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James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity

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ISBN-10:: 0813912660
ISBN-13:: 9780813912660
Pub. Date:: 03/15/1990
Publisher:: University of Virginia Press

ISBN-10:: 0813912660
ISBN-13:: 9780813912660
Pub. Date:: 03/15/1990
Publisher:: University of Virginia Press

James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity

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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.

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ISBN-13:	9780813912660
Publisher:	University of Virginia Press
Publication date:	03/15/1990
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	706
Sales rank:	239,456
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Harry Ammon is Professor Emeritus of History at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is also the author of The Genet Mission (1973).

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"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.

Virginia Magazine of History and Biography - Ralph Ketcham

"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. "—author of 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, author of Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

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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

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