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The Myth of the American Dream by D. L. Mayfield
epub |eng | 2020-04-02 | Author:D. L. Mayfield

16 THE SHIP OF THE DOOMED On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples. . . . On this mountain he will ...
( Category: Ideologies & Doctrines July 5,2020 )
The Cabinet by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
epub |eng | | Author:Lindsay M. Chervinsky

* * * In 1793, Washington’s cabinet established important executive and diplomatic precedents, but that year also witnessed the crystallization of the first two-party political system, helmed by Hamilton on ...
( Category: History & Theory July 5,2020 )
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson
epub |eng | 2016-08-20 | Author:Thomas Jefferson [Jefferson, Thomas]

They may produce a temporary confusion, and even a temporary civil war, supported, as they will be, by the money of England; but they cannot have success ultimately. The King, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 5,2020 )
Katharine and R. J. Reynolds by Michele Gillespie
epub |eng | 2012-09-30 | Author:Michele Gillespie

It was in this changing climate that R.J.R. introduced his Camel cigarette in 1913, one of four new brands he was test-marketing at a time when cigarette smokers were still ...
( Category: Business July 5,2020 )
13 Bankers by Simon Johnson
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Simon Johnson [Johnson, Simon; Kwak, James]

The story of the financial crisis of 2007–2009 has been told many times.10 Policymakers, economists, and commentators have pointed to many causes and contributing factors, ranging from “oversaving” in China ...
( Category: Banks & Banking July 5,2020 )
Bourgeois Radicals by Carol Anderson
epub |eng | 2014-10-29 | Author:Carol Anderson [Anderson]

2 Christopher Seton-Watson, “Italy’s Imperial Hangover,” Journal of Contemporary History, 15, no. 1, (January 1980), 169. 3 Scott L. Bills, The Libyan Arena: The United States, Britain, and the Council ...
( Category: Non-Governmental Organizations July 5,2020 )
Long Beach's Los Cerritos by Geraldine Knatz
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Geraldine Knatz

PICNIC DAY. Evelyn Moulton, a 1908 graduate of the original “South” Los Cerritos School, became a teacher at Los Cerritos School in 1917–1918 and served as principal in 1919 and ...
( Category: Travel July 5,2020 )
THE FUTURE IN AMERICA (Illustrated) by H. G. Wells
epub |eng | 2017-11-13 | Author:H. G. Wells [Wells, H. G.]

IX. — THE IMMIGRANT Table of Contents § I My picture of America assumes now a certain definite form. I have tried to convey the effect of a great and ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism July 5,2020 )
Active Measures by Thomas Rid
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Rid

In May 1983 at a peace rally in Williamsburg, Virginia, during a high-profile summit meeting of industrial nations, particularly shrewd and well-equipped protesters displayed a German-language banner in the background ...
( Category: Social Media July 5,2020 )
Stop Aging Now! by Jean Carper
epub |eng | 2019-01-04 | Author:Jean Carper

( Category: Other Diets July 5,2020 )
Titanic, A Very Peculiar History by Jim Pipe
epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Jim Pipe

• At 1.45 p.m. from the Amerika : ‘Passed two large icebergs.’ Action taken: As this was a private message overheard by the wireless operators, it wasn’t sent to the ...
( Category: Ship History July 4,2020 )
William Henry Harrison by Gail Collins
epub |eng | | Author:Gail Collins

6 The First Campaign Andrew Jackson’s presidency had been so strong that it had created two political parties—Jackson’s Democrats and the Whigs, whose unifying principle was simply opposition to Old ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 4,2020 )
Conservation by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

Today, just as Biblical accounts are now more fully recognised as metaphorical devices, Māori are more likely to present such stories as a way of thinking about the generative powers, ...
( Category: Energy Production & Extraction July 4,2020 )
Railtown by Ethan N. Elkind
epub |eng | | Author:Ethan N. Elkind

THE SUMITOMO TSUNAMI The Sumitomo controversy was the first sign that the recession and its social impact were going to create political problems for transit leaders. The reaction from the ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development July 4,2020 )
Hamburger by Josh Ozersky
epub |eng | 2008-07-14 | Author:Josh Ozersky

FOUR Have It Your Way The postwar decades were the high summer of the hamburger, the years when burgers attained the summit of symbolism. The hamburger attained the status of ...
( Category: Meats July 4,2020 )

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