Papers of James Madison
Papers of James Madison

Friendship between Madison and Jefferson

For those interested in the friendship between Madison and Thomas Jefferson, we suggest the following:cover of Broadwater, Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution

  • Lance Banning, Jefferson and Madison: Three Conversations from the Founding (New York, 1995)
  • Jeff Broadwater, Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution (Chapel Hill, 2019)
  • Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Madison and Jefferson (New York, 2013)
  • James Morton Smith, ed., Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Jefferson and Madison, 1776-1826 (3 vols.; New York, 1995)
  • Louis P. Masur, A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship (New York, 2025).

Madison's fifty-year friendship with Thomas Jefferson is also the subject of Adrienne Koch's Jefferson and Madison: The Great Collaboration (New York, 1950).