The Three Lives of James Madison

• Author : Noah Feldman
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 31 October 2017

A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political “lives”—as a revolutionary thinker, partisan political strategist, and president “In order to understand America and its Constitution, it is necessary to understand James Madison.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci Over the course of his life, James Madison changed the United States three times: First, he designed the Constitution, led the struggle for its adoption and ratification,

• Author : Rodney K. Smith
• Publisher : Outskirts Press
• Release : 22 December 2019

Physically unimpressive, intellectually brilliant James Madison had been unlucky in love, heartbroken and betrayed not once but twice. Middle-aged and resigned to a life alone, he never dreamed that fate had something astonishing in store for him and for the country he loved: a young widow of exceptional intelligence and poise who was his equal in many ways and whose warmth and extroversion perfectly complemented his quiet, contemplative nature. She became Dolley Madison, the nation’s “first First Lady,” and

• Author : J. Michael Martinez
• Publisher : Lexington Books
• Release : 10 October 2019

Congressional Lions examines twelve trailblazing members of Congress throughout American history to understand their role in shaping the life of the nation. The book focuses on historical figures stretching from the founding of the nation into the twenty-first century.

• Author : Sarah Burns
• Publisher : University Press of Kansas
• Release : 15 November 2019

The Constitution of the United States divides war powers between the executive and legislative branches to guard against ill-advised or unnecessary military action. This division of powers compels both branches to hold each other accountable and work in tandem. And yet, since the Cold War, congressional ambition has waned on this front. Even when Congress does provide initial authorization for larger operations, they do not provide strict parameters or clear end dates. As a result, one president after another has

• Author : Robert Allen Rutland
• Publisher : University of Missouri Press
• Release : 25 March 1997

Available for the first time in paperback, James Madison: The Founding Father is a lively portrait of the man who essentially fathered our constitutional guarantees of civil and religious liberty. Focusing on the role Madison played at the Continental Congress and in each stage of the formation of the American Republic, Robert Allen Rutland also covers Madison's relationship with his beloved wife, Dolley, his fifty-year friendship with Thomas Jefferson, and his years as a respected elder statesman after serving as

• Author : Noah Shusterman
• Publisher : University of Virginia Press
• Release : 01 September 2020

Although much has changed in the United States since the eighteenth century, our framework for gun laws still largely relies on the Second Amendment and the patterns that emerged in the colonial era. America has long been a heavily armed, and racially divided, society, yet few citizens understand either why militias appealed to the founding fathers or the role that militias played in North American rebellions, in which they often functioned as repressive—and racist—domestic forces. In Armed Citizens,

• Author : Garrett Ward Sheldon
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 March 2023

"Sheldon interweaves Madison's intellectual development with his political career: the one the warp, the one the weft, of his mind... His greatest contribution is to emphasize John Witherspoon's Scottish Presbyterian influence during Madison's undergraduate days at Princeton." -- Times Literary Supplement

• Author : Ralph Ketcham
• Publisher : University of Virginia Press
• Release : 25 March 1990

"This bulky, solid and scholarly biography goes far to put Madison in his rightful place among the founding fathers of the United States. The author, as editor of the first three volumes of Madison's papers, has had an opportunity to live and breathe the Madison career, and the resulting study is a distinct contribution to our early national history." -- from page 4 of cover.

• Author : Gary Rosen
• Publisher : American Political Thought (Un
• Release : 25 March 1999

For students of the early American republic, James Madison has long been something of a riddle, the member of the founding generation whose actions and thought most stubbornly resist easy summary. The staunchest of Federalists in the 1780s, Madison would turn on his former allies shortly thereafter, renouncing their expansive nationalism as a threat to the Constitution and to popular government. In a study that combines penetrating textual analysis with deep historical awareness, Gary Rosen stakes out important new ground

• Author : Noah Feldman
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 03 August 2021

The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The Arab Winter, Noah Feldman argues that the Arab Spring was nevertheless not an unmitigated failure, much less an inevitable one. Rather, it was a noble, tragic series of events in which, for the first time in recent Middle Eastern history, Arabic-speaking peoples took free, collective

• Author : Stuart Eric Leibiger
• Publisher : University of Virginia Press
• Release : 25 March 1999

Together, Stuart Leibiger argues, Washington and Madison struggled to conceptualize a political framework that would respond to the majority without violating minority rights."--BOOK JACKET.

• Author : William Cabell Rives
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 March 1870

• Author : William Lee Miller
• Publisher : University of Virginia Press
• Release : 25 March 1992

Examines James Madison's influence on the founding of the nation and reveals how the former president's intense research into the ideals of Republicanism found lasting institutional expression in the Constitution.

• Author : Barbara Mitchell
• Publisher : LernerClassroom
• Release : 01 January 2004

Introduces the life of President James Madison, focusing on his life-long interest in books and study, as well as his role as "Father of the Constitution" and historian of the Constitutional Convention.

• Author : James Madison
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 March 1969