Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, The Bill of Rights, and The Election that Saved a Nation by Chris DeRose
Intense political partisanship, crushing national debt, citizens losing their homes to foreclosure, and a nation in danger of separating at the seams.
Sounds like America in 2011, right?
But it’s not.
It’s America in 1789 when the fate of our young nation rested on the race between two future presidents for the congressional seat in Virginia’s 5th district.
In Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights, and the Election That Saved a Nation, author Chris DeRose reveals one of the most important yet untold stories in American history—the tale of the high-stakes political battle between two future presidents, James Madison and James Monroe.
Friends and political allies for most of their lives, Madison and Monroe found themselves on opposite sides of the battle over the Constitution and the fate of a fledgling nation in the extraordinary story of their 1789 congressional race.
