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David M. Axelrod (born February 22, 1955) is an American political operative and analyst, best known as the Chief Strategist for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns. After Obama's election, Axelrod was appointed as Senior Advisor to the President. Axelrod left the White House position in early 2011 and became the Senior Strategist for Obama's successful re-election campaign in 2012. He currently serves as the director of the non-partisan Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago and is a Senior Political Commentator for CNN. A former political writer for the ''Chicago Tribune'', Axelrod is the author of the ''New York Times'' bestselling memoir, "Believer, My Forty Years in Politics," which was released in 2015. ==Early life== Axelrod was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, and grew up in its Stuyvesant Town area. His mother Myril Bennett (née Davidson), was a journalist at ''PM,'' a left-wing 1940s newspaper, and later an advertising executive at Young and Rubicam. His father was Joseph Axelrod, a psychologist and avid baseball fan.〔 His family was Jewish. He attended Public School 40 in Manhattan. Axelrod's parents separated when he was eight years old. Axelrod traces his political involvement back to his childhood. Describing the appeal of politics, he told the ''Los Angeles Times'', "I got into politics because I believe in idealism. Just to be a part of this effort that seems to be rekindling the kind of idealism that I knew when I was a kid, it's a great thing to do. So I find myself getting very emotional about it."〔 〕 At thirteen years, he was selling campaign buttons for Robert F. Kennedy. After graduating from New York's Stuyvesant High School〔 in 1972, Axelrod attended the University of Chicago, where he majored in Political Science. As an undergraduate, Axelrod wrote for the ''Hyde Park Herald'', covering politics, and earned an internship at the ''Chicago Tribune''. He lost his father to suicide in 1977, around the time of his graduation.〔 While at the University of Chicago he met his future wife, business student Susan Landau, and they married in 1979. In June 1981, their first child, a daughter, was diagnosed with epilepsy at seven months of age. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Axelrod」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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