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A Mayor's Life by David N. Dinkins
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:David N. Dinkins [Dinkins, David N.]

Photo Section My mother, Sally Dinkins, as a young woman. My father, Bill Dinkins Jr. (center), with Les Hayling. Trenton Central High School, 1944. I fought my way into the ...
( Category: United States March 24,2020 )
Young Thurgood by Larry S. Gibson
epub |eng | 2012-12-09 | Author:Larry S. Gibson

After reviewing Pearson's letter, Marshall drafted a letter on Murray's behalf to the University of Maryland's Board of Regents: On January 24, 1935, pursuant to and in accordance with the ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 24,2020 )
Pot Shards: Fragments of a Life Lived in CIA, the White House, and the Two Koreas by Donald P. Gregg
epub |eng | 2014-09-13 | Author:Donald P. Gregg [Gregg, Donald P.]

PART THREE: WHITE HOUSE YEARS 17 The White House Years with Reagan and Bush The transfer of presidential power from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan did not proceed in a ...
( Category: Political Science March 23,2020 )
Reflections by Barbara Bush
epub |eng | 2003-10-30 | Author:Barbara Bush

Some rather miscellaneous things happened the rest of November that amused me a little and made me a little sad. We went to a dinner one night and I sat ...
( Category: Women March 23,2020 )
Julian Assange - the Unauthorised Autobiography by Julian Assange
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-16 | Author:Julian Assange [Assange, Julian]

11 COLLATERAL MURDER After a brief time on the road, including a trip to Oslo to speak at a conference, we came back to Iceland in March 2010 and rented ...
( Category: Journalists March 23,2020 )
Janet and Jackie by Jan Pottker
epub |eng | 2019-01-08 | Author:Jan Pottker

( Category: Rich & Famous March 23,2020 )
Moshe Dayan by Mordechai Bar-On
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Mordechai Bar-On

10 The Six Day War ON MAY 15, 1967, the nineteenth anniversary of Israel’s independence, ominous news interrupted preparations for a festive parade in Jerusalem. In violation of the agreements ...
( Category: United States March 23,2020 )
Aethelflaed by Clarkson Tim;
epub |eng | | Author:Clarkson, Tim;

Bremesbyrig Under its entry for 910, the ‘A’ text of ASC gives an account of the Northumbrian invasion of Mercia and the battle of Tettenhall. An entry for the same ...
( Category: Scandinavian March 22,2020 )
Chomsky For Beginners by David Cogswell
epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:David Cogswell

Example: Gulf and Western pulled its funding from public TV station WNET in 1985 when it ran a documentary called “Hungry For Profit,” which criticized the activities of multinational corporations ...
( Category: History & Theory March 22,2020 )
We are Lincoln Men by David Herbert Donald
epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:David Herbert Donald

“B EYOND THE PALE OF HUMAN ENVY ” Lincoln and William H. Seward ON November 16, 1862, Virginia Woodbury Fox recorded a delicious piece of gossip in her diary. “Tish,” ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 22,2020 )
The AOC Way by Caroline Fredrickson
epub |eng | 2019-12-04 | Author:Caroline Fredrickson

Several of Crowley’s attorneys got assigned the work of administering the estates of those who had died without wills, making millions in the process. In fact, one of them, Gerard ...
( Category: Legislative Branch March 22,2020 )
How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace) by Harry Stein
epub |eng | | Author:Harry Stein

I picked up another life lesson during my time in Paris. As one might imagine, there are a fair number of interesting types to be encountered as a journalist in ...
( Category: Nationalism March 22,2020 )
Mayor for Life by Marion Barry Jr. & Omar Tyree
epub |eng | | Author:Marion Barry, Jr. & Omar Tyree

CHAPTER 11 D.C. DRUG WARS No one was prepared for the drug culture and the violence that took over the streets in the mid-1980s with crack cocaine; it simply took ...
( Category: Political March 22,2020 )
Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life by Joseph E. Persico
epub |eng | 2008-04-28 | Author:Joseph E. Persico [Persico, Joseph E.]

Chapter 25 “CLOSE TO BEING A WIFE” THERE WAS NEVER A COMPLETE BREAK between Franklin and Lucy. Given distance and long separations, the signal might become faint at times, but ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 21,2020 )
Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece by Ian Worthington
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-20 | Author:Ian Worthington

In my view, the reason why our land was not invaded by the enemy, besides their own poor judgment, was the courage of these men. This is clear especially from ...
( Category: Classical March 21,2020 )

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