Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics

In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter...
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Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics by Ignatieff, Michael

Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics

$569.73

Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics

$569.73
Author: Michael Ignatieff
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Michael Ignatieff
Publisher: Harvard
Published: 11/19/2013
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.76w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780674725997


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/30/2013
New York Times Book Review 04/24/2014 pg. 28

About the Author
Ignatieff, Michael: - Michael Ignatieff is Rector and President of Central European University in Budapest and former Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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