James Madison: The Founding Father
About this audiobook
This engaging and sympathetic biography reveals the prolific founding father who Thomas Jefferson described as “the greatest man in the world.” We see Madison the legislator, writer, Secretary of State, President, and elder statesman. Perhaps most importantly, we see a man who believed implicitly in the mutual dependence of democracy and individual freedom and whose life was guided by this philosophy. Accordingly, our constitutional guarantees of civil and religious liberty are in many ways his legacy.
About the author
Robert A. Rutland is research professor of American History at the University of Tulsa and the former editor-in-chief of The Papers of James Madison. Among his most important books are James Madison: The Founding Father; The Birth of the Bill of Rights; and Madison’s Alternatives and the Coming of War.
John MacDonald (1952–2008) was a director, producer, and founder of the Washington Stage Guild in Washington, DC. A graduate of Catholic University, MacDonald was a popular figure in the Mid-Atlantic theater scene. He made dozens of recordings for the Talking Book program at the Library of Congress before entering the commercial audiobook field.
