! by James Grant
epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:James Grant

Chapter 15 Great Plains Land Bubble REED WAS WORRYING about the 1888 elections even before he was officially in them. News that the hometown Republicans had selected him as their ...
( Category: Legislative Branch March 5,2020 )
The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson by Jefferson Thomas;
epub |eng | 2016-03-04 | Author:Jefferson, Thomas;

Mr. Adams accordingly executed 1000 bonds, for 1000 florins each, and deposited them in the hands of our bankers, with instructions, however, not to issue them until Congress should ratify ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 5,2020 )
Angry Public Rhetorics: Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 911 by Celeste Condit
epub |eng | | Author:Celeste Condit

Chapter 6 Susan Sontag’s Angry “Howl” In the first few weeks after 9/11, American elected officials of both major political parties stood beside President Bush and supported his policy agenda ...
( Category: International & World Politics March 5,2020 )
Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers and the Case That Ignited McCarthyism by Lewis Hartshorn
epub |eng | 2013-07-07 | Author:Lewis Hartshorn

But by September the FBI and State Department security had still not obtained concrete evidence of Hiss’s disloyalty. Hoover had expected Byrnes to fire Hiss or at least force him ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 5,2020 )
General of the Army by Ed Cray
epub |eng | 1990-03-04 | Author:Ed Cray

CHAPTER XXV Losses The soldier who boarded the C-54 transport at the Cairo airport on Wednesday, December 8, 1943, revealed nothing of his feelings. No word, no facial expression suggested ...
( Category: World War II March 5,2020 )
Eyewitness To Power by David Gergen
epub |eng | 2001-02-21 | Author:David Gergen

7 Secrets of the Great Communicator THE MOST MEMORABLE PRESIDENTS of the twentieth century have been excellent communicators. Teddy Roosevelt invented the bully pulpit to drive the country forward. Woodrow ...
( Category: History & Theory March 5,2020 )
Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
epub |eng | 2020-01-17 | Author:Peter Zeihan

It’s a well-set table, and the Iranians’ sectarian plays have paid off handsomely: Iraq is one step from being a client state, even smuggling a trickle of Iranian oil past ...
( Category: International & World Politics March 5,2020 )
The Promise and the Dream by Margolick David
epub |eng | 2018-04-02 | Author:Margolick, David

As catastrophic as his brother’s death was for Kennedy, it liberated him still more. Because he’d experienced life at its most random and cruel and irrational, because he feared he ...
( Category: United States March 5,2020 )
George 0777 by Henry George
mobi |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Henry George

In every direction, the direct tendency of advancing civilization is to increase the power of human labor to satisfy human desires—to extirpate poverty, and to banish want and the fear ...
( Category: Specific Topics in Politics & Government March 5,2020 )
Chappaquiddick Speaks by Pinney Bill
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Pinney, Bill [Pinney, Bill]

24 The Relay Every Chappaquiddick book has a timeline, and this one will, too. But in this chapter our timeline will concentrate on just one issue: the discrepancy between the ...
( Category: History & Theory March 5,2020 )
The Power Worshippers by Katherine Stewart
epub |eng | | Author:Katherine Stewart

CHAPTER 8 Converting the Flock to Data By his own account, Bill Dallas grew up in an unhappy household.1 His mother had been sexually abused by her father. She had ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 4,2020 )
USS Alabama by Kent Whitaker
epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Kent Whitaker

Daily life aboard Alabama took a turn on December 18, 1944, when she, along with several other ships, rode out a typhoon. Alabama listed 30 degrees on several occasions. Her ...
( Category: Marine Engineering March 4,2020 )

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