Author: noahfeldman

This “illuminating and absorbing” biography (The New York Times Book Review) tells the story of one of America’s complicated Founding Fathers, James Madison — a man who designed the Constitution, co-founded the Republican party, and shaped the nation in ways that still reverberate today.

**This program is read by the author An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer** Abraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and rededication of the United States to achieving liberty and justice for all. He led the nation into a bloody civil war to uphold the system of government established by the US Constitution—a system he regarded as the “last best hope of mankind.” But how did Lincoln understand the Constitution? In this groundbreaking study, Noah Feldman argues that Lincoln deliberately and recurrently violated the United States’ founding arrangements. When he came to power,…