BEST BOOKS

on James Madison





4th U.S. President

JAMES MADISON, 1809 to 1817


Writings about the President and His Administration

Banning, Lance,

The sacred fire of liberty : James Madison and the founding of the federal republic

Cornell University Press, 1995. x, 543 p. : E 0342.00B2451995


Brant, Irving,

James Madison.

Bobbs-Merrill [1941-61] 6 v. E 0342.00B7


Brant, Irving,

The fourth President; a life of James Madison.

Bobbs-Merrill [1970] 681 p. E 0342.00B72


Hunt, Gaillard,

The life of James Madison,

Doubleday, Page & Co., 1902. 402 p. E 0342.00H943


Ketcham, Ralph Louis,

James Madison; a biography,

Macmillan [1971] xiv, 753 p. E 0342.00K461971


Madison, James,

The mind of the founder : sources of the political thought of James Madison

Published for Brandeis University Press by University lvi, 449 p. ; E 0302.00M1921981


Madison, James,

The writings of James Madison, comprising his public papers and his private correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900-10. 9 v. E 0302.00M22


Matthews, Richard K.,

If men were angels : James Madison and the heartless empire of reason

University Press of Kansas, c1995. xviii, 297 p. ; JC0211.00M35.M381995


McCoy, Drew R.

The last of the fathers : James Madison and the Republican legacy

Cambridge University Press, 1989. xvii, 386 p. : E 0342.00M331989


Miller, William Lee.

The business of May next : James Madison and the founding

University Press of Virginia, 1992. xii, 296 p. ; E 0342.00M551992


Rakove, Jack N.,

James madison and the creation of the American republic

PearsonLongman, c2007. p. cm. E 0342.00R352007


Rives, William C.

History of the life and times of James Madison.

Little, Brown and company, 1859-68. 3 v. E 0342.00R62


Rutland, Robert Allen,

James Madison : the founding father

Macmillan ; c1987. xi, 287 p., [8] p. of plates : E 0342.00R881987


Rutland, Robert Allen,

James Madison and the search for nationhood

Library of Congress : xvii, 174 p. : E 0342.00R871981


Rutland, Robert Allen,

The presidency of James Madison

University Press of Kansas, c1990. xiii, 233 p. ; E 0341.00R871990


Schultz, Harold Seessel,

James Madison,

Twayne Publishers [c1970] 2, 241 p. E 0342.00S38


Works by the President: General, Published Papers


Madison, James,

The papers of James Madison : presidential series

University Press of Virginia, 1984-<2004> v. <1-5> ; E 0302.00M191984


Madison, James,

The papers of James Madison.

University Press of Virginia, 1986-<2005> v. <1-7> ; E 0302.00M191986


Selected Writings


Madison, James,

Notes of debates in the Federal Convention of 1787

Norton, 1987. xxiii, 695 p. ; KF4510.00U541987


Cooke, Jacob E., ed.

The Federalist.

Wesleyan University Press [1961] xxx, 672 p. JK1541.961b


Jefferson, Thomas,

The republic of letters : the correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826

Norton, 1995. 3 v. : E 0332.88.M331995


Madison, James,

James Madison, a biography in his own words.

Newsweek; distributed by Harper & Row [1974] 416 p. E 0342.00A341974b


Madison, James,

The complete Madison : his basic writings

Harper, c1953. ix, 361 p. : E 0302.00M17


Prescott, Arthur Taylor,

Drafting the Federal Constitution; a rearrangement of Madison's notes giving consecutive developments of provisions in the Constitution of the United States, supplemented by documents pertaining to the Philadelphia convention and to ratification processes

Greenwood Press, 1968 [c1941] xix, 838 p. JK0146.00P71968