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9780700608072

If Men Were Angels

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  • ISBN13:

    9780700608072

  • ISBN10:

    0700608079

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-09-01
  • Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

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"A devastating critique of Madison's political thought". -- Gordon S. Wood in The New York Review of Books. "If Matthews is right -- that Madison and Jefferson 'were, from an ideological perspective, worlds apart' -- then we must reassess just about everything we think we know about ideology and politics in the early republic". -- Journal of American History. "The most provocative recent book on Madison". -- New York Times Book Review.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: In Search of the "Great Little Madison"
James Madison: Constant Liberal Princep. 1
Madison's Worldview: Indolent Humanity, Malthusian Reality, and "the Economy of Nature"p. 26
Madisonian Humanity: The Timid Individual and Passionate Groupsp. 48
Civil Society: The Politics of Economics and Societyp. 83
Property: Rights and Possessions, Democracy and Despairp. 117
Madisonian Government: "The greatest of all reflections...?"p. 173
Jefferson's Madison: "Frigid Speculations" or "Generous Spasms of the Heart"p. 234
The Madisonian Dream: The Illusion of a Futurep. 273
Selected Bibliographyp. 281
Indexp. 293
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