ISBN: 0465019838
Author: Richard Brookhiser
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books; 1 edition (September 27, 2011)
Pages: 304
Category: Leaders & Notable People
Subcategory: Biography
Rating: 4.5
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Richard Brookhiser’s James Madiso. s a welcome addition to the literature on Madison. His lively biography helps us understand Madison’s political brilliance and its lessons for toda. .
Richard Brookhiser’s James Madiso.is the rare author who grasps the complexities both of history and of contemporary politics.
Richard Brookhiser looks beyond Madison’s personal frailties in this biography. No one would ever have mistaken James Madison for George Washington. Short, scrawny and sickly, he suffered from a hypochondria that convinced him he would lead neither a long nor a healthy life. He was a miserable public speaker who tended to lapse into inaudible mumbling, and well into his career as a politician, he continued to shrink back in horror at the idea of going out on the stump and putting on an electioneering appearance.
James Madison, 304 pages (Basic Books: 2011).
Brookhiser both wrote and hosted the documentary films Rediscovering George Washington, by Michael Pack, broadcast on PBS on July 4, 2002, and Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton, also by Pack, broadcast on PBS on April 11, 2011. His book Alexander Hamilton, American led to the "Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America" exhibition at The New-York Historical Society (2004–2005), exhibition for which he was the historian curator. James Madison, 304 pages (Basic Books: 2011).
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Books: James Madison. Basic Books, 2011 ISBN 978-0465019830. For years, James Madison, the president, had fled high summer in Washington and other low-lying cities for the healthier air of his inland home in the Virginia Piedmont
Books: James Madison. James Madison is known as the Father of the ng and recording every session of the Constitutional Convention; leading the fight for ratification in his native Virginia; co-authoring the Federalist Papers, and shepherding the Bill of Rights through the First Congress. But he was also the Father of Politics. For years, James Madison, the president, had fled high summer in Washington and other low-lying cities for the healthier air of his inland home in the Virginia Piedmont. America had been at war with Britain for two years.
A vivid portrait of the Father of the Constitution. James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story–although all too often overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporaries–is integral to that of the nation
James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his storyalthough all too .
James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his storyalthough all too often overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporariesis integral to that of the nation.
Hachette UK, 27 сент. A vivid portrait of the "Father of the Constitution" James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story-although all too often overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporaries-is integral to that of the nation.
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In this penetrating biography, eminent historian Richard Brookhiser presents a vivid portrait of the Father of the Constitution,” an accomplished yet humble statesman who nourished Americans' fledgling liberty and vigorously defended the laws that have preserved it to this day.
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