Loser submissive omega take: Washington was a unifying, noble, non-partisan leader to his very last breath.
Chad sigma male take: Like most people, Washington did not live up to his ideals and by the end of his life was a disgruntled, visibly Federalist peepaw shaking his cane in the air because he didn't like the state of the country or the Democratic Republicans people running it. Joanne Freeman did this great impression of late-life Washington clenching his fist going "We gotta get Federalists into the Virginian legislature" and it's canon in my book. The man learned that James Madison was backing James Monroe for Governor of Virginia a literal day before his death and got so pissed that his secretary Tobias Lear went "pls chill".
He requested me to read to him the debates of the Virginia Assembly on the election of a Senator and a Governor; and on hearing Mr Madison’s observations respecting Mr Monroe, he appeared much affected and spoke with some degree of asperity on the subject; which I endeavoured to moderate, as I always did on such occasions.
the "as I always did on such occasions" makes me think that this wasn't a one-time thing and washington frequently went on rants about monroe and the jeffersonians.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
•Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•George Washington: A Life by Willard Sterne Randall (BOOK)
JOHN ADAMS
•John Adams by David McCullough (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•John Adams: Party of One by James Grant (BOOK)
THOMAS JEFFERSON
•Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn Brodie (BOOK)
JAMES MADISON
•The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President by Noah Feldman (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•James Madison: A Life Reconsidered by Lynne Cheney (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•James Madison: A Biography by Ralph Ketcham (BOOK | AUDIO)
JAMES MONROE
•James Monroe: A Life by Tim McGrath (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness by Harlow Giles Unger (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity by Harry Ammon (BOOK)
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
•John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life by Paul C. Nagel (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics by William J. Cooper (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams by Phyllis Lee Levin (BOOK | KINDLE)
ANDREW JACKSON
•American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H.W. Brands (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•Andrew Jackson, Volume I: The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 by Robert V. Remini (BOOK)
•Andrew Jackson, Volume II: The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832 by Robert V. Remini (BOOK | KINDLE)
•Andrew Jackson, Volume III: The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 by Robert V. Remini (BOOK)
MARTIN VAN BUREN
•Martin Van Buren and the American Political System by Donald B. Cole (BOOK | KINDLE)
•Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics by Joel H. Silbey (BOOK)
•Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics by John Niven (BOOK)
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
•A Child of the Revolution: William Henry Harrison and His World, 1773-1798 by Hendrik Booraem V (BOOK | KINDLE)
•Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy by Robert M. Owens (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
•The Carnival Campaign: How the Rollicking 1840 Campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" Changed Presidential Elections Forever by Ronald G. Shafer (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
virginia man forced to hang out with a new yorker and a french marquis because he had crazy beef with his own neighbors.
blocked madison, jefferson. spent his retirement writing angry notes in the margins of monroe's view of the conduct of the executive. good old virginia!
In loving memory of the time when Monroe tried to apologise to Eliza to make himself feel better before he died and she was like: “yeah, no I don’t think so.”
Or in the old English:
Mr. Monroe,” she told him, “if you have come to tell me that you repent, that you are sorry, very sorry, for the misrepresentations and the slanders and the stories you circulated against my dear husband, if you have come to say this, I understand it. But otherwise, no lapse of time, no nearness to the grave, makes any difference.”