History: Review of New Books, June 22nd, 2002
New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc. 185 pp., $20.00, ISBN 0-8050-6905-4 Publication Date: April 2002
In his eight-page introduction, Garry Wills, the prolific and prize-winning author, dissects James Madison's failures as president, emphasizing his committeeman temperament, his provincialism, his naivete, his idealism, and lack of real political life experience. A clever, secretive legislator does not make an effective executive. The analysis, however accurate, casts a shadow over an otherwise charming small book that could have shown more sympathy for Madison's great achievements.
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