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| The Federalist
ISBN: 9780819570956
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Wesleyan University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Constitutional law; Constitutional history;
This edition from a noted historian "is the first definitive, variorum edition of the text of this much reprinted classic" ( The William and Mary Quarterly ).
The definitive edition of the historic essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, fully annotated and reproduced from the original text. Also included are a new introduction by historian Jacob C. Cooke, along with notes, a glossary, as well as the complete Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, and U.S. constitution.
"A high-quality, scholarly edition." - Library Journal
"Everyone who is interested in either the principles or the practice of government―in the age of the Fathers or in our own era of perplexity―should read it." ―Dumas Malone, History Book Club Review
JACOB E. COOKE, author and editor of many books on U.S. history, received a B.A.from the University of North Carolina and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. fro Columbia University. His honors and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for Humanities fellowship. He has taught at Columbia, Carnegie-Mellon, and Columbia University, and is now professor of history at Lafayette College. His home is in Easton, Pennsylvania. |
