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Michael "Mike" Signer is a Virginia-based author and attorney. == Authorship == Signer is the author of Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father (PublicAffairs 2015), a book about leadership and statesmanship that is also an intellectual and psychological biography of young James Madison and his rivalry with his nemesis Patrick Henry in the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. The book has received enthusiastic reviews in a number of venues, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Biography Adds to Madison's Reputation )〕 ("This is intellectual history at its finest… “Becoming Madison” is an essential biography of an essential Founder”), The Wall Street Journal 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Indispensable Founding Father )〕 (“Sound and revealing”), Library Journal 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Becoming Madison )〕 ("an important study of the intellectual and psychological development of a young Madison who believed that leaders should forsake self-interest in promoting the common good"), and The Daily Beast 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Finally James Madison Mania )〕 ("A bull's-eye"). He has also discussed the book on MSNBC,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Presidential Lessons from a Founding Father )〕 and C-SPAN BookTV.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Book Discussion of Becoming Madison )〕 In 2014, Signer was the keynote speaker at the Montpelier Foundation's annual celebration of the birthday of James Madison,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Michael Signer Delivers Keynote Address at Madison's Birthday - Montpelier )〕 where he said, "Returning Madison’s Method to politics could do much to conquer not only many bad ideas, but to help us believe again in leadership itself.... We think of statesmen today as dead and dull, as stony and lifeless as the columns and edifices of our Greco-Roman memorials. Yet what Madison shows is they are flesh and blood fighters. Even if it’s old-fashioned, we need to return to that spirit once again—to honor and celebrate and elevate leaders—statesmen—who fight with their heart and spirit for the common good.":〔 Signer wrote Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies: Michael Signer: 9780230606241: Amazon.com: Books )〕 a book on democracy, American history, and national security. In Foreign Affairs, Professor John Ikenberry wrote that Demagogue "echoes Tocqueville's contention that liberal mores and traditions within society are the bedrock of democracy." Kirkus Reviews praised the book's "muscular narrative," and Publisher's Weekly wrote that the book "signals the need for a new direction in foreign policy." 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nonfiction Book Review: Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies by Michael Signer, Author . Palgrave MacMillan $26.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-230-60624-1 )〕 Anne-Marie Slaughter, currently the President of the (New America Foundation ), said, "Michael Signer has written a strikingly original book. Demagogue tells the story of democracy by analyzing its antithesis – the often frighteningly charismatic leader who draws his strength from his purported connection to the demos itself. Amid the myriad studies of democracy and waves of democratization, of rising incomes, civil society, institutions and elections, Signer brings the human element back into the equation. The demagogue, he argues, is an eternal element in democracy's rise and fall, one that we ignore today, from Venezuela to Russia, at our peril." Author and journalist Peter Beinart said, "Demagogue is a simply extraordinary book. A fascinating work of political theory, an eloquent response to the Bush administration's disastrous efforts at promoting democracy, a roadmap for progressives seeking to chart a new foreign policy direction and an intellectual lifeline for anyone who believes America should be on freedom's side, and knows, in their heart, that there must be a better way." In connection with the book, he addressed the U.S. Agency for International Development, George Mason University, the (BBC's Doha Debates ) in Qatar, and the (World Affairs Council of Richmond ).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Madison Law & Strategy - Michael Signer )〕 He has been interviewed on NPR, MSNBC, the BBC, (C-SPAN's Book TV ), and Fox News.〔 Signer has published articles, essays, and book reviews in the (University of Richmond Law Review ), (Corporate Counsel ), the Washington Post,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=‘Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit’ by Dane Huckelbridge )〕 the New Republic, and the Daily Beast,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Why The Tea Party Won’t Go Away And More Wisdom From Matt Kibbe )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How to Beat the Demagogues )〕 In 2006, he wrote an influential article on progressive American exceptionalism titled "City on a Hill,"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Michael Signer for Democracy Journal: A City on a Hill )〕 in the inaugural issue of (Democracy: A Journal of Ideas ). He teaches nonfiction writing at (Politics and Prose ) in Washington, D.C.〔http://politics-prose.com/classes/nonfiction-journey-idea-page〕 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「Michael Signer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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