Download or read book Watertown written by William F. Jannke, III and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how a village became a center for industry, shopping, and recreation while focusing on the people who lived the Watertown story. Readers will discover how riots broke out when politics took center stage just before the Civil War due to strong anti-Republican sentiments. The bond scandal only decades later is highlighted as the event that plunged Watertown into her darkest days.

Download or read book The Saga of the Family and Descendants of David Vestal Henley and Eleanor Lassiter of Randolph County North Carolina written by Eleanor Parker Bell and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Literary Circles of Washington written by Edith Nalle Schafer and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this walking tour of the city's literary history, Schafer explores Washington's culture, authors, bookstores, colleges, and literary meeting places.

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Download or read book Nights at the Dream Cafe written by John Mahoney and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dream Cafe, a popular neighborhood restaurant, is a welcoming haven for all kinds of people. The owner feels that the cae's exceptional nighttime goings-on should be preserved, so he asks Tom Gibbs, a young writer, to be its official scribe. Spanning the calendar year before the United States' involvement in World War II, the novel is comprised of a series of chronological stories--narrated by Tom Gibbs--each describing events at the cafe on a single night. John Mahoney, himself a young man during the time period evoked, brings vitality and veracity to the novel's mood and content. Anyone wishing to relive--or discover--the pre-WWII era will enjoy reading "Nights at the Dream Cafe."

Download or read book The Lost History of the Capitol written by Edward P. Moser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost History of the Capitol is an account of the many bizarre, tragic, and violent episodes that have occurred in and around the Capitol Building, from the founding of the federal capital city in 1790 up to contemporary times, including the events of January 6, 2021. In this 230-year span, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the neighborhoods nearby have witnessed dozens of high-profile scandals, trials, riots, bombings, and personal assaults, along with some inspiring events as well. This is a popular work about the US Capitol Building and its environs. Among the many incidents the book chronicles are a duel-to-the-death between congressmen, the terror bombings of the Senate, the first assassination attempt on a US president, moving tributes to war heroes and heroines, vicious brawls between senators and congressmen, protest marches both uplifting and illicit, public hangings near the Capitol steps, a gun battle in the House, bloody ethnic broils quelled by a famous father and son, and the citywide and Capitol Building riots of 2020–21.

Download or read book Washington City and Capital written by Federal Writers' Project and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Georgetown Ladies Social Club written by C. David Heymann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-11-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the political and social life of Georgetown cites the influence of such women as Katharine Graham, Lorraine Cooper, and Sally Quinn, while offering insight into Washington life in the late twentieth century.

Download or read book Untold Power written by Rebecca Boggs Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a leading historian on women’s suffrage and power While this nation has yet to elect its first woman president—and though history has downplayed her role—just over a century ago a woman became the nation’s first acting president. In fact, she was born in 1872, and her name was Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. She climbed her way out of Appalachian poverty and into the highest echelons of American power and in 1919 effectively acted as the first woman president of the U.S. (before women could even vote nationwide) when her husband, Woodrow Wilson, was incapacitated. Beautiful, brilliant, charismatic, catty, and calculating, she was a complicated figure whose personal quest for influence reshaped the position of First Lady into one of political prominence forever. And still nobody truly understands who she was. For the first time, we have a biography that takes an unflinching look at the woman whose ascent mirrors that of many powerful American women before and since, one full of the compromises and complicities women have undertaken throughout time in order to find security for themselves and make their mark on history. She was a shape-shifter who was obsessed with crafting her own reputation, at once deeply invested in exercising her own power while also opposing women’s suffrage. With narrative verve and fresh eyes, Untold Power is a richly overdue examination of one of American history’s most influential, complicated women as well as the surprising and often absurd realities of American politics.

Download or read book Can Such Things Be written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy these 24 eerie stories, told in Bierce’s witty, clear prose, filled with ghosts, apparitions, doppelgängers, grave robbers, death omens and other strange, inexplicable occurrences. The story of "The Damned Thing" has appeared in the tv show "Masters of Horror", while "Haïta the Shepherd" and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" have reverberated in the history of supernatural fiction from Robert W. Chambers’ "The King in Yellow" to HBO’s "True Detective" starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was an American writer, journalist, critic, poet, and Civil War veteran, best known for "The Devil's Dictionary" (1911). He dominated the horror genre as the preeminent innovator of supernatural storytelling in the period between the death of Edgar Allan Poe and the rise of H.P. Lovecraft. Bierce’s death was as mysterious as his strange stories; sometime around 1914 he left for Mexico, wanting to experience the Mexican Revolution firsthand, and was never to be seen again.

Download or read book Billy Hill Godfather of London The Unparalleled Saga of Britain s Most Powerful Post War Crime Boss written by Wensley Clarkson and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There will never be another Billy Hill - Reggie Kray. Bill had a great brain. There's no two ways about it - Frankie Fraser. I made Billy Hill. Then he got over the top of me. I should have shot Billy Hill. I really should. I'd have got ten years for it but it would have made me happy and I'd be out now - laughing - Jack Spot. I have no doubt that during his career Hill had some very senior officers in his pocket - Leonard 'Nipper' Read, legendary Scotland Yard detective. Billy Hill was Britain's first celebrity gangster. Born in London's impoverished Seven Dials, by the early 1950's he had control of the city's gambling rackets and masterminded a heist that set the template for the Great Train Robbery. He ruled the roost in the bloody era when the underworld's choice of weapon was the open razor. His violent clashes with onetime ally turned enemy Jack Spot became the stuff of legend, as Hill and his henchmen left the streets of Soho running red. But Hill was astute enough to choose his moment to get out, abdicating in favour of his gun-toting young protégés, the Kray twins . . . In this fast-moving biography, Wensley Clarkson charts the life of the only post-war British villain to truly make crime pay.

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Download or read book The Carriage Journal Vol 59 No 5 October 2021 written by Ken Wheeling and published by Carriage Assoc. of America. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the cover: Laura Kunze driving Bribance to a Demarest Wicker Phaeton in the Novice Horse division at the 2021 Villa Louis Carriage Classic in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Features: Eagle Eyes: The 2021 Carriage Showcase in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin A Brief Overview of the Exciting 1893 World's Columbian Exposition by Kathleen Haak Our Shared Past: The View From The Box A Backward Glance Do You Know? Memories: - The Great Petersham Coach Caper by Ken Wheeling - Treasures From The Attic with Ann Sanders - The Guinea Hunter's Tip and Its Sad Results by Tom Ryder Carriage & Driving: Getting Started: Bridles by Tom Ryder On the Road: Route de Lorraine 2021 by Stephan Broeckx In the Stable Our Community: The Passing Scene Welcome Letter to the Editor