Politics & Government
mobi, epub, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Maddow, Rachel [Maddow, Rachel]

We are emphatically opposed to any offensive military action. We believe that the UN-sponsored embargo must be given every opportunity to work and that all multinational, non-military means of resolving ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-16 | Author:Ken Gormley

THE final weeks of January, after the Lewinsky story erupted in the media, were among the most fast-moving in American political history. On the same day that “Unabomber” Theodore J. ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Frederick Kempe

Ulbricht and Kurt Wismach Lock Horns OBERSPREE CABLE WORKS, EAST BERLIN THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1961 With less than forty-eight hours to go before launching his operation, Walter Ulbricht nevertheless kept ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1997-04-15 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose; Douglas Brinkley

The most important result of Carter’s growing hostility toward and fear of the Soviets was the demise of SALT II. Carter was unwilling to go more than halfway in meeting ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Rick Perlstein

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Polarization SIX OF THE ELEVEN TOP-RATED TV SHOWS IN 1969 WERE BOB HOPE SPECIALS. But Bob’s annual Christmas special from Vietnam took on a harder edge this ...
( Category: Elections March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Follett, Ken [Follett, Ken]

Ross Perot: until this moment, life had been good to him. Perot’s parents: he had his father’s love of jokes, his mother’s iron will. Bull Simons. ABOVE with Lucille. BELOW, ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-10-10 | Author:Tim Weiner

In retrospect, you see, I really do not believe that an intelligence organization in this government is able to deliver an honest analytical product without facing the risk of political ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:Okrent, Daniel [Okrent, Daniel]

Chapter 16 “Escaped on Payment of Money” I N AN ATTEMPT to memorize poetry,” Irving Fisher wrote in 1926, “Professor Vogt of the University of Christiania found that on days ...
( Category: Legislative Branch March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Timothy Egan

Boise City, Oklahoma, April 1936 The Ehrlichs tried grinding up thistle for cattle feed, but it did not seem to work as it did for the Lowerys; their stock herd ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Unger, David C. [Unger, David C.]

Reagan’s military buildup emphasized weapons that were designed to fight, deter, or impress a rival superpower. The Weinberger-Powell Doctrine reserved America’s own military forces for wars of national security necessity, ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:John Lewis Gaddis

III. IT MIGHT become necessary, the Doolittle Report suggested, for the American people to “be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.”26 But no administration from Eisenhower’s ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Timothy Egan

10. Blowup A WIND OUT OF the American West that tumbles in roller-coaster fashion is known as a Palouser, a Sahaptin Indian word that sounds poetic, named for the lilt ...
( Category: Fire Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-01 | Author:Roberta Brandes Gratz

URBAN RENEWAL INTERFERES Manufacturers, like any business, experience many ups and downs but survive if they can change with market demand. But undisturbed was not to be for Gratz Industries. ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-06-08 | Author:James Ellroy

BECAUSE THE NIGHT 331 almost taste the blood. And after a while, his nights were spent not listening, but cringing in anticipation of coming impacts. Lack of sleep drew Lloyd ...
( Category: Murder 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 )