Fire and Ashes : Success and Failure in Politics.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (220 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- One: Hubris -- Two: Ambition -- Three: Fortuna -- Four: Reading the Room -- Five: Money and Language -- Six: Responsibility and Representation -- Seven: Standing -- Eight: Enemies and Adversaries -- Nine: What the Taxi Driver Said -- Ten: The Calling -- Notes -- Index.
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.