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How to Think About the Great Ideas by Mortimer J. Adler
epub |eng | 2010-06-07 | Author:Mortimer J. Adler

BAD ART IS STILL ART Lloyd Luckman: Well, Dr. Adler, right there— Mortimer Adler: Yes, Lloyd? Lloyd Luckman: You’ve been using this phrase “good art” and “bad art” quite a ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2014 )
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-12-31 | Author:Thomas Cahill [Cahill, Thomas]

V A Solid World of Light Holy Ireland Patrick devoted the last thirty years of his life—from, roughly, his late forties to his late seventies—to his warrior children, that they ...
( Category: Greece March 26,2014 )
New York Burning by Jill Lepore
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Jill Lepore [Lepore, Jill]

“WHAT NEWS?” Jack asked Ben, hauling his keg to the tea-water pump. “What News?” he asked Cato on “the Night that Hilton’s House burnt . . . for he had ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 26,2014 )
Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
epub, mobi |eng | 1988-06-06 | Author:James M. McPherson [McPherson, James M.]

15 Billy Yank's Chickahominy Blues I In May 1862, prospects for the Confederacy's survival seemed bleak. Most of the Mississippi Valley had fallen to the enemy. In Virginia, McClellan's army ...
( Category: Civil War March 26,2014 )
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Gordon S. Wood [Wood, Gordon S.]

When someone as aristocratic as William Byrd could write of the natural equality of all men, even those of different nations and races, and conclude that “the principal difference between ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
The Whites of Their Eyes by Jill Lepore
epub |eng | 2010-09-20 | Author:Jill Lepore [Lepore, Jill]

At the Green Dragon Tavern, I asked Austin Hess whether he was worried Sarah Palin was hijacking the Tea Party. He shrugged. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2014 )
The Dark Side by Jane Mayer
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-25 | Author:Jane Mayer [Mayer, Jane]

At this point, a remarkable internal rebellion broke out on the island. It was led not by political opponents of the Bush Administration, nor by human rights activists, but rather ...
( Category: African March 26,2014 )
Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln
epub |eng | 1979-11-30 | Author:Abraham Lincoln [Lincoln, Abraham]

* * * End Project Gutenberg's Etext of Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address
( Category: Study & Teaching March 26,2014 )
The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Christopher Hitchens [Hitchens, Christopher]

It is, from Kissinger's own record and recollection, as well as from the record of the subsequent official inquiry, quite easy to demonstrate that he did have advance knowledge of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
Crucible of War by Fred Anderson
epub |eng | 2009-03-29 | Author:Fred Anderson

Plan of a turret at Fort Loudoun, 1759. Captain Paul Demeré enclosed these sketches of features of Fort Loudoun in a letter to William Henry Lyttelton of February 27, 1759. ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 26,2014 )
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Isabel Wilkerson [Wilkerson, Isabel]

LOS ANGELES, 1954 ROBERT JOSEPH PERSHING FOSTER ALICE BEGAN SETTING UP HOUSE in the walk-up apartment Robert had scrambled to secure for his family after the apartment he wanted mysteriously ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson & Isaac Monroe Cline
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-07-11 | Author:Erik Larson & Isaac Monroe Cline [Larson, Erik]

We have been absolutely unable to hear a word from Galveston since 4 P.M. yesterday. . . . G. L. Vaughan, Manager Western Union, Houston THE EAST SIDE Louisa Rollfing ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 26,2014 )
Flapper by Joshua Zeitz
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-02-06 | Author:Joshua Zeitz [Zeitz, Joshua]

17 WITHOUT IMAGINATION, NO WANTS IN LATE NOVEMBER 1928, with the winter holiday season in high gear, millions of American magazine readers opened the latest edition of The Saturday Evening ...
( Category: History March 26,2014 )
Failure Is Not an Option by Gene Kranz
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-04-11 | Author:Gene Kranz [Kranz, Gene]

I recognized a few of the Thompson committee members. Frank Borman, the Gemini astronaut, and Max Faget, the director of engineering, were from MSC, and John Williams was from the ...
( Category: Aeronautics & Astronautics March 26,2014 )
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-01-08 | Author:Drew Gilpin Faust [Faust, Drew Gilpin]

“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 26,2014 )

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