JAMES MADISON: COMMANDER IN CHIEF (627 pp.)Irving BrantBobbs-Merrill ($7.50).
The enemies of the fourth President of the U.S. called him "little Jemmy," or "his little majesty," or "withered little apple-John." Declared one editorial writer: "His heart is petrified and hard as marble. His body is torpid, and he is without feeling."
Even his greatest admirers would admit that James Madison was not an imposing figure of a man. Standing only 5 ft. 6 in., the slightly built Madison appeared to be even shorter, and his face wore a look of perpetual perplexity. The shy son of a well-to-do Virginia planter, Madison early...
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