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Showdown With Evil: Our Struggle against Tyranny and Terror by Jamie Glazov
epub |eng | 2010-10-29 | Author:Jamie Glazov [Glazov, Jamie]

18. Banquo’s Ghosts - Rich Lowry Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review, a nationally syndicated columnist, and a Fox News political analyst. His book, ...
( Category: Violence in Society March 5,2017 )
Powers and Prospects by Noam Chomsky
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-09-16 | Author:Noam Chomsky

‘Free Market Conservatism’ Following the same course, we can come to understand the concept of ‘free market conservatism’. Its real meaning is revealed by a closer look at the most ...
( Category: Radicalism February 28,2017 )
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-04-01 | Author:David Brion Davis [Davis, David Brion]

IT WAS ONLY IN 1993 that students of slave resistance and general readers interested in the Civil War learned of a hidden slave conspiracy that might have had a considerable ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 26,2017 )
The Oil Kings by Andrew Scott Cooper
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Andrew Scott Cooper [Cooper, Andrew Scott]

President Ford received Prime Minister Takeo Miki of Japan at the White House on August 6. Japan imported 73 percent of its oil from Iran and the Middle East. Miki ...
( Category: Middle Eastern February 26,2017 )
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism by Theda Skocpol & Vanessa Williamson
epub |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Theda Skocpol & Vanessa Williamson [Skocpol, Theda & Williamson, Vanessa]

THE CONSERVATIVE MEDIA HOST A TEA PARTY As President Obama and a Democratic Congress took office and started churning out legislation, most of the ultra-free-market advocacy and political action groups ...
( Category: Democracy February 26,2017 )
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Robert J. Gordon
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:Robert J. Gordon [Gordon, Robert J.]

Figure 11–9. U. S. Commerical Airline Passenger Fatalities Per 100 Billion Passenger-Miles, Seven Year Moving Average, 1940–2013. Sources: HSUS Df1120, Df1133, Df 1231, Df1236 before 1997, MIT Airline Data Project ...
( Category: Economic Conditions February 26,2017 )
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Fredrik Logevall

VI AT DIEN BIEN PHU ON JANUARY 25, EVERYONE IN THE ENTRENCHED camp waited with nervous anxiety. And waited. By nightfall, no attack had come. A Dakota circled above the ...
( Category: Asian February 25,2017 )
The Underground Railroad
azw3 |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Colson Whitehead

To explain why he and his wife kept Cora imprisoned in their attic, Martin had to go back a ways. As with everything in the south, it started with cotton. ...
( Category: African American Historical Fiction February 24,2017 )
Rio de Janeiro: A Food Biography (Big City Food Biographies) by Zoladz Marcia & Zoladz Marcia
epub |eng | 2016-09-01 | Author:Zoladz, Marcia & Zoladz, Marcia [Zoladz, Marcia]

Even More Immigrants In order to explain the arrival of immigrants from countries other than Portugal in Rio, it is necessary to understand how large groups of Europeans moved to ...
( Category: History February 24,2017 )
White House Years by Henry Kissinger
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Henry Kissinger [Unknown]

“Polo II” WHEN I review the exchanges preceding what we code-named “Polo II,” it is difficult to imagine how we had ever made it to Peking three months earlier with ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 24,2017 )
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
epub |eng | | Author:Timothy B. Tyson

15 EVERY LAST ANGLO-SAXON ONE OF YOU Across the courtroom Carolyn Bryant watched in awe as Mamie Bradley testified. “I had all these things running through my mind,” she recalled. ...
( Category: History & Theory February 24,2017 )
The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Foote Shelby
epub |eng | 1963-01-01 | Author:Foote, Shelby [Foote, Shelby]

Neither was their presence in the orchard covered by any instructions from their own commander. In fact, at the time Hood’s men first spotted them, Meade did not even know ...
( Category: American Civil War December 10,2016 )
Prisoners of Hope by Randall B. Woods
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Randall B. Woods

IN THE LATE FALL OF 1965, THE “FABULOUS EIGHTY-NINTH,” AS THE press labeled the sitting session of Congress, adjourned. Its record of achievement was unparalleled: Medicare; Medicaid; voting rights; federal ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 1,2016 )
Rogue Justice by Karen J. Greenberg
epub |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Karen J. Greenberg

The most unusual thing about the case argued in federal court in Providence, Rhode Island, on June 19, 2008, was not that the court convening it, the FISA Court of ...
( Category: United States November 28,2016 )
Truevine by Beth Macy
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Beth Macy

11 Adultery’s Siamese Twin The money—first from the change cup on the porch, then from the Ringling settlement and the funds being sent home—changed everything at Ten-and-a-Half Street. The food ...
( Category: United States November 13,2016 )

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