![]() ![]() I’ve often felt that I gave Monroe the credit he deserved for his Presidency, but I was wrong. That has changed with Harlow Giles Unger’s The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness ( Da Capo Press, Paperback, 2010). James Monroe is the forgotten Founding Father, overshadowed by his predecessors in the Presidency – George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison – denigrated as a simple man whose accomplishments were credited to others, and relegated to the background of history because he hasn’t had the same justice done to his legacy by historians and biographers of the past 200 years. “ He was entitled to say, like Augustus Caesar of his imperial city, that he had found her built of brick and left her constructed of marble.” – John Quincy Adams, eulogizing James Monroe in the House of Representatives, 1831 The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness ![]() REVIEW: The Last Founding Father by Harlow Giles Unger ![]()
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