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　　A WATERSHED ACCOUNT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL FRIENDSHIP

IN AMERICAN HISTORY

In Madison and Jefferson, esteemed historians Andrew Burstein and

Nancy Isenberg join forces to reveal the crucial partnership of two

extraordinary founders, creating a superb dual biography that is a

thrilling and unprecedented account of early America.

The third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper

and noble gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson’s genius overshadowing

James Madison’s judgment and common sense. But in this revelatory

book, both leaders are seen as men of their times, ruthless and

hardboiled operatives in a gritty world of primal politics where

they struggled for supremacy for more than fifty years.

In most histories, the elder figure, Jefferson, looms larger. Yet

Madison is privileged in this book’s title because, as Burstein and

Isenberg reveal, he was the senior partner at key moments in the

formation of the two-party system. It was Madison who did the most

to initiate George Washington’s presidency while Jefferson was in

France in the role of diplomat. So often described as shy, the

Madison of this account is quite assertive. Yet he regularly

escapes bad press, while Jefferson’s daring pen earns him a nearly

constant barrage of partisan attacks.

In Madison and Jefferson we see the two as privileged young men

in a land marked by tribal identities rather than a united national

personality. They were raised to always ask first: “How will this

play in Virginia?” Burstein and Isenberg powerfully capture

Madison’s secret canny role—he acted in effect as a campaign

manager—in Jefferson’s career. In riveting detail, the authors

chart the courses of two very different presidencies: Jefferson’s

driven by force of personality, Madison’s sustained by a militancy

that history has been reluctant to ascribe to him.

The aggressive expansionism of the presidents has long been

underplayed, but it’s noteworthy that even after the Louisiana

Purchase more than doubled U.S. territory, the pair contrived to

purchase Cuba and, for years, looked for ways to conquer Canada. In

these and other issues, what they said in private and wrote

anonymously was often more influential than what they signed their

names to.

Supported by a wealth of original sources—newspapers, letters,

diaries, pamphlets—Madison and Jefferson is a stunning new look at

a remarkable duo who arguably did more than all the others in their

generation to set the course of American political development. It

untangles a rich legacy, explaining how history made Jefferson into

a national icon, leaving Madison a relative unknown. It tells nasty

truths about the conduct of politics when America was young and

reintroduces us to colorful personalities, once famous and now

obscure, who influenced and were influenced by the two

revolutionary actors around whom this story turns. As an intense

narrative of high-stakes competition, Madison and Jefferson exposes

the beating heart of a rowdy republic in its first fifty years,

while giving more than a few clues as to why we are a politically

divided nation today.

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