A Politician Thinking: The Creative Mind of James Madison

by Jack N. Rakove

Book Overview

James Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787-1788 to secure ratification of the U.S. Constitution. As Jack N. Rakove shows in A Politician Thinking, however, those essays do not illustrate the full complexity and vigor of Madison's thinking. In this book, Rakove pushes beyond what Madison thought to examine how he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806157372
• ISBN13: 9780806157375
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.6"