Noah Feldman
American legal scholar, author, and Harvard Law School professor specializing in constitutional law, law and religion, and Middle East politics; served as a constitutional advisor in postwar Iraq and writes widely for the public.
Books
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1. The Three Lives Of James Madison
Genius, Partisan, President
A sweeping portrait of James Madison that follows his evolution from revolutionary political thinker and architect of the Constitution, to inventive party strategist in the fierce battles of the 1790s, to wartime president navigating the crises of 1812. It illuminates his shifting views on federal power and executive authority, his alliance and rivalry with contemporaries like Hamilton and Jefferson, and his enduring struggle to reconcile republican ideals with the realities of partisanship, governance, and slavery.
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2. The Arab Winter
A Tragedy
A clear-eyed account of the aftermath of the Arab Spring that argues the region slid into a harsher, more chaotic phase marked by failed transitions, resurgent authoritarianism, sectarian conflict, and the rise of violent nonstate actors; the book explains how well-intentioned hopes for rapid democratization were undermined by weak institutions, competing domestic forces, and missteps by external powers, and it urges a more realistic, pragmatic approach to supporting stability and reform while acknowledging the long, uneven struggle required for genuine political change.
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