James Madison: A Biography
- ISBN-10
- 0813912652
- ISBN-13
- 9780813912653
- Series
- James Madison
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 753
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Authors
- Ralph Ketcham, Ralph Louis Ketcham
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." It also captures a side of Madison that is less rarely on display (including a portrait of the beautiful Dolley Madison).
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