James Madison: America's First Politician - Audiobook by Jay Cost

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506133 to listen full audiobooks. Publisher's Summary: An intellectual biography of James Madison, arguing that he invented American politics as we know it  How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal government. He wrote about the dangers of political parties in the Federalist Papers and then helped to found the Republican Party just a few years later. This so-called Madison problem has occupied scholars for ages.  As Jay Cost shows in this incisive new biography, the underlying logic of Madison’s seemingly mixed record comes into focus only when we understand him primarily as a working politician. Whereas other founders split their time between politics and other vocations, Madison dedicated himself singularly to the work of politics and ultimately developed it into a distinctly American idiom. He was, in short, the first American politician. Title: James Madison: America's First Politician Author: Jay Cost Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics