Portrait of America: From Reconstruction to the presentHoughton Mifflin, 1978 |
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... house , and associate justice of the state supreme court ; Mississippi had a Negro lieutenant governor , secretary of state , superintendent of education , and speaker of the house ; Louisiana had a Negro lieutenant governor , secretary ...
... house , and associate justice of the state supreme court ; Mississippi had a Negro lieutenant governor , secretary of state , superintendent of education , and speaker of the house ; Louisiana had a Negro lieutenant governor , secretary ...
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... House , could never forget a typical White House scene - the President's study filled with cronies ; cards and poker chips on the table ; whisky and tall glasses on the trays ; the air thick with cigar smoke ; a general atmosphere of ...
... House , could never forget a typical White House scene - the President's study filled with cronies ; cards and poker chips on the table ; whisky and tall glasses on the trays ; the air thick with cigar smoke ; a general atmosphere of ...
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... House usher , " ever slept so much . " In his dozen or so waking hours , he did as little as possible . In his Autobiography he singled out one rule as more important than any other : " It consists in never doing anything that some- one ...
... House usher , " ever slept so much . " In his dozen or so waking hours , he did as little as possible . In his Autobiography he singled out one rule as more important than any other : " It consists in never doing anything that some- one ...
Contents
Thunder in D Alexander Brown | 42 |
the West 5 Day of the Cattleman | 50 |
Gilded Age Bernard A Weisberger | 84 |
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