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How not to be a politician : a memoir
Stewart, Rory2023
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Place reservation for How not to be a politician : a memoirFrom a great writer-legendary for his expeditions into some of the world's most forbidding places comes a sometimes-absurdist memoir of a most remarkable journey through British politics at the breaking point. Rory Stewart was an unlikely politician. He was best known for his two-year walk across Asia -- in which he crossed Afghanistan, essentially solo, in the months after 9/11 -- and for his service, as a diplomat in Iraq, and Afghanistan. But in 2009, he abandoned his chair at Harvard University to stand for a seat in Parliament, representing the communities and farms of the Lake District and the Scottish border, one of the most isolated and beautiful districts in England. He ran as a Conservative, though he had no prior connection to the politics and there was much about the party that he disagreed with. This memoir is a candid and penetrating examination of life on the ground as a politician in an age of shallow populism, when every hard problem has a solution that's simple, appealing, and wrong. While undauntedly optimistic about what a public servant can accomplish in the lives of his constituents, the book is also a pitiless insider's exposé of the game of politics at the highest level, often shocking in its displays of rampant cynicism, ignorance, glibness, and sheer incompetence. Stewart witnesses Britain's vote to leave the European Union and its descent into political civil war, compounded by the bad faith of his party's leaders -- David Cameron, Boris Johnson, and Liz Truss. Finally, after nine years of service and six ministerial roles, and shocked by his party's lurch to the populist right, Stewart ran for prime minister. His campaign took him into the lead in the opinion polls, head-to-head against Boris Johnson. "How Not to Be a Politician" is his effort to make sense of it all, including what has happened to politics in Britain and the world and how we can fix it.
Main title:
How not to be a politician : a memoir / by Rory Stewart
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Imprint:
New York Penguin Press 2023
Collation:
x, 454 pages ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Suddenly Coming AliveGajumaru TreesThe Livestock RingThe Empty HallOne NationDistrict Commissioner for CumbriaTeam PlayerSelect CommitteeRed BoxPartiadate MatterPlenipotentiary Powers2017 Election'A Balliol man in Africa'The People's Political Consultative ConferenceUnlearning HelplessnessBarking at DronesBackstopResignationLoving StrictThe Vanishing MiddleSecretary of StateLeadershipStanding UpPinocchioPro-rogueQuaestor.
ISBN:
97805933003290593300327
Dewey class:
941.0861BIOGRAPHY
Language:
English
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BRN:
526660
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | BIOGRAPHY STEW | On reserve shelf at Penrith |
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