[PDF.31pv] If Men Were Angels: James Madison and the Heartless Empire of Reason (American Political Thought) (American Political Thought (University Press of Kansas))

If Men Were Angels: James Madison and the Heartless Empire of Reason (American Political Thought) (American Political Thought (University Press of Kansas))

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 | #1926219 in Books |  University Press of Kansas |  1995-01-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.01 x.95 x6.09l,1.07 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||30 of 50 people found the following review helpful.| An exceedingly poor, revisionist work of pseudohistory|By Integrity Reviews|Only a professor writing for a university press could get a book this poor published. Matthews views are on the most extreme fringes of revisionist interpretations of American history, and may be summarized as follows: Thomas Jefferson was idealistic and good, James Madison was materialistic and ba| |"Highly opinionated, iconoclastic, controversial, and immensely imaginative. A provocative and deeply stimulating reading of Madison that deserves to be part of the never-ending conversation Americans have about the meaning of America."—Isaac Kramnick

"What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

The ever wary James Madison viewed his fellow citizens as anything but angelic. In this radically new interpretation, Richard Matthews portrays a much less optimistic (and yet more liberal) Madison than we've seen before. Neither civic humanist nor democrat, this Madison is a distrusting, calculating, and pragmatic Machiavellian Pr...

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