Akron Public Library

Includes bibliographies and index. Contains analyses of the presidents and their administrations on domestic and international affairs from George Washington to Jimmy Carter.

Complete with period paintings and photos, a comprehensive guide provides profiles, biographies, administration highlights, and political and personal accomplishments of every President and First Lady in the history of the United States.

Looks at the life of Abraham Lincoln, a farmer boy who grew up to become the sixteenth president of the United States and the man responsible for leading the country through the Civil War.

An illustrated biography tells the life of the third president of the United States, a book-lover, self-taught architect, and author of the Declaration of Independence.

In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph-a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy.

Washington. Amid the shuffle of tourists and the brisk rush of government officials, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a hail of gunfire. A group of terrorists has descended on the Executive Mansion and gained access by means of a violent massacre that left dozens murdered. Through the quick actions of the Secret Service, the president is evacuated to his underground bunker, but not before almost one hundred hostages are taken. Mitch...

The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents' Day at school.

Presents a non-fiction companion to the book "Abe Lincoln At Last!," discussing what it was like to grow up in a log cabin and what Lincoln's family life was like, and describes how he became the sixteenth president of the United States.

Presents an assortment of facts about the qualifications and characteristics of U. S. presidents, from George Washington to Bill Clinton.

"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...