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Jefferson & Madison: The Great Collaboration
Jefferson Madison The Great Collaboration Author:Adrienne Koch LONG STUDY of the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson convinced the author of the need for further research into the development of Jeffersons thought. And this became impossible without a systematic study of the friendship of Jefferson and Madison in working out a comprehensive ideology of democracy. — Here were two men who had been joined in an inti... more »mate and congenial partnership for a period of almost fifty years. Their philosophic principles and political pursuits could not be isolated from the larger setting of their friendly collaboration and it was thus that Jefferson and Madison developed. A study, then, in the history of ideas, the book explores more fully than before the political theory that Jefferson and Madison jointly professed, and indicates their characteristic differences as well as their basic agreement about political values. Their massive writings have often been consulted separately to throw light on one or the other man. Now the correspondence has been studied for the interplay of ideas between the two greatest philosopher statesmen of the American Enlightenment.« less