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Paperback:
9780807841792 | Reprint edition (Univ of North Carolina Pr, March 1, 1987), cover price $42.00
Hardcover:
9780631157731 | Blackwell Pub, November 1, 1987, cover price $60.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of individualism, analyzes the political implications of America's fascination with individualism, and suggets new approachs to leadership, citizenship, and decision making
Product Description: 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...read more
Hardcover:
9780945707332 | Reprint edition (Amer Political Biography Pr, March 1, 2003), cover price $37.50 | About this edition: 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.
Paperback:
9780813912653 | Reprint edition (Univ of Virginia Pr, April 1, 1990), cover price $25.00
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Hardcover:
9780899305042 | Praeger Pub Text, May 1, 1990, cover price $84.00
Product Description: In Marbury v. Madison Chief Justice John Marshall defined the Constitution as "a superior, paramount law," one that superseded the laws passed by Congress and state legislatures. What makes it paramount? This book sets out to recover the enduring principles, purposes, and meanings that inform the founders' charter and continue to offer us political guidance more than 200 years later...read more
Hardcover:
9780700605910 | Univ Pr of Kansas, May 1, 1993, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In Marbury v.
Paperback:
9780451528841 | Reprint edition (Signet Classic, May 1, 2003), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Gathers the dissenting opinions of Patrick Henry and John DeWitt concerning the U.
9780451625250 | Reissue edition (Mentor Books, July 1, 1996), cover price $7.99 | also contains Gratitude Journal for Women: Gratitude Journal to Write in to Release Anxiety | About this edition: Gathers the dissenting opinions of Patrick Henry and John DeWitt concerning the U.
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9781417635306, titled "Anti-federalist Papers And the Constitutional Convention Debates" | Turtleback Books, May 1, 2003, cover price $18.40
Product Description: The writings collected here reflect the Madison who emerges from the best scholarship of the last thirty years--scholarship to which Ralph Ketcham, as editor of The Papers of James Madison and in many other ways, has made stunning contributions...read more
Hardcover:
9780872206960 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, September 30, 2006, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The writings collected here reflect the Madison who emerges from the best scholarship of the last thirty years--scholarship to which Ralph Ketcham, as editor of The Papers of James Madison and in many other ways, has made stunning contributions.
Paperback:
9780872206953 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, September 30, 2006, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The writings collected here reflect the Madison who emerges from the best scholarship of the last thirty years--scholarship to which Ralph Ketcham, as editor of The Papers of James Madison and in many other ways, has made stunning contributions.
Restored to its original splendor, Montpelier is now a national shrine, but before Montpelier became a place of study and tribute, it was a home. Often kept from it by the business of the young nation, James and Dolley Madison could finally take up permanent residence when they retired from Washington in 1817. Their lifelong friend Thomas Jefferson predicted that, at Montpelier, the retiring Madison could return to his "books and farm, to tranquility, and independence," that he would be released "from incessant labors, corroding anxieties, active enemies, and interested friends."As the celebrated historian Ralph Ketcham shows, this would turn out to be only partly true. Although the Madisons were no longer in Washington, Dolley continued to take part in its social scene from afar, dominating it just as she had during Jeffersonâs and her husbandâs administrations, commenting on people and events there and advising the multitude of young people who thought of her as the creator of society life in the young republic. James maintained a steady correspondence about public questions ranging from Native American affairs, slavery, and utopian reform to religion and education. He also took an active role at the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-30, in the defeat of nullification, and in the establishment of the University of Virginia, of which he was the rector for eight years after Jeffersonâs death. Exploring Madisonâs role in these post-presidential issues reveals a man of extraordinary intellectual vitality and helps us to better understand Madisonâs political thought. His friendships with figures such as Jefferson, James Monroe, and the Marquis de Lafayette--as well as his assessment of them (he outlived them all)--shed valuable light on the nature of the republic they had all helped found.In their last years, James and Dolley Madison personified the republican institutions and culture of the new nation--James as the father of the Constitution and its chief propounder for nearly half a century, and Dolley as the creator of the role of "First Lady." Anything but uneventful, the retirement period at Montpelier should be seen as a crucial element in our understanding of this remarkable couple.
Hardcover:
9780813928111 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 15, 2009, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Restored to its original splendor, Montpelier is now a national shrine, but before Montpelier became a place of study and tribute, it was a home.
Paperback:
9780813931043, titled "Madisons at Montpelier: Reflections on the Founding Couple" | Reprint edition (Univ of Virginia Pr, February 21, 2011), cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9781412856720 | Transaction Pub, August 25, 2015, cover price $49.95
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