| Edition |
First paperback edition. |
| Description |
xix, 706 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1971. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 676-687) and index. |
| Contents |
Youth and education -- Aide to Lord Stirling -- Political apprenticeship -- The confederation congress, 1783-1786 -- Lawyer and farmer, 1786-1790 -- Senator and party leader, 1790-1794 -- Minister to France -- Thermidorian France -- A diplomat returns -- Governor of Virginia -- Republicanism triumphant -- The Louisiana purchase -- England and Spain -- The rejected treaty -- A quarrel and a reconciliation -- Secretary of state -- The nation in peril -- The capital invaded -- Peace and politics -- The era of good feelings: ideal -- The era of good feelings: reality -- The White House -- Spain and her colonies: the problem -- Spain and her colonies: the solution -- The politics of slavery -- The politics of retrenchment -- An American system -- The war of the giants -- Presidential politics and diplomacy -- The end of an age -- Last years. |
| Subject |
Monroe, James, 1758-1831.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1817-1825.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0813912660 |
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