Colleen A. Sheehan

"Colleen Sheehan's Madison is driven by an overarching concern: What would it take for this American population to become - and remain - a self-governing people? More was at stake than survival and prosperity. For Madison, the new national community could flourish only if the people had good show more reasons for respecting themselves. Sheehan's engaging account of America's beginnings enlarges our understanding of the hopes and fears, successes and failures, not only of a notable man but of a generation of founders." -Ralph Lerner, University of Chicago Colleen A. Sheehan is Professor of Political Science at Villanova University and has served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. show less