The Last Founding Father by Harlow Giles Unger

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2011. Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution. American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution. Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation. The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and A Nation's Call to Greatness.

America's Second Revolution: How George Washington Defeated Patrick Henry and Saved the Nation. The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life. The French War Against America: How a Trusted Ally Betrayed Washington and the Founding Fathers. John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot. Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot. An avid skier and horseman, he had secondary homes in Chamonix, France, and Jackson Hole, WY. Unger is a former Distinguished Visiting Fellow in American History at Mount Vernon (2008), and as of 2020 he had written twenty-seven books, including ten biographies of America's founding fathers as well as a biography of statesman Henry Clay. To his work in newspaper and magazine journalism, he added writing for radio and academics, becoming an on-air commentator in New York for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and an adjunct associate professor of English and journalism at two New York-area colleges.

Unger was a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune Overseas News Service in Paris, and later worked as a free-lance news and features writer for newspapers and magazines in Britain, Canada, and other countries. He graduated from Yale University, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1953, and he earned a master's degree from California State University. He was educated at the Taft School, graduating in 1949. Harlow Giles Unger ( / ˈ ʌ ŋ ɡ ər/ born August 3, 1931) is an American author and historian as well as a journalist, broadcaster, and educator, He is the author of many books, including the three-volume Encyclopedia of American Education.

The Last Founding Father by Harlow Giles Unger