The Last Founding Father
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Harlow Giles Unger
From the New York Times bestselling author, the larger than life story of America's fifth president, who transformed a small, fragile nation into a powerful empire In this compelling biography, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals the epic story of James Monroe (1758-1831)-the last of America's Founding Fathers-who transformed a small, fragile nation beset by enemies into a powerful empire stretching "from sea to shining sea." Like David McCullough's John Adams and Jon Meacham's American Lion, The Last Founding Father is both a superb read and stellar scholarship-action-filled history in the grand tradition.
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Author
Harlow Giles Unger
Pages
320
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Published Date
2009-09-29
ISBN
0786745878 9780786745876
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"A very nice examination of the 5th president, made more interesting after having just read the Madison biography, since each author believes their subject to be the more honest and upstanding one and take a completely different view of the rare disagreements between the two."
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