James Monroe

5 best books like James Monroe (Gary Hart): Master of the Senate, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Superman Versus The Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate, Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents, James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity

Master of the Senate

Author	Robert A. Caro
ISBN	0394720954

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered...

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Author	Joseph J. Ellis
ISBN	0679764410

It started when I was reading Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage, this niggling feeling of discomfort I get when reading a book when the author seems to be taking opportunities to lionize his/her subjects – or at the very least, portraying them in a simplistic, single facet. I’ve had this issue with...

Superman Versus The Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate

Author	Rick Bowers
ISBN	1426309155

This book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan. It is the story of the two Cleveland teenagers who invented Superman as a defender of the little guy and the New York wheeler-dealers who made him a major media force....

Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents

Author	Robert Strauss
ISBN	1493024833

Worst. President. Ever. flips the great presidential biography on its head, offering an enlightening and highly entertaining account of poor James Buchanan's presidency to prove once and for all that, well, few leaders could have done worse.

But author Robert Strauss does much more, leading...

James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity

Author	Harry Ammon
ISBN	0813912660

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“James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity” by Harry Ammon was originally published in 1971, making it the oldest of the well-read biographies of our fifth president (though this is not a particularly crowded field). Ammon is formerly...