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American Umpire

American Umpire

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

In American Umpire Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman asserts instead that America has performed the role of umpire since 1776, compelling adherence to rules that gradually earned broad approval, and violating them as well.
American Umpire

American Umpire

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

In American Umpire Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman asserts instead that America has performed the role of umpire since 1776, compelling adherence to rules that gradually earned broad approval, and violating them as well.
American Umpire

American Umpire

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

In American Umpire Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman asserts instead that America has performed the role of umpire since 1776, compelling adherence to rules that gradually earned broad approval, and violating them as well.
Thomas Paine: Common Sense for the Modern Era

Thomas Paine: Common Sense for the Modern Era

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THOMAS PAINE AND THE INTELLECTUAL UNDERPINNING OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY Joyce Appleby Elizabeth Cobbs-Hoffman I am Elizabeth Cobbs- Hoffman, chair of the history department, and I hold the Dwight Stanford Chair of  ...
Historians as Expert Judicial Witnesses in Tobacco ...

Historians as Expert Judicial Witnesses in Tobacco ...

Ramses Delafontaine

Name Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman Professional occupation Dwight Stanford Chair in U.S. Foreign Relations Institution San ... http://elizabethcobbshoffman.com/ Short description Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman is the Dwight E. Stanford Chair in US  ...
The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers

The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers

Elizabeth Cobbs

In 1918 the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France to help win World War I. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges these patriotic young women faced in a war zone where male soldiers resented, wooed, mocked, saluted, and ultimately ...
All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the ...

All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the ...

Elizabeth COBBS HOFFMAN

All you need is love : the Peace Corps and the spirit of the 1960s / Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0- 674-01635-1 (cloth) ISBN 0-674-00380-2 (pbk.) 1. Peace Corps (U.S.)— History. I. Title.
The Hamilton Affair: The Epic Love Story of Alexander ...

The Hamilton Affair: The Epic Love Story of Alexander ...

Elizabeth Cobbs

Praise for THE HAMILTON AFFAIR: 'The Hamilton novel that immediately leaps to the top of the list' Joseph J. Ellis 'A portrait of a love so deep it was able to survive betrayal and a devastatingly public scandal' Booklist 'Cobbs' depiction ...
Broken Promises: A Novel of the Civil War

Broken Promises: A Novel of the Civil War

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

As tensions mount, irrevocable choices are made—igniting a moment when history could have changed forever. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Rich Neighbor Policy: Rockefeller and Kaiser in Brazil

The Rich Neighbor Policy: Rockefeller and Kaiser in Brazil

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

'This book spells out in greater detail than any other study the complex relationship between public and private sectors in the operations of U.S. capitalism in Latin American after World War II. It should prove useful in the continuing ...
Major Problems in American History

Major Problems in American History

Elizabeth Cobbs

This collection serves as the primary anthology for the introductory survey course, covering the subject's entire chronological span. Comprehensive topical coverage includes politics, economics, labor, gender, culture, and social trends.
Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World ...

Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World ...

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ELIZABETH COBBS HOFFMAN We are in the middle of a world revolution— and I don't mean Communism. The Communists are. . . just moving in on the crest of a wave. The revolution I'm talking about is that of the little people all over the ...
Major Problems in American History

Major Problems in American History

Elizabeth Cobbs

Timothy B. Tyson of Duke University looks at the career of Robert F. Williams, who first advocated the strategy of militant resistance to white violence. Williams's viewpoint was shocking to many at the time, but Tyson argues that Williams ...
In the Lion's Den: A Novel of the Civil War

In the Lion's Den: A Novel of the Civil War

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

"In the Lion's Den" is an epic tale of intrigue, loyalty, and courage set in London and New York at a time when the British Empire was at its zenith and the American nation in collapse.
All you need is love: the Peace Corps and the spirit of the ...

All you need is love: the Peace Corps and the spirit of the ...

