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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788923303321

Autore

Ignatieff Michael

Titolo

Fire and ashes : success and failure in politics / / Michael Ignatieff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : Harvard University Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-674-72967-6

0-674-72965-X

Edizione

[First Harvard University Press edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Classificazione

HQ 5999

Disciplina

328.71/092

B

Soggetti

Politicians - Canada

Political culture - Canada

Canada Politics and government 1980-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hubris -- Ambition -- Fortuna -- Reading the room -- Money and language -- Responsibility and representation -- Standing -- Enemies and adversaries -- What the taxi driver said -- The calling.

Sommario/riassunto

In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left Harvard to lead Canada's Liberal Party and by 2008 was poised to become Prime Minister. It never happened. He describes what he learned from his bruising defeat about compromise and the necessity of bridging differences in a pluralist society. A reflective, compelling account of modern politics as it really is.