United States
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:John Buntin
FOR DECADES, police departments had enjoyed wide latitude in how they went about apprehending criminal suspects. In 1914, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that evidence improperly or illegally obtained ...
( Category:
Criminology
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Kenneth Slawenski
—John Updike, 19741 In creating the intimacy between Holden Caulfield and readers of The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger employed the lesson taught to him by Whit Burnett in 1939 ...
( Category:
United States
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Erik Larson
BOLIVAR POINT The Lost Train ABOUT NOON ON Saturday, two trains converged on Galveston, one from the north, the other from the east. The first train belonged to the Galveston, ...
( Category:
Natural Disasters
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:Antonio Mendez & Matt Baglio
9 HOLLYWOOD I met Jerome Calloway for the first time during the early 1970s, on the set of a spy-themed TV show. The show was popular in the late 1960s ...
( Category:
History & Theory
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-02-26 | Author:Nick Taylor
13. THE AMERICAN GUIDES: IDAHO VERSUS WASHINGTON, D.C. The American Guides were slowly beginning to take shape. Even the dueling radicals came to understand that they had to show some ...
( Category:
United States
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-31 | Author:David McCullough
There are times when standing alone on this spot, one feels as completely isolated as if in a dungeon. Some three years ago I had an experience of this kind ...
( Category:
Civil & Environmental
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:King, Dean [King, Dean]
Portraits from the February 17, 1888, Louisville Courier-Journal, of (in order from the top) Randall McCoy and the defendants Wall Hatfield, L. D. McCoy, Selkirk McCoy; Doc, Sam, and Plyant ...
( Category:
United States
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Alexis Tocqueville
CHAPTER 2 THE PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF BELIEFS AMONG DEMOCRATIC NATIONS Depending on the times, beliefs of a dogmatic character are more or less common. They arise in different ways and ...
( Category:
Democracy
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Tony Horwitz
FROM HIS OLIVE SKIN and unusual surname, I’d guessed that the pharmacist Joe Gerache was of southern European extraction. But when I arrived at his home in suburban Vicksburg, I ...
( Category:
United States
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Linda Hunt
William and Mary Bryan’s home in Lincoln, Nebraska, decorated for a celebration during the Presidential election year of 1896. Courtesy Nebraska State Historical Society Photograph Collections, RG3198:22-6. Detail of this ...
( Category:
Women
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Hampton Sides
Narbona’s sons believed the old man was already on the path. “You’ve gone away from us now,” they chanted. “You’ve gone away by yourself.” Having slaughtered the horses and left ...
( Category:
United States
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick
The Whisper of Necessity BEFORE THEY LEFT Henderson Island, Chase loaded a flat stone and an armful of firewood into each boat. That first evening back on the water, as ...
( Category:
History
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:David O. Stewart
William Evarts, New York lawyer, who led the president’s defense inside and outside of the Senate. Schofield kept a level head. He needed to be sure that his elevation would ...
( Category:
United States
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-10-17 | Author:Daniel Boorstin
PART SIX Mass-Producing the Moment “O mamma, come into the drawing-room; there is a man in there playing the piano with his hands!” Quoted by John Philip Sousa in “The ...
( Category:
Democracy
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1986-02-15 | Author:Shelby Foote
Tactically speaking, Lee no doubt regretted Burnside’s departure. He would miss him, much as he missed McClellan, now in retirement, and John Pope and Joe Hooker, who had been shunted ...
( Category:
American Civil War
March 25,2014 )
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