Frank Carlson Library

A biography of President Polk, who greatly added to the territory of the United States especially during the Mexican War.

Highlights the life and accomplishments of the twenty-seventh president of the United States, also the only man in history to hold the top job in two of the three branches of United States government.

Examines the life of the fourth president of the United States, who was known as the Father of the Constitution.

Traces the life of the rowdy "Hero of New Orleans" from his backwoods beginnings through his military career to his term as seventh president of the United States.

Frank Horrigan, a veteran Secret Service agent haunted by his failure to protect JFK from assassination gets a chance to redeem himself when a brilliant psychopath threatens to kill the current president and take Horrigan with him.

The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature. Begun in 1779 at the age of twelve and kept more or less faithfully until his death almost 70 years later, it is both an unrivaled record of historical events and personalities from the nation's founding to the antebellum era and a masterpiece of American self-portraiture, tracing the spiritual, literary, and scientific interests of an exceptionally lively...