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January 16, 2024

The Journals of John Cheever

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Free Download The Journals of John Cheever by John Cheever, Robert Gottlieb
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0307387259 | 399 Pages | EPUB | 1.9 MB
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s journals provide peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories.

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January 15, 2024

John Wesley’s Political World

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Free Download Glen O’Brien, "John Wesley’s Political World "
English | ISBN: 1032111488 | 2022 | 228 pages | EPUB, PDF | 949 KB + 20 MB
This book employs a global history approach to John Wesley’s (1703-1791) political and social tracts. It stresses the personal element in Wesley’s political thought, focusing on the twin themes of ‘liberty and loyalty’. Wesley’s political writings reflect on the impact of global conflicts on Britain and provide insight into the political responses of the broader religious world of the eighteenth century.

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January 14, 2024

Oracle of Lost Causes John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War

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Free Download Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War by Matthew Christopher Hulbert
English | September 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1496211871 | 360 pages | PDF | 9.23 Mb
John Newman Edwards was a soldier, a father, a husband, and a noted author. He was also a virulent alcoholic, a duelist, a culture warrior, and a man perpetually at war with the modernizing world around him. From the sectional crisis of his boyhood and the battlefields of the western borderlands to the final days of the Second Mexican Empire and then back to a United States profoundly changed by the Civil War, Oracle of Lost Causes chronicles Edwards’s lifelong quest to preserve a mythical version of the Old World-replete with aristocrats, knights, damsels, and slaves-in North America.

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January 12, 2024

The Last Lincoln Conspirator John Surratt’s Flight from the Gallows

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Free Download Andrew C. A. Jampoler, "The Last Lincoln Conspirator: John Surratt’s Flight from the Gallows"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1591144078, 1591144086 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 2.0 mb
Despite all that has been written about the April 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the story of John Surratt-the only conspirator who got away-remains untold and largely unknown. The capture and shooting of John Wilkes Booth twelve days after he shot Lincoln is a well-known and well-covered story. The fate of the eight other accomplices of Booth has also been widely written about. Four, including Surratt’s mother, Mary, were convicted and hanged, and four were jailed. John Surratt alone managed to evade capture for twenty months and escape punishment once he was put on trial. In this tale of adventure and mystery, Andrew Jampoler tells what happened to that last conspirator, who after Booth’s death became the most wanted man in America.

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