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Room 1219: Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed Hollywood by Greg Merritt
epub |eng | 2013-09-01 | Author:Greg Merritt [Merritt, Greg]

After Arbuckle’s testimony and over the prosecution’s objection, the deposition of Dr. Maurice Rosenberg was read into the record. (He had been interviewed by defense attorney Brennan in Chicago.) Rosenberg ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Jefferson and Hamilton by John Ferling
epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:John Ferling

Chapter 10 “Devoted to the paper and stockjobbing interest” Unbridled Partisan Warfare It is not likely that Jefferson thought the bank would be the final peg in Hamilton’s program. Washington, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House by Peter Baker
epub |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Peter Baker [Baker, Peter]

BUSH HAD HAD IT with the conservatives who were beating up Harriet Miers. The more they attacked her, the more he dug in. “I do not care about them at ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Theodore Roosevelt by Louis Auchincloss
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Louis Auchincloss [Auchincloss, Louis]

Ten France had bought off British and Italian interests in Morocco by promising them a free hand in Tripoli and Egypt, and the French Convention with Britain of April 1904 ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Ecstatic Nation by Brenda Wineapple
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Brenda Wineapple

THOUGH HORATIO ALGER, JR., would not invent Ragged Dick until 1867, the tale of rags to riches was already a mainstay of American folklore, at least in the North. Southern ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel by Sherill Tippins
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Sherill Tippins [Tippins, Sherill]

8 Naked Lunch Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine. —PATTI SMITH, “Oath” TO THE BELEAGUERED COUPLE who unlocked its door, the tiny chamber assigned to them wasn’t just ...
( Category: Houses & Hotels March 25,2014 )
The Book of the Courtesans by Susan Griffin
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-02-05 | Author:Susan Griffin

MARION DAVIES Chapter Five Gaiety (or Joie de Vivre) Kiss the joy as it flies. —WILLIAM BLAKE THE CAPACITY TO take pleasure in life is no less a virtue than ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
Ruby Ridge
epub |eng | 2002-03-24 | Author:Jess Walter [Walter, Jess]

FIFTEEN KAREN DEGAN GRIPPED TIGHTLY the hands of her two sons and walked into the slate-roofed Sacred Heart Church, where nineteen years earlier she’d married a strong, quiet football player. ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the J.F.K. Assassination by Summers Anthony
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Summers, Anthony [Summers, Anthony]

There is something else, something seen as revelatory by the researchers who have done the most extensive analysis of relevant Agency files.25 It is a CIA response to Station Chief ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Intel Wars by Matthew M. Aid
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew M. Aid

CHAPTER 6 Men of Zeal Homeland Security and Domestic Terrorism The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. —U.S. SUPREME COURT ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Lucky Me: My Life With--and Without--My Mom, Shirley MacLaine by Parker Sachi
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-07 | Author:Parker, Sachi [Parker, Sachi]

Chapter 9 La Vie Bohème After four years at Qantas, it was time for a change. I can cite no particular deciding factor in this—not the apparition of Luke, nor ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
To Move the World by Jeffrey D. Sachs
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Jeffrey D. Sachs [Sachs, Jeffrey D.]

Kennedy then turned to the last point. “Fourth and finally, this treaty can limit the nuclear arms race in ways which, on balance, will strengthen our Nation’s security far more ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Conquering Gotham by Jill Jonnes
epub |eng, eng | 2007-03-24 | Author:Jill Jonnes

EIGHTEEN “DISTURBED ABOUT NORTH RIVER TUNNELS” On Monday April 2, 1906, an anguished Samuel Rea sat at a wooden desk in his spacious Bryn Mawr home and considered how best ...
( Category: History of Railroads March 25,2014 )
Drinking Water by James Salzman
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:James Salzman [SALZMAN, JAMES]

This incredible—truly incredible—tale invented at Winchcombe Abbey was a likely result of such boosterism, as pilgrimage sites competed with one another to get a cut from the revenue stream. One ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
John Quincy Adams by Harlow Unger
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Harlow Unger [Unger, Harlow]

Two weeks later, having put his papers in order and received word of his promotion to the London embassy, John Quincy set out for Paris to await Louisa and his ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )

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