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.
His most recent publications are Presidents above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 and Individualism and Public Life: An American Dilemma..
About the Author Ralph Ketcham is Professor of American Studies, Political Science, and Public Affairs, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
As Madison said of his early years in Virginia under the study of Donald Robertson, who introduced him to thinkers like Montaigne and Montesquieu, "all that I have been in life I owe largely to that man." It also captures a side of Madison that is less rarely on display (including a portrait of the beautiful Dolley Madison).
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
