Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

Personal Memoirs, by Ulysses S. Grant

| Saturday, November 29, 2008
They did not hold the States where slavery existed responsible for it; and believed that protection should be given to the right of property in slaves until some satisfactory way could be reached to be rid of the institution


Paperback: 740 pages
Publisher: Barnes & Noble (2003)
ISBN: 978-0760749906

The Lucifer Principle, by Howard Bloom

| Sunday, November 23, 2008
I have broken it, sir.
[quoting the Chandogya Upanishad, vi, 13]


Paperback: 466 pages
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; 1st Pbk. Ed edition (March 13, 1997)
ISBN: 978-0871136640

The Cartoon History of the Universe 2: Volumes 8-13 by Larry Gonick

| Wednesday, November 5, 2008
He headed for the nearest armed Chins . . . led his men across a river, and ordered them to burn their boats and baggage.


Paperback: 305 pages
Publisher: Main Street Books/Doubleday (September 18, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0385420938