Politics On the Edge - The must-read #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics

Name: Politics On the Edge
Price: 9.49 EUR
Author: Rory Stewart
ISBN: 9781473581425

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Rory Stewart

Vintage Digital
Paru le : 14/09/2023

The searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of The Rest Is Politics. 'The most exceptional political... > Lire la suite

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The searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of 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, 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.
Uncompromising, honest and darkly humorous, this is his story of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life. Instantly praised as a new classic, it is an astonishing portrait of our turbulent times. 'Genuinely eye-opening.always riveting, often horrifying' iNEWS 'Beautifully written' GUARDIAN 'Hugely entertaining' EVENING STANDARD BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 * A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FT, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, TIMES, OBSERVER, i NEWSPAPER, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT, CHURCH TIMES AND SCOTSMAN * Politics on the Edge was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller from 09.09.23-16.09.23, 09.12.23-16.12.23, 30.12.23-06.01.24 and 11.06.24-25.06.24.

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Date de parution : 14/09/2023
Editeur : Vintage Digital
ISBN : 978-1-4735-8142-5
EAN : 9781473581425
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Biographie de Rory Stewart

Rory Stewart served in the UK Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development, and before that as Prisons Minister, Minister for Africa, Minister for Development, Environment Minister and Chair of the Defence Committee. He ran against Boris Johnson for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2019. Earlier in his career he was briefly in the British Army, before serving as a diplomat in Indonesia, the Balkans and Iraq, establishing and running a charity in Afghanistan, and holding a chair at Harvard University.
His 21-month 6, 000-milewalk across Asia, including Afghanistan, is recorded in his New York Times bestseller, The Places in Between. His other books include Occupational Hazards, and The Marches. Stewart is now the president of the non-profit organisation GiveDirectly, a visiting fellow at Yale's Jackson School and the co-host with Alastair Campbell of the UK's leading podcast The Rest Is Politics.
He tweets at @RoryStewartUK.