Jay Sexton is author of The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America. He is director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri and president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
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1912 painting by Clyde O. DeLand titled “Birth of the Monroe Doctrine.” From left to right: John Quincy Adams, William Harris Crawford, William Wirt, President James Monroe, John Caldwell Calhoun, Daniel D. Tompkins, and John McLean.
