James Madison University - Index

James Madison University - Liberty & Learning - Index

liberty. We hope this book provides a better understanding of the man who was
rightfully known as the Father of the United States Constitution.
endnotes
1 See “The Radical Mind of Thomas Jefferson,” Time, July 5, 2004, and “The Amazing Adventures
of Benjamin Franklin,” Time, July 7, 2003. U.S. News & World Report also did a cover story in 2001 on
Joseph Ellis’ book, Founding Brothers.
2 Machiko Kakutani, “Rediscovering John Adams, the Founder Time Forgot,” Books of the Times,
New York Times, May 22, 2001. http://www.nytimes.com (Accessed July 23, 2008)
3 James Bishop Peabody, ed., John Adams, A Biography in His Own Words (New York: Newsweek,
1977), 18.
4 The use of the word “literature” is intentional since historians are now writing in narrative and engag-
ing prose.
5 James Morton Smith, ed., The Republic of Letters: the Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and
James Madison 1776-1826 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1995), 648.
6 Monroe and Madison bore no resemblance to each other. Monroe was six feet tall and seven years
younger than the five-feet-four James Madison. Apparently the book’s publishers were made aware of
this egregious error and quickly rushed into print a replacement edition. Another glaring error that was
corrected by republication was the assertion that the Constitutional Convention (1787) was portrayed in
“the delightful musical 1776.”
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