mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Anne Applebaum

We consumed the half pint of barley coffee we received for breakfast, the soup and vegetable we got for lunch and the vegetable served us as dinner standing on the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Thomas Barfield

Musahiban Policies: Stability über Alles For the Musahibans nothing was more important than preserving the internal stability of Afghanistan, which they defined as maintaining their own rule over the country. ...

mobi, epub |ru | 2011-12-12 | Author:Aloys Winterling

RESHAPING THE EMPEROR’S ROLE The conspiracy of Agrippina, Livilla, and Lepidus had presented Caligula with the same threat in extreme form that had always been present under the rule of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Gordon S. Wood

V Republicanism Amilitary victory over Great Britain may have been essential for the success of the Revolution, but for Americans it was scarcely the whole of the Revolution. Although the ...

mobi |eng | 2003-10-30 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

THE MANNER in which the Farewell Address was actually composed, as it turned out, served as a nearly perfect illustration of its central message—the need to subordinate narrow interests to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-13 | Author:Klein, Edward [Klein, Edward]

Eventually, Oprah got a green light for her interview, and on February 17, 2009, she and Gayle climbed into Oprah’s custom-built, $42 million Bombardier Global Express XRS and jetted off ...

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, ...

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Hedges, Chris [Hedges, Chris]

Party to Murder DECEMBER 29, 2008 Can anyone following the Israeli air attacks on Gaza—the buildings blown to rubble, the children killed on their way to school, the long rows ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1966-08-15 | Author:Ayn Rand

18. THE OBLITERATION OF CAPITALISM by Ayn Rand In my article “ ‘Extremism,’ or The Art of Smearing,” I discussed the subject of “anti-concepts”—i.e., artificial, unnecessary, undefined and (rationally) unusable ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-23 | Author:Steve Levine

The development of a new foreign policy in Washington sometimes proceeds in a circular fashion. Sheila Heslin got a painful reminder of that in March after replacing Rosemarie Forsythe at ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1900-12-01 | Author:Thomas Sowell

Risk and Time To take an extreme example of how risk can vary over time, while a dollar invested in bonds in 1801 would be worth nearly a thousand dollars ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Candice Millard

PART FOUR TORTURED FOR THE REPUBLIC • CHAPTER 16 • NEITHER DEATH NOR LIFE I love to believe that no heroic sacrifice is ever lost, that the characters of men ...

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 ...

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 ...