Eliza's True Story: The First Biography of President Monroe's Eldest Daughter

For almost two hundred years, the historical narrative about Eliza Monroe stated that after her father died, she threw a tantrum, abandoned her family and country, and stormed off to Europe to live out the rest of her life in Paris. All the major Monroe biographers said so. But was it true? For author Barbara VornDick, this narrow, oft-repeated tale did not make sense. Five years of digging through letters, court documents, and archives on both sides of the Atlantic uncovered documents buri...