Wednesday, November 8, 2017

JAMES MADISON

Noah Feldman, The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President (New York: Random House 2017) (From the book jacket: "Over the course of his lifetime, James Madison changed the United States three times: First, he designed the Constitution, led the struggle for its adoption and ratification, then drafted the Bill of Rights. As an older, cannier politician he co-founded the original Republican party, setting the course of American political partisanship. Finally, having pioneered a foreign policy based on economic sanctions, he took the United States into a high-risk conflict, becoming the first wartime president, and despite the odds, winning.").