A review by jsimms435
James Madison: America's First Politician by Jay Cost

4.0

This book had an incredible amount of information and I felt like I learned a lot about what Madison did politically. It seemed to at times get bogged down in details and was at times quite dry reading. I don't really feel like it did a very good job of personalizing Madison or even making him likeable. I think the author did a great job acknowledging and explaining some of the seemingly contradictory decisions that Madison made and acknowledged that Madison really did nothing in his power to end slavery. It is a great irony that he worked hard for equality between north and southern states, big and small states, the poor and the powerful, but then did nothing about slavery.