New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 706, [2] pages. DJ has some wear, tears, chips and soiling and is price clipped and in a plastic sleeve. Illustrations. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Professor Harry Ammon attended Georgetown University and received his doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1948. Harry came to Carbondale in 1950 to teach in Southern Illinois University's History Department where he was influential in the department securing a Ph.D. program. He served as departmental chair from 1977 until 1983 and retired in 1984. He was a very stylish writer. His majestic book on President James Monroe was first published by the University Press of Virginia in 1971. Although Harry had an encyclopedic knowledge of the early years of the United States, and a vast view of the sweep of history, he wore his scholarship lightly. He received Fulbrights to Austria and Korea. A biography of James Monroe who became the fifth president of the United States in 1816. Ammon recreates his remarkable career, through his service in the revolutionary army, the Confederation Congress, to his exertions in James Madison's cabinet and his subsequent presidency. More