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For younger readers

Clinton, Susan. James Madison. Children's Press, 1986. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Gaines, Ann. James Madison: Our Fourth President. Child's World, 2002. For readers in grades 3 to 5.

Madison, James

Banning, Lance. The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic. Cornell University Press, 1995, 1998. An examination of the mind of the most notable democratic theorist and president.

Fritz, Jean. The Great Little Madison. Putnam, 1989, 1998. A biography of America's fourth president. For middle-school readers.

Jefferson, Thomas, and James Madison. Ed. James Morton Smith. The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826. Norton, 1995. Revealing correspondence between two great political theorists.

Matthews, Richard K. If Men Were Angels: James Madison and the Heartless Empire of Reason. University Press of Kansas, 1994. A controversial but acclaimed re-interpretation of Madison's life and legacy.

Rakove, Jack N., and Oscar Handlin, ed. James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic. 2nd ed. Longman, 2001. An account of Madison's life and contribution to American democratic values.

Rutland, Robert A., ed. James Madison and the American Nation, 1751-1836: An Encyclopedia. Simon & Schuster, 1994. A portrait of the noted statesman.

Rutland, Robert Allen. The Presidency of James Madison. University Press of Kansas, 1990.

Wills, Garry. James Madison. Holt, 2002. A concise biography of a president who had more success as a legislator.