JAMES MADISON: COMMANDER IN CHIEF (627 pp.)—Irving Brant—Bobbs-Merrill ($7.50). The enemies of the fourth President of the U.S. called him “little Jemmy,” or “his little majesty,” or ...
James Madison ... As president, Madison helped establish the Democratic-Republican Party of Jeffersonian ideals. He asked Congress to declare war on Britain in 1812, and the war began so badly ...