Death or Glory: The Dark History of the World Cup
In the war zone sweet, slovenly, unwashed little Lina with her tear-stained face, advanced alone, Prince of Homburg style:10 My noble uncle Frederick of Mark Brandenburg! Natalie! Hold, hold! O God of Heaven and Earth, now he is quite undone, no matter, no matter! She shot off, making a bee-line for the stand of the white-haired man. Franz, long-su
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It was a complete rout. The empire that had once dominated the Americas had been defeated entirely in less than four months—a “splendid little war,” the ambassador to Britain remarked to Roosevelt. Back home, writers crowed about the vigor of the United States and the decrepitude of Spain. The Spanish empire was a “house of cards,” wrote Woodrow Wi
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And the Money Kept Rolling in (And Out): Wall Street, the Imf, And the Bankrupting of Argentina: Wall Street, the IMF and the Bankrupting of Argentina
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