Politics & Government
mobi |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Peter Firstbrook

By 1926, twenty-two thousand Africans in the protectorate were working in domestic service—about one in every seven gainfully employed men.22 In an attempt to monitor this sector, the colonial authorities ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-28 | Author:Walter R. Borneman

he following afternoon, May 13, 1846, a congressional delegation called on the president and presented him with the act declaring war against Mexico. Polk read it in the presence of ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Margaret Macmillan; Richard Holbrooke; Casey Hampton

1. Woodrow Wilson’s triumphal arrival in Paris before the start of the Peace Conference. His promise to establish a League of Nations to end war and to allow self-determination for ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:King Abdullah II; King Abdullah

As important as negotiating trade agreements, reforming our educational system, boosting our domestic industry, and reducing our energy dependence have been in putting Jordan on the path of sustainable economic ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Richard Brookhiser

CHAPTER SEVEN In Power When James Madison first arrived in Washington in the spring of 1801, it was nowhere. The federal government had moved to its latest site in the ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2007-05-15 | Author:Jean Edward Smith

NINETEEN ON THE BRINK What America does or fails to do in the next few years has a far greater bearing and influence on the history of the whole human ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Amity Shlaes

Eleven: The Siege and the Spruce Washington, D.C. WHAT JUMPED OUT WAS the number. It was $1,841,759,316.80, the total income tax revenues for the fiscal year that had ended in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Jon Meacham

CHAPTER 22 HE APPEARED TO FEEL AS A FATHER “UNCLE’S HEALTH IS as usual,” Emily wrote her mother in the spring of 1833. He was, she said, “often complaining.… He ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:A. Scott Berg

13 ISAIAH The Spirit of the Lord God is vpon me, because the Lord hath anointed me, to preach good tidings vnto the meek, hee hath sent me to binde ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-25 | Author:David McCullough

Truman, President in his own right, and Vice President Alben Barkley on the reviewing stand, Inauguration Day, January 20, 1949. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, by far the strongest, most ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Chris Matthews

Winning twenty-six seats in the U.S. House of Representatives more than doubled the postwar average for the opposition party in a first presidential midterm election. It was a big victory ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-24 | Author:Neil Barofsky

WE HAD SOME moderate hope that our relations with Treasury might improve after Kashkari stepped down in late April. He was gracious in his departure, stopping by our Gallatin conference ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-10-17 | Author:Anthony Everitt

XIV SHOWDOWN 32–31 B.C. * * * In early 32 B.C., it became obvious to everyone that Antony and Cleopatra had made an important and highly controversial decision. She was ...
( Category: Rome March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-02-05 | Author:George Tenet

Photographic Insert Being sworn in as Director of Central Intelligence by FBI Director Louis Freeh, July 11, 1997. Wife Stephanie Glakas-Tenet and son John Michael holding the bible. (Official FBI ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Richard Bonin

FIFTEEN Chalabi was on a roll. His march through Washington, however, was not without its share of difficulties and detours. For one, he was hurting financially. The attempt by Dewey ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )