Richard McGonagle

A thought-provoking study of Andrew Jackson chronicles the life and career of a self-made man who went on to become a military hero and seventh president of the United States, critically analyzing Jackson's seminal role during a turbulent era in history, the political crises and personal upheaval that surrounded him, and his legacy for the modern presidency.

In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. Radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the crisis to further a long-held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and...

Tom and Jerry team up with Sherlock Holmes to solve a mystery involving some sinister felines.

Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea.
 
As a prisoner of war, Andrew Jackson walked several miles barefoot across state lines while suffering from smallpox and a serious head wound received when he refused to polish the boots of the soldiers who had taken him captive. He was thirteen years old. A few decades later, he became the first popularly elected president and...

Tim Hess is a semi-retired veteran cop staring at a death sentence - his own. In the throes of a losing battle with throat cancer, his time is literally running out. He accepts a job tracking down a killer who's been abducting young women from Orange County. Merci Rayborn has a a reputation for causing trouble and isn't particularly popular with her peers or her superiors. Hess isn't thrilled about taking orders from this difficult but smart woman...