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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:James Bradley

* * * IN 1873, EMULATING COMMODORE PERRY’S mission, Japanese diplomats sailed west in an American-made warship across the Yellow Sea to open uncivilized Korea to Western ways. They brought ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History by Antonio Mendez & Matt Baglio
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:Antonio Mendez & Matt Baglio

9 HOLLYWOOD I met Jerome Calloway for the first time during the early 1970s, on the set of a spy-themed TV show. The show was popular in the late 1960s ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
The Great Bridge by David McCullough
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-31 | Author:David McCullough

There are times when standing alone on this spot, one feels as completely isolated as if in a dungeon. Some three years ago I had an experience of this kind ...
( Category: Civil & Environmental March 25,2014 )
The Anti-Slavery Crusade (Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition) by Jesse Macy
mobi, epub | | 2008-10-02 | Author:Jesse Macy

CHAPTER IX. BOOKS AS ANTI-SLAVERY WEAPONS Whittier offered up "thanks for the fugitive slave law; for it gave occasion for 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.'" Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe had been mistress ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Democracy in America by Alexis Tocqueville
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Alexis Tocqueville

CHAPTER 2 THE PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF BELIEFS AMONG DEMOCRATIC NATIONS Depending on the times, beliefs of a dogmatic character are more or less common. They arise in different ways and ...
( Category: Democracy March 25,2014 )
Bad Land by Jonathan Raban
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Raban

The Wollastons were bent on self-sufficiency, on making the homestead pay. Many, if not most, of their neighbors were subsidizing their farms by taking outside jobs. They taught school, or ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel Boorstin
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-10-17 | Author:Daniel Boorstin

PART SIX Mass-Producing the Moment “O mamma, come into the drawing-room; there is a man in there playing the piano with his hands!” Quoted by John Philip Sousa in “The ...
( Category: Democracy March 25,2014 )
This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-08 | Author:Drew Gilpin Faust

“It was my Mother’s customs,” “My gentle Mother dear” “I was my Mother’s darling,” for, I loved my lager beer. “Kiss me good-night, Mother,” and bring me a Bourbon plain— ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Thomas Powers

During his first weeks at the Red Cloud Agency it was evident that Crazy Horse had determined on peace. He had one overriding goal: to secure an agency in the ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-12-24 | Author:Amanda Foreman

Ill.41 General Longstreet’s corps crossing the Blue Ridge from the Shenandoah to the Rappahannock, by Frank Vizetelly. Jeb Stuart succeeded in driving the Federals away from the passes, but he ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Spycraft by Melton; Robert Wallace; Schlesinger
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-10 | Author:Melton; Robert Wallace; Schlesinger

The CIA’s other solution to the Castro problem drew TSD into the ultimately objectionable policy of sanctioned assassination. Both TSD’s chemistry branch and its explosive devices branch had the expertise ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions (2003) by Clyde Prestowitz
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-11-10 | Author:Clyde Prestowitz

THE ARMED ECONOMY The third important aspect of American militarism is economic. Just as it has sought to keep key countries as quasi-client states, so the United States has sought ...
( Category: Ideologies & Doctrines March 25,2014 )
Out of Order by Sandra Day O'Connor
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

Swearing-in ceremony for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia, which took place in the East Room of the White House on September 26, 1986. (Photograph Credit 8.3) ...
( Category: Rules & Procedures March 25,2014 )
5000 Year Leap by Skousen W. Cleon
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-28 | Author:Skousen, W. Cleon [Skousen, W. Cleon]

Not only will the number of those who can take an interest in the productions of the mind be enlarged, but the taste for intellectual enjoyment will descend, step by ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 25,2014 )
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Howard Zinn

Chapter 15 Self-Help in Hard Times The war was hardly over, it was February 1919, the IWW leadership was in jail, but the IWW idea of the general strike became ...
( Category: Democracy March 25,2014 )

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