James Monroe/Bibliography


 * Ammon, Harry. James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity. (1971, 2nd ed. 1990). 706 pp.  standard scholarly biography excerpt and text search
 * Ammon, Harry. "James Monroe" in Henry F. Graff ed., The Presidents: A Reference History (1997)
 * Bemis, Samuel Flagg. John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy (1949), the standard history of Monroe's foreign policy.
 * Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. The Presidency of James Monroe. 1996. 246 pp.  standard scholarly survey
 * Elkins, Stanley M. and Eric McKitrick. The Age of Federalism (1995). most advanced analysis of the politics of the 1790s. online edition
 * Finkelman, Paul. Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, 1754–1829 ed. by (2005), 1600 pp.
 * Gilman, Daniel Coit. James Monroe (1911) 312 pages; old barely adequate biography. online edition
 * Hart, Gary. James Monroe (2005) superficial, short, popular biography
 * Morgan, George. The Life of James Monroe (1921) 484 pages; old and barely adequate biography. online edition
 * Perkins, Bradford. Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812-1823 (1964)
 * Perkins, Dexter. The Monroe Doctrine, 1823-1826 (1927)
 * Peterson, Merrill D. Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography (1975) online edition
 * Renehan Edward J., Jr. The Monroe Doctrine: The Cornerstone of American Foreign Policy (2007)
 * Scherr, Arthur. "James Monroe and John Adams: An Unlikely 'Friendship'". The Historian 67#3 (2005) pp 405+. online edition
 * Skeen, Carl Edward. 1816: America Rising (1993) popular history
 * White, Leonard D. The Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History, 1801-1829 (1951), explains the operation and organization of federal administration