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Oscar Wilde - Richard Ellmann - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=FVNwAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT379
Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two…
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Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons ... - Arthur Goldwag - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=DDbM5GeMgXIC&pg=PR204
Did you know?• Freemasonry's first American lodge included a young Benjamin Franklin among its members. • The Knights Templar began as impoverished warrior monks then evolved into bankers. • Groom Lake, Dreamland, Homey Airport, Paradise Ranch, The Farm,…
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA - Tim Weiner - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=vf9ZJx8WkjQC&pg=PA566
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how…
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Arsenals of Folly - Richard Rhodes - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=corDMrurk9sC&pg=PT175
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a…
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Marco Polo - Laurence Bergreen - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=x-PZdFbG6dEC&pg=PA24#v=onepage
As the first European to travel extensively throughout Asia, Marco Polo was the earliest bridge between East and West. His famous journeys took him across the boundaries of the known world, along the dangerous Silk Road, and into the court of Kublai Kahn,…
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LITTLE GLORIA - Barbara Goldsmith - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=QPaQNMkgYwwC&pg=PT191&lpg=PT191
This is a story of money, glamour, and scandal (on the highest level); a story of American society and of European royalty; a story of family strife exploding into one of the most dramatic and publicized court battles of the century—the battle for a solemn…
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Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music - Glenn Kurtz - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=_88190O7gG8C&pg=PT128&dq=kithara+tar&hl=de&sa=X&ei=OI0NU_7NCYavygPmy4CYBQ#v=onepage&q=kithara%2
In a remarkable memoir written with insight and humor, Glenn Kurtz takes us from his first lessons at the age of eight to his acceptance at the elite New England Conservatory of Music. After graduation, he attempts a solo career in Vienna but soon realizes…
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Gulag: A History - Anne Applebaum - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=fCurJRhH-GgC&pg=PT45&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. The Gulag--a vast…
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The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama - Gwen Ifill - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=QbomCeMhHxsC&pg=PA179
In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential victory and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new…
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The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the ... - John B. Judis - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=l79_waHsX-kC&pg=PT74
John B. Judis, one of our most insightful political commentators, most rational and careful thinkers, and most engaged witnesses in Washington, has taken on a challenge that even the most concerned American citizens shrink from: forecasting the American…