Tim McGrath- JAMES MONROE: A Life

Among the extraordinary group of early Americans who became known as the Founding Fathers, James Monroe may be the least recognized.  But with the remarkable range of his service to the nation, and his extraordinary skill in shepherding the young nation through one of its most perilous periods, he and his achievements find new resonance and relevance in our own time.  Now, drawing on newly available primary sources, acclaimed biographer and historian Tim McGrath presents the first biography of the fifth president in more than a decade, JAMES MONROE: A Life (Dutton). Tim McGrath is a two-time winner of the Commodore John Barry Book Award, as well as the author of the critically acclaimed biography John Barry: An American Hero in the Age of Sail, and Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea, recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature.  He lives outside of Philadelphia.