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MONROE, JAMES. A View of the Conduct of the Executive, in the Foreign Affairs of the United States,Connected with the Mission to the French Republic. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf, worn at extremities, rebacked with original spine label laid down; dampstaining in lower left corner throughout, half-title blank corner mended, ink and pencil library numbers on verso of title page; signatures of early owners on flyleaf and title page. Philadelphia, 1797
first edition. The future president's defense of his controversial conduct as U.S. Minister to France. As the U.S. veered toward war with France, Monroe wrote "Our national honor is in the dust . . . our government and people branded as cowards, incapable of being provoked to resist, and ready to receive again those chains we had taught others to burst" (lxvi). Evans 32491; Howes M727; Larned 1661; Sabin 50020.
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