James Monroe
The Quest for National Identity
Published on 31. March 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
736 pages
978-0-8139-1266-0 (ISBN)
Description
A biography of James Monroe who became the fifth president of the United States in 1816. Ammon recreates his remarkable career, through his service in the revolutionary army, the Confederation Congress, to his exertions in James Madison's cabinet and his subsequent presidency.
Reviews / Votes
This monumental survey of James Monroe's life and career is exhaustively researched and documented, a work of patient and perceptive scholarship that sheds a good deal of light on the politics and personalities of the early American Republic." -Publishers Weekly"From Monroe's birth on the Virginia Tidewater, through his service in the revolutionary army, the Confederation Congress, the United States Senate, and as governor of Virginia, to his diplomatic missions, exertions in Madison's cabinet, and presidency, we now have a detailed authoritative recording of that remarkable career.. One feels sure that we now have, for a long time to come, the book on Monroe to which all will turn." -Ralph Ketcham, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Charlottesville
United States
Target group
College/higher education
US School Grade: Twelfth Grade and over
Illustrations
8 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
1175 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8139-1266-0 (9780813912660)
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Person
Harry Ammon is Professor Emeritus of History at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is also the author of The Genet Mission (1973).