Jack Rakove
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
In this remarkable book, the historian Jack Rakove shows how the private lives of these men were suddenly transformed into public careers--how Washington became a strategist, Franklin a pioneering cultural diplomat, Madison a sophisticated constitutional thinker, and Hamilton a brilliant policymaker. Rakove shakes off accepted notions of these men as godlike visionaries, focusing instead on the evolution of their ideas and the crystallizing of their...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
An interpretation of the origins of the American Constitution, examining the politics and major problems the founding fathers needed to consider when developing a national government, and discussing how to go about interpreting the original meaning of the historic document.
4) Writings
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Presents 197 essays, addresses, speeches, private memoranda, and letters written by American founding father James Madison between 1772 and 1836, including documents that highlight his role in the creation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and writings from his term as president.