Summary
This is the first full-length biography, in over a decade, of James Madison, our fourth President and icon of the conservative movement. In it, the author, a historian looks beyond Madison's traditional moniker, "The Father of the Constitution", to find a more complex and realistic portrait of this... Full description
- From subject to citizen, 1751-76
- Winning the Revolution, 1776-87
- The Philadelphia Convention, 1787
- Ratifying the Constitution, part one: The Federalist, 1787-88
- Ratifying the Constitution, part two: The Richmond Convention, 1788
- Inaugurating the Constitution, 1788-1800
- Secretary of State, then President, 1800-17
- An active retirement, 1817-36.