The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness

ISBN-13:	9780306819186
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	09/28/2010
Edition description:	First Trade Paper Edition
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	109,120
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

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.