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Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics

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Description for Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics Hardback. In 2005, the author left Harvard to lead Canada's Liberal Party and by 2008 was poised to become Prime Minister. It never happened. In this title, he describes what he learned from his bruising defeat about compromise and the necessity of bridging differences in a pluralist society. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BM; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 364.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
364g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674725997
SKU
V9780674725997
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About Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff is Rector and President of Central European University in Budapest and former Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Reviews for Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics
I’ve never read a politician’s account of seeking and maintaining power that has quite the level of candor I found here—beginning with the admission that ‘there are few rewards for candor in politics.’
Barton Swaim
Wall Street Journal
Engagingly frank… Ignatieff has written an elegant, thoughtful, candid book explaining why he tried, and how he failed, to ... Read more

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