The "Memoirs" of John Quincy Adams (1874-1877), and his "Writings," (1913-), are full of fire and information, and W.C.Ford, in his "John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine," in the "American Historical Review," vol.VII, pp.

676-696, and vol.VIII, pp.

28-52, enables us to sit at the council table while that fundamental policy was being evolved.

The most interesting work of this kind for the later period is "The Life and Letters of John Hay," by W.R.Thayer, 2 vols.

(1915).
Treatments of American diplomacy as a whole are few.