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• Title : The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
• Author : Harlow Giles Unger
• Rating : 4.66 (496 Vote)
• Publish : 2016-3-27
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 400 Pages
• Asin : B003R4ZBJG
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His descriptions of the American and French Revolutions, the events surrounding the Louisiana Purchase, and the War of 1812 are among the most lucid I’ve read.”Richmond Times-Dispatch, 11/29/2009 “The Last Founding Father is co

His descriptions of the American and French Revolutions, the events surrounding the Louisiana Purchase, and the War of 1812 are among the most lucid I’ve read.”Richmond Times-Dispatch, 11/29/2009 “The Last Founding Father is compelling both as a biography of a fascinating, unfairly neglected politician and a swift-reading account of the founding of a nation.”Bookreporter, 12/11/2009 “Supremely well-written and enlightening…Unger shows us much more than just a president…Unger goes a long way to opening up the eyes of a reader to the vast value Monroe had at the founding of our nation, and taking stock of all his achievements along the way brings a great sense of sadness that such a patriot should be so readily forgotten.”Boston Globe, 12/26/09 “Will do much to rais

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minister to France and Britain, governor of Virginia, secretary of state, secretary of war, and finally America’s fifth president. In this lively and compelling biography Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation. The country embraced Monroe’s dreams of empire and elected him to two terms, the second time unanimously. A fierce fighter in four critical Revolutionary War battles and a courageous survivor of Valley Forge and a near-fatal wound at the Battle of Trenton, James Monroe (17511831) went on to become America’s first full-time politician, dedicating his life to securing America’s national and international durability.Decorated by George Washington for his exploits as a soldier, Monroe became a congressman, a senator, U.S. Mentored by each of America’s first four presidents, Monroe was unquestionably the best prepared president in our histo