Book Review: Franklin Pierce, New Hampshire's Favorite Son -- by Peter A. Wallner, a highly readable, fresh look at our 16th President, the first of two volumes, published November, 2004. The second volume was published in June of 2007

Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States Born Hillsborough, New Hampshire, November, 23, 1804. Lawyer, Speaker of the N. H. House, Congressman, U.S. Senator, Brigadier General in the Mexican War.

Volume 1 Order the book here: Link 

Volume 2 Order the book here: Link

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• Book Review: Styles Bridge Yankee Senator -- by James J. Kiepper, with a foreword by Robert D. Novak -- Excellent, long awaited biography of a legendary senate figure of the World War II and Cold War eras.

• Book Review: One Hundred Famous Founders -- by Meldrim Thomson, Jr.
  Fresh profiles of key figures in America's Revolutionary period. A top notch selection and great resource for personal or school libraries by a former New Hampshire governor.
  
  
• Book Review: Birth of the Republican Party -- By Hugh Gregg and Georgi Hippauf
  A look at the founding of the Republican Party at Exeter. N. H. in 1853.
  
  
• Book Review: It's Never Too Late With God! -- By Helen Dexter
  A widow in her late sixties overcomes obstacles to found a school and orphanage in a remote part of India. (Note: Helen Dexter is profiled in the April, 1998 issue of New Hampshire Magazine.)
  (To Order Helen Dexter's book)
  
  
• Reviewers' Comments: Rockingham Park - 1933-1969 -- By Paul Peter Jesep Charming story of one of the great race tracks of all time, situated in New Hampshire at the Massachusetts border, and the colorful couple behind it.

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• Profile of Elizabeth Yates -- By Dean Dexter
  Celebrated children's author (from the April, 1998 issue of New Hampshire Magazine)
   
• Bibliography of Neil Shapiro, science fiction writer and founding editor of MacUser Magazine
   

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  Dr. Roger A. Morse, director of Cornell's Dyce Laboratory for Honey Bee Studies, summer 1969, Photo by Dean Dexter
  
  

• The New Complete Guide to Beekeeping -- By Roger A. Morse
  Learn to buy or capture a bee colony, manage bee care and feeding all year; extract, process, and sell honey. $15.
  (To Order: 800-245-4151 - The Countryman Press)
  
  
• Richard Archbold and the Archbold Biological Station -- By Roger A. Morse
  From the University Press of Florida -- A profile of one of the great unsung pioneers of the natural sciences and conservation, and the noted Florida research center and natural area which bears his name.
• Roger Morse

Cornell's late bee expert, Dr. Roger A. Morse on the grounds of the Dyce Laboratory for Honey Bee Studies, summer 1969 -- Photos by Dean Dexter, all rights reserved.

Review on Morse research related to Meade

Morse Wikipedia page

Roger A. Morse, Expert on Bees' Sweet Science, Dies at 72 -- The New York Times, May 21, 2000

Cornell News Release

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