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Fire and Ashes - Success and Failure in Politics (Hardcover)
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Fire and Ashes - Success and Failure in Politics (Hardcover)
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In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor
at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back
home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal
Party and poised--should the governing Conservatives falter--to
become Canada's next Prime Minister. It never happened. Today,
after a bruising electoral defeat, Ignatieff is back where he
started, writing and teaching what he learned. What did he take
away from this crash course in political success and failure? Did a
life of thinking about politics prepare him for the real thing? How
did he handle it when his own history as a longtime expatriate
became a major political issue? Are cynics right to despair about
democratic politics? Are idealists right to hope? Ignatieff blends
reflection and analysis to portray today's democratic politics as
ruthless, unpredictable, unforgiving, and hyper-adversarial. Rough
as it is, Ignatieff argues, democratic politics is a crucible for
compromise, and many of the apparent vices of political life, from
inconsistency to the fake smile, follow from the necessity of
bridging differences in a pluralist society. A compelling account
of modern politics as it really is, the book is also a celebration
of the political life in all its wild, exuberant variety.
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