Frank Hardy has planned a birthday surprise party for his girlfriend, Callie Shaw - a plane ride. Unfortunately, the plane was sabotage and crash. Both Frank and Joe were unhurt but Callie, who didn't wore her seatbelt suffer severe concussion. Things began to get worse Frank was being accused of carelessness. Now the Hardy brothers have to race to find out why they were being sabotage and as well as to clear Frank's name.

Although I have recently switched to another textbook for my Media Law class, I greatly enjoyed using as a class text Carter's First Amendment and the Fourth Estate. The text lent itself to excellent discussions in class and readily provided excellent case studies and reading material for the students. (Currently I use two texts for such diversity). My only concern is that, at an undergraduate level, the book is unclear on direction for the student not versed in legal and analytical thinking, and like all comphrehensive and advanced texts, a bit too overwhelming academically for freshmen and sophomores. I would highly recommend the text, however, for graduate studies in media law.

Not until this new study has anyone examined tthe Roosevelt near-assassination as a criminal case that holds up American jurisprudence and American medicine to embarrassing scrutiny. Not until this new book has any writer delved deeply into the background, motivations and psyche of the assassin. Because of the importance of Zangara's intended victim, who ranks as one of the great men of history, this obscure episode clearly deserves the "sober analysis" that Blaise Picchi has given it. Future FDR biographers: Take note.

An excellent review of flap (local and regional) surgery.

Good for the senior resident and junior attending level.

This is a great book for preschoolers experiencing the birth of a baby. Franklin is a beloved character of young children these days. He experiences the birth of his friends baby. Kids and adults alike can relate to some of the universal emotions around this topic

I was struck by the fact that even though with the story of Franklin D. Roosevelt we are talking about a man elected to the Presidency for four terms that author Alice Osinski only devotes half of the ten chapters in this volume of the Encyclopedia of Presidents to his time in the White House. The opening chapter, following the format of this series, focuses on a pivotal moment in the life of its subject. In FDR's case it would be the day he took the oath of office on March 4, 1933, when the nation was hoping that a man who had fought against the crippling effects of a disease and learned to walk ago could help bring the country to its feet as well.

Roosevelt's life and political career makes for a solid organizational structure for this volume. Early chapters cover his privileged life as the scion of a wealthy family, his education, and his marriage to his (fifth) cousin Eleanor. Roosevelt's early political career is seen as "Following in the Footsteps of Cousin Teddy" and young readers will probably be surprised to learn that FDR was on the Democratic ticket in 1920 as the running mate of James M. Cox. Osinski makes an interesting strategic choice by labelling FDR's attack of polio as "A Minor Setback"; certainly, in retrospective it constiuted such, but clearly at the time it had to look like the end of any and all political ambitions for Roosevelt (Note: The chapter is only 3 pages long, which explains why there are only a "few" chapter on the Presidency--they are longer chapters).

After a chapter looking at Roosevelt's political comeback, being elected governor of New York in 1928, and then President four years later. The chapters devoted to FDR's presidency are not defined by his terms, but rather by the issues with which he dealt: the New Deal as a response to the Great Depression, establishing the Arsenal of Democracy as preparation for World War II, American involvement in World II (going past FDR's death in 1945), and a final chapter looking at Roosevelt's political legacy. The strength of this volume is that it provides not only the biographical details of FDR's life, but tries to give young readers a good sense of his important accomplishments in transforming the role of government in the United States.

In the end Osinksi claims that for better or worse, no other president has had a deeper or more lasting impact on life in the United States. Abraham Lincoln saved the union, but Franklin D. Roosevelt changed the relationship between the people and their government. The institutions created by FDR to prevent another Great Depression exist today, as do other social programs. The book is illustrated with black & white photographs from FDR's personal and political life, including a couple of nice political cartoons by Berryman (you can never have too many of those). Granted, these books do not look modern (you would swear they were printed in the 1950s), but they are quite informative, which is the desired goal.

"Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Photo-Illustrated Biography" by Steve Potts is a brief biography of the 32nd President of the United States intended for younger readers. Potts begins by contrasting the fact that Roosevelt served longer than any other president with his being confined to a wheelchair. The format is quite simple: a full page black & white photograph on the left-side of each two-page spread with three or four paragraphs of text under appropriate headings from "School Years" and "Franklin and Eleanor" to "The Great Depression" and "World War II." The point here is clearly to introduce very young readers to the main elements of FDR's life. Consequently, it is short of details but long on highlights. The back of the book includes a couple of famous Words spoken by FDR, Important Dates in his life, Words to Know, and a list of books, addresses and Internet sites for additional information. There are lots of more detailed juvenile histories of Roosevelt available, but this is a good place to start for those who want to find out more about the face on the dime.

Young Franklin Turtle keeps his room clean, helps out with chores, and is becoming a responsible turtle. When he learns that Mr. Mole is leaving on a four-day vacation and needs someone to water his flower garden, Franklin quickly volunteers. However, Franklin soon learns that agreeing to the job may have been more than he bargained.

This book based on a children's television show is a delight to read to children. The illustrations are taken directly from the show and are bright, full of color and action. The moral of this particular story is about being responsible for the things we do and don't do in life. Great for children ages 3-8.

Reading juvenile biographies of Franklin Pierce is rather depressing because we are talking about arguably the greatest failure ever to be elected to the Presidency. In this volume for the Our Presidents series author Steven Ferry tries to put the best face on things, calling the first chapter A Promising Start, but the other chapters make it clear the course of Pierce's life: Life in Politics, An Unhappy President, and A Sad Ending. In fact, young readers will discover that most of Pierce's adult life was a sad time. His wife, Jane, disapproved of his life in politics, all three of their sons died; the last in between Pierce's election and inaugural. Pierce served briefly in the U.S. Senate but gave up his seat to practice law in Concord, New Hampshire to please his wife. He turned down the post of Attorney General in the Polk Administration for similar reasons.

Young students reading this juvenile biography will wonder why it was that Pierce was ever nominated for the White House by the Democrats in the first place (actually it was about the 50th place once you counted all the Convention ballots it took). Although he served in the Mexican War, rising from private to brigadier soldier, he was not a war hero; at least, not in the same sense as General Winfield Scott, who was the Whig candidate in 1952. Pierce was selected because Southerners wanted someone who approved of slavery and Northerners appreciated the fact he had not made any enemies in politics, mainly because he had never done anything. However, this was not a good time to be in the White House and the story of Pierce's one time in office is that the slavery issue was threatening to tear the nation in two. His administration accomplished virtually nothing and his ideas for expanding the United States into Central America was rejected. When he sent federal troops to put down the abolitionist government established in "Bleeding Kansas," Democrats refused to re-nominate Pierce in 1956.

I am not sure why Pierce is considered a worse President than his successor, James Buchannan, who also did essentially nothing but put off the coming of the Civil War for a few more years. Ultimately, the personal tragedies of his family life overwhelm the story of his political career. Ferry provides a basic biography of Pierce and in the final analysis tries to focus on the fact he was an honest man who wanted to uphold the Constitution. However, the judgment of history is that Pierce was not able to solve the problem of slavery and probably made things worse.

This is a handsome look volume, filled with photographs and paintings, focusing on the life and times of Franklin Pierce. Each chapter has a sidebar and the fact that these are as likely to be devoted to topics in which Pierce was not involved, such as the attack by Representative Preston Brooks on Senator Charles Sumner in Congress, again speaks to Pierce as a political cipher. As always, the margins have all sorts of interesting facts, such as how the cabin in which Pierce was born is now underwater because a river was dammed to create a lake called Lake Franklin Pierce. This book provides basic biographical information about Pierce, but it is hard to come up with a really interesting book about a fairly uninteresting and extremely unhappy man.