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The former senator offers a provocative new assessment of the first "national security president"--James Monroe--remembered for being the last of the Virginia d

A richly detailed biography of the president whose Monroe Doctrine continues to guide American policy to the present day.

The extraordinary life of James Monroe: soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who helped transform thirteen col