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  • EDITION:
    1st Edition
  • ISBN:
    0813912652
  • ISBN-13:
    9780813912653
  • PUB. DATE:
    May 1990
  • PUBLISHER:
    University of Virginia Press

James Madison: A Biography / Edition 1 by Ralph Ketcham

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Great textbook, way to expensive...by Anonymous

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I found this textbook to be very useful but too expensive.. You shouldn't pay for textbooks, I downloaded all my textbooks this semester FREE at LibraryPirate. com

A fine scholarly workby Anonymous

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This book is a tour de force as an intellectual history of Madison's republican ideology and how the "nation builder" remained loyal to his bedrock beliefs even as world events placed enormous strains on the man and the politician. Ketcham's detailed look at the formation of Madison's ideology is unparalled in its scope and completeness. The author also provides a first rate and even-handed analysis...

LOOKING OVER THE SHOULDER OF JAMES MADISONby Anonymous

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THIS IS SUCH A WELL WRITTEN LOOK AT JAMES MADISON THAT YOU FEEL YOU ARE ACTUALLY WITH HIM, FEELING HIS FRUSTRATIONS, JOYS, AND VICTORIES. HIS PERSONALITY COMES ALIVE AND YOU SEE HIS STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES AND HIS GREAT RESOLVE. THIS IS A BOOK EVERYONE WHO IS INTERESTED IN OUR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD READ.


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James Madison

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  • Pub. Date: May 1990
  • Publisher: University of Virginia Press
  • Sales Rank: 258,315

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The best one volume biography of Madison's life, Ketcham's biography not only traces Madison's career, it gives readers a sense of the man. As Madison said of his early years in Virginia under the study of Donald Robertson, who introduced him to thinkers like Montaigne and Montesquieu, "all that I have been in life I owe largely to that man." It also captures a side of Madison that is less rarely on display (including a portrait of the beautiful Dolley Madison).

North Carolina Historical Review

Ketcham's long-standing familiarity with Madison's life and times is evident in this accessible work...Ketcham has written an enjoyable and scholarly narrative that will no doubt be considered of great value to Montpelier's more serious visitors, as well as students, scholars, and general readers with an interest in the founding couple.

— Kellie Strickland, North Carolina State University

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Biography

Ralph Ketcham is Professor of American Studies, Political Science, and Public Affairs, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs,
Syracuse University. His most recent publications are Presidents above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 and Individualism and Public Life: An American Dilemma.