Fire and Ashes: Success and failure in politics
Harvard University Press (Inbooks), $39.95 hb, 218 pp
A scholar–politician learns from defeat
Knowledge gained through academic life is no preparation for political practice. So found Michael Ignatieff, the distinguished Canadian historian and public intellectual. In October 2004 he was teaching at Harvard University when approached by ‘three men in black’. These Liberal Party power brokers suggested Ignatieff leave the classroom and run for office. Fire and Ashes tells what happened next. By January 2006 Ignatieff found himself in the House of Commons in Ottawa. Less than three years later he was leader of the Opposition.
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Fire and Ashes: Success and failure in politics
by Michael Ignatieff
Harvard University Press (Inbooks), $39.95 hb, 218 pp
