An essential addition to the scholarship on the New Republic."-Library Journal, "Banning's treatment of James Madison is original and brilliant. Morgan, The New Republic, "Well researched and eloquently rendered. will read The Federalist or plot the trajectory of his career in quite the same way again. no jargon or academic obfuscation, and the attentive reader should have no trouble following the argument."-Evan Cornog, New York Times Book Review, "No one who has followed Banning's account of Madison's development. The Sacred Fire of Liberty is a challenging book, bristling with ideas and filled with fine shades of emphasis and meaning. An essential addition to the scholarship on the New Republic."-Library Journal, "Brilliant and original. The Sacred Fire of Liberty will remain the authority on Madison for years to come."-Rob Edmonds, McCormick Messenger, "This is quite possibly the best political biography of Madison you will every see, and a wonderful analysis of Madison as both framer and one of the authors of The Federalist."-Byte, "This is quite possibly the best political biography of Madison you will every see, and a wonderful analysis of Madison as both framer and one of the authors of The Federalist."-Byte, "Well researched and eloquently rendered. His book is a landmark to the scholarship of the American republic and to an essential Founder. no jargon or academic obfuscation, and the attentive reader should have no trouble following the argument."-Evan Cornog, New York Times Book Review, "Banning's treatment of James Madison is original and brilliant.
Morgan, The New Republic, "Brilliant and original. It is safe to say that any future study of Madison will begin with this insightful and well-argued reinterpretation."-Virginia Quarterly Review, "No one who has followed Banning's account of Madison's development.
This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves."The Sacred Fire of Liberty is a work of tremendous erudition an intellectual biography of James Madison that changes and enriches our understanding of the man, his thought, and the part he played in the Founding. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This created the new doctrine of liberalism, which preached liberty without politics, in deference to “enlightened” rulers and their judicial employees. After Robespierre, European friends of liberty despaired of republican institutions, seeking their “liberties” instead from emperors and kings. The idea of liberty and the republican model of government grew up together in Rome, and were still firmly linked two thousand years later at George Washington’s inauguration, when he endorsed the “sacred” experiment of the American people. This violated the ancient distinction between liberty and license, reflecting deep changes in European attitudes, following the violent excesses and ultimate failure of (ostensibly) republican government in France. Liberty for many came to mean little more than a greater ability to do what one wants. But the strain of revolution pulled liberty away from its sources in republican government. These triumphs guided many other states, until the strength of liberty became the measure of political legitimacy throughout the world. The sacred fire of liberty framed the ideology that formed the revolutions of England, France and the United States of America.
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