Loading...
Welcome
Sign up
Login
Browse Books
Deals
VIP
0
Loading...
Play Sample
James Madison: America's First Politician
Written by:
Jay Cost
Narrated by:
Dan Woren
Unabridged Audiobook
Play Free
Add to Cart - $31.99
Remove from Cart
Give as a gift
Ratings
Book
1
Narrator
Release Date
November 2021
Duration
14 hours 43 minutes
Summary
An intellectual biography of James Madison, arguing that he invented American politics as we know it
How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal government. He wrote about the dangers of political parties in the Federalist Papers and then helped to found the Republican Party just a few years later. This so-called Madison problem has occupied scholars for ages.
As Jay Cost shows in this incisive new biography, the underlying logic of Madison’s seemingly mixed record comes into focus only when we understand him primarily as a working politician. Whereas other founders split their time between politics and other vocations, Madison dedicated himself singularly to the work of politics and ultimately developed it into a distinctly American idiom. He was, in short, the first American politician.
Browse By Category
Biography & Memoir
>
Law & Politics
History
>
The Americas
Non-Fiction
>
Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
1 book added to cart
James Madison: America's First Po...
Jay Cost
Subtotal
$31.99
View Cart
Continue Browsing
~~title~~
~~carousel-body~~
Back
Next
~~book-title~~
By: ~~author-single-string~~
~~tag-text~~
© Copyright 2011 - 2024 Storytel Audiobooks USA LLC. All Rights Reserved.