mobi |eng | 2010-06-07 | Author:Mcgregor, Richard [Mcgregor, Richard]

Shanghai had been fêted in colonial times as the Pearl of the Orient, a mercantilist and mercenary trading hub where it was ‘hard to know where the government ended and ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Williams, Pat, Denney, Jim [Williams, Pat; Denney, Jim]

ROOSEVELT’S ROUGH RIDERS After several harsh years as a cattle rancher in the Dakotas, Roosevelt returned to New York City. In December 1886, he married his childhood friend Edith Kermit ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Barack Obama

CHAPTER TWELVE RAFIQ HAD DONE HIS best to spruce the place up. There was a new sign above the entrance, and the door had been propped open to let in ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:Laurence Leamer [Leamer, Laurence]

Jack knew that this would be a close election, but after listening to Vice President Richard Nixon give his acceptance speech on July 28 at the Stockyards Amphitheater in Chicago, ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Klein, Aaron & Elliott, Brenda J. [Klein, Aaron]

Chapter Nine Disarming America Since assuming office, President Obama and his administration have been minimizing the threat of Islamic fundamentalism while maintaining close associations with Islamic groups of questionable character. ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:Klein, Aaron & Elliott, Brenda [Klein, Aaron]

9 DHS ARMY—THE EMERGING POLICE STATE America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.1 —Abraham Lincoln ...

mobi |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:St. Clair, Jeffrey & Frank, Joshua [Frank, Joshua]

Obama the Deregulationist By ANDREW LEVINE “Ask Not What Capitalism Can Do For You; Ask What You Can Do For Capitalists.” That was the gist of Barack Obama’s “State of ...

mobi, epub |ru | 2011-08-11 | Author:Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Dealing with Good Deed Doers We commented earlier that “Successful leaders are not above repression, suppression, oppression, or even killing their rivals, real and imagined.” The truth of this statement ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Colin Powell

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO One Team, One Fight When General George Joulwan was our Southern Command commander some years ago, he ended all of his messages with the slogan “One Team, One ...

epub |eng | | Author:Thomas M. Menino

Repudiating his own commission (“I know more about the neighborhoods than Mr. St. Clair”), Flynn appointed Roache to another five-year term but, acknowledging his management shortcomings, named Bill Bratton, then ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-29 | Author:Sinead Fitzgibbon [Fitzgibbon, Sinead]

But amid the optimism and ceremony on that bitter cold January day in 1961, neither Kennedy nor the US people could have known just how soon these lofty ideals would ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-29 | Author:David B. McCoy [McCoy, David B.]

Washington leading troops during the Whiskey Rebellion Jefferson and his allies in the Southern States were rooted in the centuries-old agricultural culture. They saw the adoption of Hamilton’s three-pronged plan ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gardner, Lloyd C. [Gardner, Lloyd C.]

The Lead-in to Neptune’s Spear The compound at Abbottabad, a midsize city only an hour’s drive from Islamabad, was where Osama bin Laden had lived in secret for six years. ...

mobi | | | Author:David Remnick

mobi |eng | 2003-04-01 | Author:Dan Briody

EPILOGUE It may well be that writing a book about the Carlyle Group in 2003 is a premature exercise. The company is, after all, only 15 years old, and is ...