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The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy

The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy

Hardcover

Biographies General19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0521364078
ISBN13: 9780521364072
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 31 1989
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.68
Height: 1.23 Width: 6.41 Depth: 9.52
Language: English
James Madison survived longer than any other member of the most remarkable generation of political leaders in American history. Born in the middle of the eighteenth century as a subject of King George II, the Father of the United States Constitution lived until 1836, when he died a citizen of Andrew Jackson's republic. For over forty years he played a pivotal role in the creation and defense of a new political order. He lived long enough to see even that Revolutionary world transformed, and the system of government he had nurtured threatened by the disruptive forces of a new era that would ultimately lead to civil war. In recounting the experience of Madison and several of his legatees who witnessed the violent test of whether his republic could endure, McCoy dramatizes the actual working out in human lives of critical cultural and political issues.

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