James Madison: A Biography

The best one volume biography of Madison’s life, Ketcham’s biography not only traces Madison’s career, it gives readers a sense of the man. As Madison said of his early years in Virginia under the study of Donald Robertson, who introduced him to thinkers like Montaigne and Montesquieu, "all that I have been in life I owe largely to that man." It also captures a side of Madison that is less rarely on display (including a portrait of the beautiful Dolley Madison).

• The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
• James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity
• American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
• John Adams
• AMERICAN LION: Andrew Jackson in the White House
• Washington: A Life
• John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
• John Quincy Adams
• Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America