Commentary

• Madison on Sympathy, Virtue, and Ambition in the ‘Federalist Papers’

  - Sorenson, Leonard R. “Madison on Sympathy, Virtue, and Ambition in the ‘Federalist Papers’.” Polity 27, no. 3 (April 1, 1995): 431–446.

• The Noblest Minds

  - McNamara, Peter. The Noblest Minds: Fame, Honor, and the American Founding. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.
  Ever since Douglass Adair convincingly demonstrated that a love of fame was central to the American founding, political scientists and historians have started to view the founders and their acts in a new light. In The Noblest Minds, ten distinguished scholars… More