BOOKS
Ammon, Harry.
James Monroe. The Quest for National Identity.
Charlottesville / London, University Press Of Virginia , 1999.
€ 12.50
Softcover, 706pp., 15.5x23cm., few illustr. in b/w, in very good condition (covers with light traces of use, paper edges somewhat yellowed, faint smell of tobacco). ISBN: 9780813912660.
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.