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Also by Richard Brookhiser:

James Madison, October 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
George Washington on Leadership, May 2008
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What Would the Founders Do?, May 2006
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JAMES MADISON
By: Richard Brookhiser

Basic Books
October 2011
On Sale: September 27, 2011
304 pages
ISBN: 0465019838
EAN: 9780465019830
Kindle: B005IZT0B2
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical | Non-Fiction

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. Madison helped to shape our country as perhaps no other Founder: collaborating on the Federalist Papers and the Bill of Rights, resisting government overreach by assembling one of the nation’s first political parties (the Republicans, who became today’s Democrats), and taking to the battlefield during the War of 1812, becoming the last president to lead troops in combat.

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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Daily Show with Jon Stewart - October 20, 2011