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Article: Golly, Madison.(The Arts; Books)(Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America)(Book review)
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- March 17, 2008
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Byline: Jon Meacham
Faith, the Founding Fathers and the unlikely rise of religious freedom.
James Madison has long had an image problem among popular historians--or, more bluntly, he has hardly had any image at all. Washington and Mount Vernon, Jefferson and Monticello, Franklin and Philadelphia: each is securely lodged in the imagination of serious and semiserious fans of American history. Madison and Montpelier, however, are another story. The fourth president is less celebrated than his wife, Dolley, who courageously saved the Lansdowne portrait of Washington when the British burned the White House, and has been compelled to settle for cameos in the ...
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