Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father, by Michael Signer
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Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father, by Michael Signer
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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.
Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father, by Michael Signer- Amazon Sales Rank: #109788 in Books
- Brand: Signer, Michael
- Published on: 2015-03-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.30" h x 1.30" w x 6.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 384 pages
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29 of 34 people found the following review helpful. Madison's "Method"... By VA Duck ...or so it might have been titled. Author Michael Signer has discovered a system of tactics, actions and attitudes that James Madison used to overcome the great confrontations of the Founding Period and often accomplish his desired goal. Signer distills the "Method" to be a recipe of nine tactics and repeats them for the reader before each of nine instances in the book where Madison changes, or attempts to change the course of history. The book is biographic - i.e. it follows Madison's life from birth through death, but the emphasis, and the real purpose of the book is to understand Madison's accomplishments, his method of confronting them and by extension his nature, brilliance and essential goodness. And the book may have succeeded except for three, or maybe four faults.1) The new here is the "Method" - the biography has been told (many times) before; if this is a first read of Madison expectations are low and impressions are high; read after, as example Ketcham's, James Madison: A Biography, expectations will be high and unfortunately impressions low. 2) The "method", while interesting in concept, is more allusion than actual demonstration. The author presents the nine-component "Method" before each fateful turn of history, but except for the broadest impressions, the reader is left to find for him or her self the evidence of the Method's application (and more often than not that is an impossible task using the evidence as presented). 3) There are enough historical inaccuracies to shake the reader's confidence - more by example later, 4) Last and perhaps applicable only to this reader, Signer himself becomes... well annoying! The book is full of: uncomfortably florid language, pretentious vocabulary and awkwardly cobbled mixed metaphors.The book tries to show-off with vocabulary - not the UNusual vocabulary cleverly used as Chernow does in Alexander Hamilton to evoke the language and feeling of the era, but awkwardly and occasionally even incorrectly to attempt exhibition: "vertiginous" for dizzying (pg. 82), "ineluctably" for irresistibly (pg. 113), "metier" for occupation (incorrectly used pg. 120), "leitmotif" for recurrent theme (pg. 140), "puissant" for influential (pg. 142), "fixity" for permanence (pg. 142), "epee" for a verbal jab or dig (pg. 205). The manner becomes distracting. Then there are the sophomoric mixed metaphors: "the weather mirrored their turgid mood" (swollen weather ? pg. 193); "instead of balance among its hinged parts, he saw a 'parious' (?) yaw" (balance~ weight: yaw~ attitude); (pg. 277) "There was a deep canyon between these two poles.", between these two hills, mounts?; (pg. 236) "Nearing the end of the symphonic outline, Madison charged towards the Constitution's summit." (symphonic summit? Maybe crescendo?) "...Virginia was turning restless and dyspeptic." (irritable through indigestion?) (pg. 237).There are errors in history in the book as well, enough to cause reader uncertainty of author veracity: "George Washington studied there", William & Mary College (pg. 33), in fact he received his surveyors license there - not quite the implication presented; "He [Madison] wanted, ...a federal republic through one legislative chamber that would give each state the same representation regardless of population. That would be the Senate" (pg. 190), exactly the OPPOSITE of Madison's wishes. He wanted BOTH houses of legislature to have representation weighted to their influence either by population or wealth and loosing that as part of the Great Compromise was a crushing defeat for him (see Res.2 of the "Virginia Plan"); "he joined the noxious compromise of counting slaves as 3/5 of a freeman" (pg. 206), left unsaid, however, is that Madison invented the 3/5 compromise four years earlier for the Confederation Congress of 1783. And, while there is some dispute at the academic level about the authorship allocation of the essays of the "Federalist", the total is 85 not 88 as erred (pg. 219): Hamilton attributed 51, Madison 26 not 29 and Jay 5 not 8. And impossibly, Hamilton boards a "single masted schooner" for a ride up the Hudson, "With his quill wavering in his hand and the waves rolling underneath..." (pg. 216).As a Madison biography, the book is a distinct 3-stars, "It's OK"; there are manny better (Ketcham above, or more recently Stewart's, Madison's Gift). The "Method", the centerpiece of the book lies flat by the end of the read, left as an allegation rather than demonstrated as fact. The rigor of research, or its subsequent editing in this book is inconsistent. The real virtue of this book is that it illustrates the great focus, civility and intellect of its subject - James Madison. And finally, Signer begins in very un-Madisonian style with needless digs (epees?) at a wing of contemporary politics - so conservative readers may avoid a mild irk by bypassing his introduction.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. James Madison in Context By Patrick Roberts Mike Signer's Becoming Madison shows how James Madison developed from a diminutive boy from Orange County, Virginia to become the father of the Constitution. This book manages to depict Madison in a new light, illuminating the event of his life before the presidency. The lively writing and focus on the transition from boyhood to adulthood should be of particular interests to students. At the same time, scholars will discover a new perspective on Madison's thought and context.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Smart and Illuminating By Amateur Historian As most Virginians did, I studied our Commonwealth's history extensively in fourth grade before touring several historical sites. The most we learned about James Madison was that his courageous wife Dolley saved many historic papers and paintings during the burning of the White House. This book provided a fresh insight to Madison's budding political career and gives me hope that we can have statesmen and women again focusing on elective office as a public service. As a teacher, I think this quick and interesting text should be required reading for every government student in Virginia--and beyond!
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