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Title: The Federalist : A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States by James Madison, John Jay, Robert Scigliano, Alexander Hamilton ISBN: 0-679-60325-5 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Nice package, but might contain errors?
Comment: This hardcover version of The Federalist (papers) comes is a nice package so to speak. The end of the book contains both the Declartion of Indepenence and the Constitution. Unlike most other Federalist papers books which are written as paperbacks using cheap newsprint paper, this uses a higher quality and brighter paper. The nice part about this book, unlike alotof others is that it contains the dates for each paper... alot of reproductions don't have this.
After reading the book however, I became quite concerned
because I noticed immediately that the author (intentionally or unintentionally) changed many of the words in the The Federalist!! This annoys me to no end. It's extremely bad practice for purposes of history, to change words in historical documents, because those "translated" words might accidentally get passed to future generations without aknowledgement that that wasn't what the founding fathers actualy wrote. I noticed at least a dozen changed words... there are probably thousands of errors for all I know.. This is bad, bad, bad.
Heres an example from Federalist Paper #1: (pg. 3)
This book writes: "After a full experience of the insufficiency of the existing federal government, you are invited to deliberate upon a new Constitution for the United States of America..."
Every other book in existence writes: "AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America...."
Notice the subtle, yet immensely importance difference in words.
Now what gives this dumb author the right as a scholarly academian to change the words of our founding fathers. In fact, I don't even know which version is truly correct?? (I assume the majority rules, so this book comes out the loser.)
And these errors continue right through Federalist paper #1, and several others that I noticed... Maybe even all of them!
Also, the author has a nasty habit of decapitalising words which should be capitalized in historical conext. Our founding fathers, as was customary grammar at the time, capitalized many words in the middle of the sentance. I don't fully understand the details of antiquated English, however, when I buy a book on historical figures, I expect, nay, I demand, that the reproduction be produced in exactly the manner in which it was presented by our founding fathers. It can be difficult to understand antiquated English, especially some of the stuff written by James Madison, however, I'd rather do the mental translation myself.
It's a nice book, but I cannot in good conscience give this
anything above 2 stars. In fact, I think it deserves no stars.
NOTE: After researching the matter a little bit, it occurs to me that there are actually two common distinct "translations" and this book presents just one of them.... so I take back blaming the editor. I'm not sure of the origin of these modern translations... but it does seem that this version is much less popular than what is presented in other Federalist Paper repros.
I still claim that this version is error.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Wonderful Edition of American Political History
Comment: This is a very nice edition of the Federalist's Papers. An idea which was inaugurated by James Hamilton to help abate the opposition which was expected toward the newly written constitution.
This Modern Library edition has several features which sets it apart from other editions. First, the editor's introduction (by Robert Scigliano of Boston College) is quite informative and helpful for those who are just getting started in their study and research of American history. And yet it is detailed enough to be informative for those who have a stronger background in American Revolutionary history. Second, the appendices include The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the U.S. along with the amendments. Third, the book has a short but nice bibliography, as well as a nice and very useful index. All these features helped to set this particular edition apart from other editions that I have owned or read.
Of course, the Federalist writings are some of the key writings in American Revolutionary history. Every American should be required to read them since they were written with the intent of promoting the ratification of the constitution. These writings contain the ideas and development of the American system of government, the separation of powers, how congress is to be organized, and the positions of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government. This work provides its reader with the thoughts, inspirations, and brilliance behind the American Constitution and development of American government.
I highly recommend this edition of the Federalists.
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Title: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward As Science (Hpc Classics Series) by Immanuel Kant ISBN: 0915144255 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: March, 1977 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Immanuel Kant: Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (2nd Edition) by Lewis White Beck ISBN: 0023078251 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 05 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Hegel's Logic: Being Part One of the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Science by G. W. F. Hegel, John N. Findlay, William Wallace ISBN: 0198245122 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: June, 1975 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy by Edmund Husserl, Quentin Lauer ISBN: 0061311707 Publisher: Harpercollins (Short Disc) Pub. Date: February, 1965 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville, Richard D. Heffner ISBN: 0451528123 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 05 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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