James Monroe/Bibliography
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- 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
Primary sources
- Monroe, James. The Political Writings of James Monroe. ed. by James P. Lucier, (2002). 863 pp.
- Writings of James Monroe, edited by Stanislaus Murray Hamilton, ed., 7 vols. (1898-1903) online edition at books.google.com