While I do not agree with some of Unger's undermining of non-Monroe founding fathers, especially with regard to Madison's term after the British sacking of Washington City, overall this is a good book. I really know much about Monroe, and this book solved that shortcoming. Unger is no economist...
Virginia was preparing for war when Henry rode home from the First Continental Congress in September 1774. “Every county is now arming a company of men whom they call an independent company,” Royal Governor Lord Dunmore wrote to the secretary of state for the colonies on Christmas Eve. In fact, a...
In America, their names were Washington, Greene, Hancock . . . and . . . . . . Lafayette—Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette. Lafayette was the New World’s first—and the Old World’s last—great and gallant knight of old, sprung from Arthurian romances, in quest of honor and glory, atop his gre...
Brethren! Countrymen! That worst of plagues, the detestable tea is now arrived. . . . The hour of destruction or manly opposition to the machinations of tyranny stare you in the face.”1 It was Monday morning at nine, November 29, 1773, when the first church bell tolled, then a second, and another...