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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.

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  • Title Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father
  • Author Michael Signer
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition F First Edition
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs, New York
  • Publication date 2015-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781610392952 / 1610392957
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 16.51 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1800-1850
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Presidents - United States, United States - Politics and government -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014038885
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Choice, 09/01/2015, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/2015, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 02/15/2015, Page 115

About the author

The Hon. Michael Signer, mayor of Charlottesville from 2016-2018, is the author of Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies and Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father.

A public scholar, practicing attorney, and executive, Dr. Signer has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Time, and has been interviewed by Meet the Press, Face the Nation, and NPR. He has been profiled by the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN, and has received awards from such organizations as the Anti-Defamation League and the Matthew Shepard Foundation.

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