The Mind of James Madison

This book provides a compelling and incisive portrait of James Madison the scholar and political philosopher. Through extensive historical research and analysis of Madison''s heretofore underappreciated 1791 Notes on Government Madison''s scholarly contributions are cast in a new light yielding a richer more comprehensive understanding of his political thought than ever before. Tracing Madison''s intellectual investigations of republics and philosophers both ancient and modern this book invites the reader to understand the pioneering ideas of the greatest American scholar of politics and republicanism and in the process to discover anew the vast possibilities and potential of that great experiment in self-government known as the American republic.