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 James Madison 1866 –1952 - United States

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The Papers of James Madison (3 vols. 1840) selected and edited by Madison and includes Notes on the Federal Convention of 1787

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Biography

Adair, Douglass, ed. “James Madison’s Autobiography.” William and Mary Quarterly 2 (1945): 191-209.

Banning, Lance. The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.

Bauer, John R. “James Madison and the Revision of Republicanism in Post-Revolutionary America.” Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University, 1984.

Brant, Irving. The Fourth President: The Life of James Madison. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.

—-. James Madison. 6 vols. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1948-61.

—-. James Madison and American Nationalism. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1968.

—-. “James Madison and His Times.” American Historical Review 57 (1952): 853-70.

—-. James Madison: Secretary of State, 1801-1809. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953.

Burns, Edward McNall. James Madison, Philosopher of the Constitution. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1938.

Dewey, Donald O. James Madison Helps Clio Interpret the Constitution. American Journal of Legal History 15 (1971): 38-55.

—-. “Madison’s Views on Electoral Reform [1823].” Western Political Quarterly 15 (1962): 140-5.

—-. “The Sage of Montpelier: James Madison’s Constitutional and Political Thought, 1817-1836.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1961.

Ford, Lacy K., Jr. “Inventing the Concurrent Majority: Madison, Calhoun, and the Problem of Majoritarianism in American Political Thought.” Journal of Southern History 60 (February 1994): 19-58.

Hunt, Gaillard. The Life of James Madison. New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1902.

—-, ed. The Writings of James Madison. 9 Vols. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1900-1910.

Ketcham, Ralph. James Madison: A Biography. New York: Macmillan, 1971.

—-. “James Madison: The Unimperial President.” Virginia Quarterly Review 54 (Winter 1978): 116-36.

Koch, Adrienne. Madison’s “Advice to My Country”. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966.

Leibiger, Stuart. “James Madison and Amendments to the Constitution, 1787-1789: ‘Parchment Barriers.’” Journal of Southern History 59 (August 1993): 441-68.

Madison, James. The Papers of James Madison. 16 Vols. Edited by William T. Hutchinson, William M.E. Rachal, and Robert Allen Rutland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962-1976; Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977.

McCoy, Drew R. The Last of the Fathers: Jame Madison and the Republican Legacy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Mead, Sidney E. “Neither Church nor State: Reflections on James Madison’s ’Line of Separation.’” Journal of Church and State 10 (Autumn 1968): 349-63.

Miller, William B. “The Weather Log of James Madison.” Journal of Presbyterian History 40 (December 1962): 121-209.

Padover, Saul Kussiel, ed. The Complete Madison: His Basic Writings. New York: Harper, 1953.

Rakove, Jack N. James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic. Library of American Biography. Edited by Oscar Handlin. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown, 1990.

Riemer, Neal. “The Republicanism of James Madison.” Political Science Quarterly 69 (1954): 45-64.

Rives, William Cabell. History of the Life and Times of James Madison. 3 Vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1859-1868.

Rutland, Robert Allen. James Madison and the American Nation, 1751-1836: An Encyclopedia. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

—-. The Presidency of James Madison. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990.

Schultz, Harold Seessel. James Madison. New York: Twayne, 1970.

Singleton, Marvin K. “Colonial Virginia as First Amendment Matrix: Henry, Madison, and Assessment Establishment.” Journal of Church and State 8 (Autumn 1966): 344-64.

Smith, Abbot E. James Madison: Builder. New York: Wilson-Erickson, 1937.

Smith, Carlton B. James Madison, 1751-1836: A Biographical Sketch. Harrisonburg, Va.: James Madison University, [198-].

Smith, Joseph Burkholder. The Plot to Steal Florida: James Madison’s Phony War. New York: Arbor House, 1983.

Stagg, John Charles Anderson. Mr. Madison’s War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783-1830. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Wills, Garry. James Madison. New York: Times Books, 2002.

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