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A distinguished intellectual, writer, journalist, and academic gives up his library and his chair at Harvard to pursue a political career at the highest level and for six years he experiences the passion and the fever, the enthusiasm and the intrigue, the failure and the success of party politics in the vast Canadian scene. Six years after that immersion in political life, he goes back to his library, he does some thinking, and he offers us an exceptionally insightful and honest account of that adventure. This book is a compass that will help the reader find his or her way in the dizzying maze that politics has become in the great modern democracies.--Mario Vargas Llosa

The best book about what it feels like to be a politician since Richard Ben Cramer s What It Takes .--David Brooks New York Times (02/13/2014)

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Michael Ignatieff is Rector and President of Central European University in Budapest and former Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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