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

Song from author's conversation with Jonathan Coulter (British Overseas Development Administration), Accra, Ghana, January 19, 1995; James Jouppi, "A Journey to Nakorn Panome," 26, JFKL, RPCV, box 12. 67. Quotes taken from Schwarz, ...
The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy

The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy

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Daniel Immerwahr, “Quests for Community” (PhD diss., University of California– Berkeley, 2011), iv, 124; Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, All You Need Is Love ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 41–42. 41 Immerwahr, “Quests for ...
Major Problems in American History: Since 1865

Major Problems in American History: Since 1865

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Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Jon Gjerde. Major lUGL E 173 .M246 2007 v.2 ms in American History Mc.j~. Problems in American History Volume 2: Since 1865 Titles Currently Available Allitt, Major Problems in American Religious History,.
Appendix to the House and Senate Journals of the General ...

Appendix to the House and Senate Journals of the General ...

Missouri. General Assembly

1910 January 4 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary February 1 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary March 1 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary April 2 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary May 2 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary May 31 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary July 1 — Elizabeth ...
Under a Silent Moon

Under a Silent Moon

Elizabeth Haynes

Elizabeth Haynes. Elizabeth Haynes worked for many years as a police analyst. Her debut novel, Into the Darkest Corner, won Amazon's Book of the Year in 2011 and Amazon's Rising Star Award for debut novels. Elizabeth grew up in Sussex ...
I Remember Well...

I Remember Well...

Elizabeth Donaldson

Memoirs of Elizabeth Donaldson, compiled by her son Ian and based on notes made by Elizabeth.
Elizabeth I and Ireland

Elizabeth I and Ireland

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... Elizabeth was able to turn her gender to advantage in manoeuvring through the male-dominated world of high politics.5 Natalie Mears's more recent work on Elizabeth and queenship has tacked differently in pursuit of monarchical authority .
Stitches in Time

Stitches in Time

Elizabeth Donaldson

Elizabeth Donaldson. Stitches In Time Copyright © 2012 by Elizabeth Donaldson First Edition –September 2012. A Collection by Elizabeth Donaldson Axel Anderson Sowing Wood wlTh Eric. EllZobeTh ls ln bdckground.
Elizabeth: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor

J. Randy Taraborrelli

This moving book traces for the first time Elizabeth's journey through the dark and often lonely world of a fame unparalleled in the 1960s and 1970s, a time during which alcohol and drugs played a major part in her life.
BodyGuard:

BodyGuard:

Jennifer Ashley

Having grown up in foster care, Elizabeth can only admire how protective Ronan is. But Ronan will only let Elizabeth leave the confines of Shiftertown if he becomes her 24/7 bodyguard. Elizabeth chafes at the restriction, but agrees.
Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in ...

Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in ...

Patricia Cleary

28 Elizabeth [Murray] Smith to [Mrs. Rowe], 24 April 1770. 29 Elizabeth [Murray] Smith to Mrs. Dehlois, 1 3 April 1 770, JMR. 30 Elizabeth [Murray] Smith to unknown. [Fehruary 1770], JMR. 31 Elizabeth (Murray Smith to James Murray, ...
Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence

Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence

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Emily Herring Wilson. Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence — A Friendship in Letters No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence North Carolina Women: Making History (co-authored with Margaret Supplee ...
Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the ...

Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the ...

Elizabeth Jacoway

Her employer was Dr. Joseph Buchman; Elizabeth Eckford interview with Elizabeth Jacoway,Aug. 14, 2003, p.38, EJC. Eckford interview with Jacoway, Aug. 14, 2003, p. 26; Ted Pos- ton,“Nine Kids Who Dared: Elizabeth Ann Eckford, ” Oct. 23, ...
Tribute: Elizabeth Taylor: Elizabeth Taylor

Tribute: Elizabeth Taylor: Elizabeth Taylor

Dina Gachman

Some say Elizabeth Taylor was the last great movie star.

who called from an unknown number?