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James Madison: A Life Reconsidered (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,479 ratings — published 2014
Madison and Jefferson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as james-madison)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,101 ratings — published 2010
The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as james-madison)
avg rating 4.19 — 667 ratings — published 2015
James Madison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as james-madison)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,686 ratings — published 2002
James Madison: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as james-madison)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,469 ratings — published 1971
The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as james-madison)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,145 ratings — published 2017
James Madison: Secretary of State: 1800-1809 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as james-madison)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 1953
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as james-madison)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,252 ratings — published 1788
Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as james-madison)
avg rating 4.07 — 664 ratings — published 2015
James Madison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as james-madison)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,583 ratings — published 2011
James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by (shelved 3 times as james-madison)
avg rating 3.67 — 383 ratings — published 2006
James Madison: America's First Politician (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-madison)
avg rating 4.05 — 519 ratings — published 2021
The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-madison)
avg rating 4.05 — 540 ratings — published 2020
James Madison: Commander in Chief, 1812-1836 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-madison)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 1961
James Madison: The President, 1809-1812 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-madison)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 1956
James Madison: Father of the Constitution: 1787-1800 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-madison)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 1950
James Madison: The Virginia Revolutionist, 1751-1780 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-madison)
avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published 1941
James Madison The Nationalist 1780-1787 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-madison)
avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published 1948
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-madison)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,820 ratings — published 2015
Young Patriots: The Remarkable Story Of Two Men, Their Impossible Plan, and the Revolution That Created the Constitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-madison)
avg rating 3.73 — 224 ratings — published 2005
The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-madison)
avg rating 3.90 — 49 ratings — published 1995
Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, The Bill of Rights, and The Election that Saved a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-madison)
avg rating 3.94 — 611 ratings — published 2011
Mr. and Mrs. Madison's War: America's First Couple and the War of 1812 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-madison)
avg rating 3.75 — 146 ratings — published 2012
The Presidency of James Madison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as james-madison)
avg rating 3.85 — 26 ratings — published 1990
James Madison: The Founding Father (Volume 1)
by (shelved 2 times as james-madison)
avg rating 3.28 — 148 ratings — published 1987
Jefferson & Madison: Three Conversations from the Founding (The Merrill Jensen Lectures in Constitutional Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as james-madison)
avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published 1995
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,655 ratings — published 2021
Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It (Bloomsbury, 2)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 4.23 — 517 ratings — published 2015
Abigail Adams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,794 ratings — published 2009
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 3.95 — 47,732 ratings — published 2000
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,491 ratings — published 2012
America’s First Wartime Election: James Madison, DeWitt Clinton, and the War of 1812 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2024
The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 3.69 — 194 ratings — published 2022
Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,453 ratings — published 2008
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,875 ratings — published 2017
Founding Mothers (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.64 — 9,053 ratings — published 2004
The Heir Apparent Presidency (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published
The Madisons: America's First Power Couple (The True Story of James & Dolley Madison) (Historical Biographies of Famous People)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 3.59 — 95 ratings — published
The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 3.76 — 71 ratings — published 1989
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 3.74 — 697 ratings — published 2006
Journal of the Federal Convention: Volumes 1 & 2 (Fully Illustrated)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 4.34 — 56 ratings — published 2003
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 4.22 — 201,748 ratings — published 2004
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,608 ratings — published 2019
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,090 ratings — published 1997
Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote the Federalist, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 3.90 — 128 ratings — published 2008
When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 3.95 — 303 ratings — published 2013
A Picture Book of Dolley and James Madison (Library Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 3.75 — 57 ratings — published 2009
So You Want to Be President? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,596 ratings — published 2000
George Washington (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,190 ratings — published 2004
Dolley Madison Saves George Washington (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as james-madison)
avg rating 3.88 — 142 ratings — published 2007
“Unlike Confucius, Madison maintained that people have a limited capacity to control their passions themselves and act virtuously when their individual interests conflict with others.”
― Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order
― Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order
“...the founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who had thus far been elected {George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson}, not a one had professed a belief in Christianity...
When the war was over and the victory over our enemies won, and the blessings and happiness of liberty and peace were secured, the Constitution was framed and God was neglected. He was not merely forgotten. He was absolutely voted out of the Constitution. The proceedings, as published by Thompson, the secretary, and the history of the day, show that the question was gravely debated whether God should be in the Constitution or not, and after a solemn debate he was deliberately voted out of it.... There is not only in the theory of our government no recognition of God's laws and sovereignty, but its practical operation, its administration, has been conformable to its theory. Those who have been called to administer the government have not been men making any public profession of Christianity... Washington was a man of valor and wisdom. He was esteemed by the whole world as a great and good man; but he was not a professing Christian...
[Sermon by Reverend Bill Wilson (Episcopal) in October 1831, as published in the Albany Daily Advertiser the same month it was made]”
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When the war was over and the victory over our enemies won, and the blessings and happiness of liberty and peace were secured, the Constitution was framed and God was neglected. He was not merely forgotten. He was absolutely voted out of the Constitution. The proceedings, as published by Thompson, the secretary, and the history of the day, show that the question was gravely debated whether God should be in the Constitution or not, and after a solemn debate he was deliberately voted out of it.... There is not only in the theory of our government no recognition of God's laws and sovereignty, but its practical operation, its administration, has been conformable to its theory. Those who have been called to administer the government have not been men making any public profession of Christianity... Washington was a man of valor and wisdom. He was esteemed by the whole world as a great and good man; but he was not a professing Christian...
[Sermon by Reverend Bill Wilson (Episcopal) in October 1831, as published in the Albany Daily Advertiser the same month it was made]”
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