{"id":9461,"date":"2022-10-30T23:41:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T04:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9461"},"modified":"2022-10-30T23:41:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T04:41:25","slug":"americas-first-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9461","title":{"rendered":"AMERICA&#8217;S FIRST POLITICIAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Madison: America&#039;s First Politician\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B08YYF57D8\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>MADISON REALLY IS AMERICA\u2019S FIRST POLITICIAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a remarkable biography. It is lucid, well-written, and gives a very balanced portrait of Madison.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost conveys several of Madison\u2019s mistakes, yet the author does a terrific job of showcasing Madison\u2019s genius, not just in brain power which he had plenty, but in our fourth president\u2019s ability to compromise in generally wise ways.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some find Madison a typical flip-flopper, but Jay Cost convincingly demonstrates that this is a misread of Madison.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A wonderful read that will elevate your understanding of the early Republic. You will also learn<\/strong> <strong>much about key players, especially Hamilton.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON REALLY IS AMERICA\u2019S FIRST POLITICIAN This is a remarkable biography. It is lucid, well-written, and gives a very balanced portrait of Madison. Cost conveys several of Madison\u2019s mistakes, yet the author does a terrific job of showcasing Madison\u2019s genius, not just in brain power which he had plenty, but in our fourth president\u2019s ability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-book-review","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9462,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461\/revisions\/9462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}