Rory Stewart: Politics On the Edge
Politics On the Edge
Buch
- A Memoir from Within
- Random House UK Ltd, 09/2023
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781787332713
- Bestellnummer: 11555875
- Gewicht: 750 g
- Maße: 240 x 156 mm
- Stärke: 40 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 14.9.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament, by the former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics
'The most exceptional political memoir I've ever read' ALAN JOHNSON
'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE
'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS
Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise.
Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow our democracy and government had become.
Cronyism, ignorance and sheer incompetence ran rampant. Around him, individual politicians laid the foundations for the political and economic chaos of today. Stewart emerged battered but with a profound affection for his constituency of Penrith and the Border, and a deep direct insight into the era of populism and global conflict.
Uncompromising, candid and darkly humorous, Politics On the Edge is his story of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life and a remarkable portrait of our age.
**A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TIMES, OBSERVER, i NEWSPAPER, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT, CHURCH TIMES AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**
Politics on the Edge was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller from 09.09.23-16.09.23, and 09.12.23-16.12.23, and 30.12.23-06.01.24
Biografie
Rory Stewart, in Hongkong als Schotte geboren und in Malaysia aufgewachsen, Historiker und Journalist, arbeitete im diplomatischen Dienst für die britische Regierung, zunächst in Indonesien, dann im Kosovo. Im Jahr 2000 begann er seine Reise von der Türkei bis nach Bangladesch. Über einen Zeitraum von 21 Monaten legte er mehr als 10.000 km zu Fuß zurück und lernte den Iran, Pakistan, Indien, Nepal und schließlich Afghanistan wie kein Zweiter kennen. Nach längerem Aufenthalt im Irak lebt er heute in Kabul, wo er die Turquoise Mountain Foundation leitet. Rory Stewart
Politics On the Edge
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