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Matt Bai is national political columnist for Yahoo! News. Prior to that, he was the chief political correspondent for the New York Times Magazine, where he covered both the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns. Bai often explores issues of generational change in American politics and society. His seminal cover stories in the magazine include the 2008 cover essay “Is Obama the End of Black Politics?” and a 2004 profile of John Kerry titled “Kerry’s Undeclared War.” His work was honored in both the 2005 and 2006 editions of The Best American Political Writing. Bai is a graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University in Medford, MA. In 2014, Bai appeared as himself in the second season of TV show ''House of Cards''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2014-09-07 )〕 == Career == He began his career as a speechwriter for the U.S. Committee for UNICEF, writing for Audrey Hepburn, among others, and his international coverage includes reporting from Liberia and Iraq. Before joining the ''Times Magazine'', Bai was city desk reporter for the ''Boston Globe'' and a national correspondent for ''Newsweek'' magazine. In 2002, he left ''Newsweek'' to become the national affairs columnist at ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, but the arrangement soon unraveled. On his website, Bai writes that this “disastrous little stint” involved “no articles and a lot of weirdness, but I'm contractually prohibited from talking about that.”〔(About page ) at MattBai.com〕 In 2001, Bai was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he led a seminar on the next generation of political journalism. Bai's book, ''The Argument: Inside the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics'', is an account of the “new progressive movement” in America and the people who built it. ''The Argument'' was the only political book to be named a ''New York Times'' Notable Book for 2007. Other work by Bai for the ''New York Times Magazine'' has included cover stories on John McCain’s philosophy about war and Barack Obama’s strategy to win over white men, as well as a much-discussed cover essay, “Is Obama the End of Black Politics?”. During the 2008 primaries, Bai wrote an online blog, ''The Primary Argument'', on ''The New York Times'' website. Bai’s work was featured in both the 2005 and 2006 editions of ''The Best American Political Writing'' (Thunder’s Mouth Press). He also wrote a (personal essay ) about his Japanese American in-laws for the anthology ''I Married My Mother-in-Law: And Other Tales of In-Laws We Can’t Live With—and Can’t Live Without'' (Riverhead Books, 2006). In a 2007 interview with the Progressive Book Club, Bai said his political work is more influenced by novelists writing about urban decline in America than by other political writers. “I think novelists have done a better job on the whole of describing the confusing moment we’re in, in this post-industrial era,” he said. “Writers like Philip Roth, Richard Russo (especially ''Empire Falls'' and ''Nobody’s Fool'' and ''The Risk Pool''), Richard Ford (especially ''The Sportswriter'')—they’ve really tapped into a deep confusion." 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「Matt Bai」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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