epub |eng | 2017-03-20 | Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco & Lauren Oyler

CHAPTER 5 Some Personal Shit You Should Probably Know Sometime in early August of that year, Plouffe was in my office and we were shooting the shit. Since I am ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Newton-Small, Jay [Newton-Small, Jay]

There’s a good deal of evidence that women are inherently risk-averse. Almost all—97 percent—of microlending is done to women in the developing world. Microcredit started in Bangladesh in 1983 and ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Archie Brown [Brown, Archie]

* Some revolutions, then, are led – as in Russia in November 1917 or Cuba in 1958–59 – and others are relatively leaderless, as in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011. ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Rupert Colley [Colley, Rupert]

Hitler the Man Following his release from prison in 1924 Hitler became increasingly aloof. Friendship, which had always been difficult, became impossible. Albert Speer wrote in his memoirs, ‘If Hitler ...

epub |eng | | Author:Joe Conason

* * * The first time Bill Clinton mentioned CGI in a public forum had been almost nine months earlier, when he took the World Economic Forum stage in Davos ...

epub |eng | | Author:Andrew M. Cuomo

People often ask me about the aftermath of my political and personal tribulations. The usual question is, “Did you change?” The better question, I tell them, is, “Did you grow?” ...

epub |eng | | Author:Polsby, Nelson W.,Wildavsky, Aaron,Schier, Steven E.,Hopkins, David A. & Aaron Wildavsky & Steven E. Schier & David A. Hopkins

CAMPAIGN PROFESSIONALS Presidential candidates have never lacked for willing accomplices in their quest for office. In the first partisan election battle in American history, the election of 1800, the crucial ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-08 | Author:David Laws [David Laws]

I was more successful in securing a very small saving in Education Department administration costs, but only after I managed to overcome spirited resistance. I had told my private secretary ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-20 | Author:Michelle Fields

2. Joe Biden In April 2014, violence erupted in Kiev between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian nationalists. At the center of the conflict was natural gas, with Ukraine accusing Russia of ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-14 | Author:Greg Jobin-Leeds

Others have echoed Saavedra. Many of the Washington, D.C.–based immigrant rights organizations thought they had a friend in the White House with Obama and were trying to play the inside ...

epub |eng | 2008-11-03 | Author:Max De Pree [De Pree, Max]

Second, just as moving up in the hierarchy does not confer competence, so organizational power does not guarantee wisdom. The discernment and judgment necessary to evaluate creative gifts and true ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Elaine Scarry

Chapter Three THE PLACE OF HABIT IN ACTS OF THINKING The rejection of procedures and constitutional guarantees, this book has so far suggested, comes from three sources: first, the belief ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Walter Isaacson

MR. MCGRAW Kevin Baker THEY CALLED HIM THE LITTLE NAPOLEON, AN ODDLY REDUNDANT nickname that was nonetheless apt. He led his teams with a passion that might—literally—leave your city razed ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-21 | Author:Jon Knokey

Since at least 1886, when he offered to fight against Mexico with “an entire regiment of cowboys,” Theodore had dreamed of military glory. He wanted to restore honor to the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jenny Hocking

10 THE THIRD MAN As he will be in the shades of history when this is read, his role should be known.1 —John Kerr EARLY ON TUESDAY morning, 11 November ...