In a time when America is desperately searching for leadership comes this inspiring story of James Madison's coming of age; providing incisive and original insight into the Founding Father who did the most but is known the least. Michael Signer takes a fresh look at the life of our fourth president. His focus is on Madison before he turned thirty-six; the years in which he did his most enduring work: battling with Patrick Henry—the most charismatic politician in revolutionary America; whose political philosophy and ruthless tactics eerily foreshadowed those of today's Tea Party—over religious freedom; introducing his framework for a strong central government; becoming the intellectual godfather of the Constitution; and providing a crucial role at Virginia's convention to ratify the Constitution in 1788; when the nation's future hung in the balance. Signer's young James Madison is a role model for the leaders so badly needed today: a man who overcame daunting personal issues (including crippling anxiety attacks) to battle an entrenched and vicious status quo. Michael Signer's brilliant analysis of “Madison's Method;†the means by which Madison systematically destroyed dangerous ideas and left in their stead an enduring and positive vision for the United States; is wholly original and uniquely relevant today.
#476227 in Books Bloomsbury Press 2011-05-17 2011-05-10Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 .32 x .3 x 5.50l; .67 #File Name: 1608194051320 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This gives a wonderful explanation of our species and how it beganBy Michael G HunterThis gives a wonderful explanation of our species and how it began. I was very impressed by the writing that the needle was one of the main differences between Cro Magnon and Neanderthal; also speech and language.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. interesting analysis of the interplay of environment and developmentBy CustomerThe study was interesting and broadening. I love to be able to think about the human past and our common striving to find meaning. It seems to me that the basic thrust of this book--that the times we find ourselves living in has an overwhelming influence on how we develop; both individually and as a society. We do not develop in a vacuum and have wide but still somewhat limited control on what we allow to influence us.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Abraham LincolnGood read; I always wondered what life must have been like back in the days of the Little Ice Age and how people managed to get along. How did people go from learning how to use fire and to paint on cave walls in France to learning how to make a rocking chair. That is a wonder that probably could be explained by some smart nerd of a professor who tells you he knows everything about early people but; in fact; he was never there and knows only what he thinks he knows.
