Drawing on their correspondence, noted Madison biographer Ketcham (emeritus, history, Syracuse U.) provides an account of the period James Madison spent after his retirement in 1817 as the fourth pres
Restored to its original splendor, Montpelier is now a national shrine, but before Montpelier became a place of study and tribute, it was a home. Often kept from it by the business of the young nation
The best one volume biography of Madison’s life, Ketcham’s biography not only traces Madison’s career, it gives readers a sense of the man. As Madison said of his early years in Virginia under the stu
In this book, author Ralph Ketcham presents readers with a in-depth examinaton of the contemporary theory and practice of citizenship in the United States. Arguing that the contemporary state of citiz
Studies the kinds of political questions that concerned the founding generation in connection with, for example, human nature, justice, and the purpose of government approaching the debate over origin
Although the last half of the twentieth century has been called the Age of Democracy, the twenty-first has already demonstrated the fragility of its apparent triumph as the dominant form of government
The dissenting opinions of Patrick Henry and others who saw the Constitution as a threat to our hard-won rights and liberties. Edited and introduced by Ralph Ketcham.
