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Canada and the United States

Stuart Leibiger. Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 1999. Pp. x, 284. $35.00.

James Madison was nineteen years younger than George Washington, and though a crucial figure in the founding of the republic, he by no means matched the unique standing, at the time and ever since, of the victorious general of the American Revolution and the first president of the United States. Yet, for a period of six or seven years between 1785 and 1791, theirs was the most important friendship and public colleagueship in fashioning and bringing into existence the new government under the Constitution, an association sometimes overlooked in the more open and eventually partisan affiliations of Washington and Alexander Hamilton on the one hand and Madison and Thomas Jefferson on the other. It is this crucial collaboration that Stuart Leibiger spells out in detail and gives its own focus in a way that has not previously been done. He much overestimates, though, the originality of his theme. At least since Irving Brant entitled a chapter on their close collaboration in 1789 ("Washington's Right-Hand Man," in James Madison: Father of the Constitution, 1787–1800 [1950]), the close and effective cooperation of Washington and Madison during the important formative years has been a staple of historical scholarship. . . .

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