Madison's Hand Sculpture Waltz into Darkness is a

Waltz into Darkness is a classic "femme fatale" narrative that shows "the father of the modern suspense story" (LA Times) at the top of his unsettling craft

An exciting way to travel through space with a map of the solar system and everything kids want to know about their universe

including the coincident rise of mass consumption and the legitimation of wage labor

including the girl he can't forget

weaving together nature writing with an exploration of grief

Madison's Hand Sculpture Waltz into Darkness is aWinner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the James Bradford Best Biography Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Finalist, Literary Award for Nonfiction, Library of Virginia Finalist, George Washington Prize James Madison's Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention have acquired nearly unquestioned authority as the description of the U. S. Constitution's creation. No document provides a more complete record of the deliberations