"An excellent study covering the whole of Madison's thought and
framed by democratic yearnings for a communitarian
America."--Choice"Highly readable as well as deliberately
provocative and controversial."--Review of Politics"Essential,
provocative, splendidly written, disturbing, and intellectually
brilliant reading."--Perspectives on Political Science"This is an
interesting and well-written book worth of careful consideration by
students of political theory and American history."--American
Political Science Review"This learned, engaging, and stimulating
book has much to offer a wide range of readers."--Journal of
American History"Matthews has written a provocative work that takes
on much recent scholarship and has done it extremely
well."--Religious Studies Review
"Highly opinionated, iconoclastic, controversial, and immensely
imaginative. A provocative and deeply stimulating reading of
Madison that deserves to be part of the never-ending conversation
Americans have about the meaning of America."--Isaac Kramnick,
author of Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism: Political
Ideology in Late Eighteenth-Century England and
America"Outstanding. Certainly the most systematic, comprehensive,
and penetrating analysis of Madison's political thought, the volume
is engagingly written, tightly argued, and persuasive in its
interpretations."--Jack P. Greene, author of The Intellectual
Construction of America and editor of the Encyclopedia of American
Political History"A controversial and compelling case for Madison's
consistent liberalism. Deserves a prominent place on the bookshelf
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thought."--Michael Lienesch, author of New Order of the Ages"This
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and explication of the themes that make Madison consistent despite
his many changes of position over a long and varied public
career."--Forrest McDonald, author of Novus Ordo Seclorum: The
Intellectual Origins of the Constitution
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