Jack N. Rakove is William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and author of James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.
No one knows more about James Madison than Jack Rakove, and in this
lucid and beautifully written book, he explores not only Madison's
political and constitutional theories but, more important, the way
in which this creative politician and founder went about
formulating those theories. A remarkable achievement."" - Gordon S.
Wood, author of Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic,
1789-1815
""In A Politician Thinking, Jack N. Rakove explores the 'life
force' of politics that 'swirled' through the people's passions,
ideas, interests, and concerns and operated in James Madison's view
as both a potentially dangerous, disruptive force and a civic
lodestar that must guide the prudential politics of the republican
statesman. Rakove delivers yet another fine scholarly treatment of
Madison with a fresh, innovative approach."" - Colleen A. Sheehan
The Mind of James Madison: The Legacy of Classical
Republicanism
""Jack Rakove brilliantly and persuasively recasts James Madison as
a thinking politician rather than an abstract political thinker. An
enjoyable must-read for Madison fans and Federalist aficionados
alike."" - Mary Sarah Bilder, author of Madison's Hand: Revising
the Constitutional Convention
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