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Alistair Cooke's America by Alistair Cooke
epub |eng | 2002-02-22 | Author:Alistair Cooke

As the pioneers flooded into the Western lands, and old territories turned into new states, not only machines followed them but independent farmers who were soundly against slavery. With them ...
( Category: Essays February 23,2020 )
THE ENVY OF The World by Ellis Cose
epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Ellis Cose

When I was working on The Rage of a Privileged Class, I interviewed scores of college students and graduates, many from exclusive schools, who talked bitterly of the condescension rampant ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 23,2020 )
Eisenhower: Volume II by Stephen E. Ambrose
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The High Cost of Defense, Nuclear Testing, Civil Rights January–July 1957 ON EVERY possible occasion, Eisenhower told the press, the politicians, and the public that the only way ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 23,2020 )
After the Crash by Sharyn O'Halloran
epub |eng | 2019-08-09 | Author:Sharyn O'Halloran

Figure 13.13 Histogram of Relative Reduction in EEPE over All Netting Sets. (0 out of 1,378 have more than 150% increase and are not shown, 0 of those have zero ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 23,2020 )
A History of Long Island, Vol. 3 by Peter Ross
epub |eng | 2017-09-20 | Author:Peter Ross [Unbekannt]

CHAPTER LVI. OYSTER BAY. The township of Oyster Bay, which is the largest in Nassau County, as it was the largest in the old County of Queens, extends across the ...
( Category: United States February 23,2020 )
Amiable Scoundrel by Paul Kahan
epub |eng | 2016-05-10 | Author:Paul Kahan [Kahan, Paul]

Two things are immediately apparent about Bryant’s criticism of Cameron: first, they are entirely based on rumor and, second, those rumors reflect complaints by individuals angered by the fact that ...
( Category: United States February 23,2020 )
Emperor Constantine by Pohlsander Hans A.; Pohlsander Hans A.;
epub |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Pohlsander, Hans A.; Pohlsander, Hans A.; [Hans A. Pohlsander]

8 THE CRISIS IN THE IMPERIAL FAMILY The years 324 and 325 saw Constantine at the pinnacle of success. His victories over Licinius had made him the sole ruler of ...
( Category: Rome February 23,2020 )
A SPECK ON THE SEA by William Longyard
epub |eng | 2004-07-26 | Author:William Longyard

Schultz’s Sea Fever was modified many times on its journey from the Andes down the Amazon, and up the Caribbean to Miami. Its sails were made from canvas awning material. ...
( Category: Sailing February 22,2020 )
BOOMER NATION by STEVE GILLON
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:STEVE GILLON

The conflicts within the VVA underscored the confused legacy of the Vietnam War. Even among those who had fought, there were wide variations in experience. Those who fought early in ...
( Category: United States February 22,2020 )
The Last Negroes at Harvard by Kent Garrett
epub |eng | | Author:Kent Garrett

Lance Morrow, 1959 Lance Morrow remembered the drinking too. “We were drinking buddies,” he wrote me. “We had a hell of a good time together, were reckless and heedless.” They ...
( Category: United States February 22,2020 )
Passion and Principle by Sally Denton
epub |eng | 2009-02-21 | Author:Sally Denton

Many later historians dismissed the book as utter hyperbole, but Roosevelt, in his biography of Benton, contended that his life and passions could not be overstated. "Many of his expressions, ...
( Category: United States February 22,2020 )
Wounded Titans by Max Lerner
epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:Max Lerner

The brief months as vice president were a relief from Truman’s close to a decade of hard work, as senator, but also an anticlimax. Truman managed a large correspondence and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 22,2020 )
Come From Away--Welcome to the Rock by Irene Sankoff
epub |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:Irene Sankoff

Toni-Leslie James’s costume renderings—very accurate!—of Beverley, Claude, and Hannah. Finding and selecting the right sorts of chairs and tables, however, required an artist’s touch. “We started at La Jolla, so ...
( Category: Broadway & Musicals February 22,2020 )
New Deal or Raw Deal? by Burton W. Folsom Jr
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Burton W. Folsom, Jr.

12 PATRONAGE TRANSFORMED: THE ELECTIONS OF 1934 AND 1936 Roosevelt seemingly dazzled the nation with his election victories. In his first midterm election, for example, he led his party to ...
( Category: Political February 22,2020 )
History of Utah by Hubert Bancroft
epub |eng | | Author:Hubert Bancroft

MISSIONS AND IMMIGRATIN 1830 – 1883 Of the twenty-five or thirty thousand latter-day saints gathered in the valley of the Great Salt Lake at the close of the year 1852, ...
( Category: Regional U.S February 22,2020 )

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