James Madison
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A concise overview of what Madison did. As another reader has noted, not so much insight (via personal documents) as to why. But this book definitely offered insight into the beginnings of the party system, early Constitutional challenges, and so on.
Very accessible biography of the political life of James Madison. I felt like I got a good sense of Madison's contributions to the Federalist papers (interesting to see the contrast with Chernow's Hamilton), his feelings on the Jefferson embargo, and of course, how the war of 1812 was handled.
