How Not to Be a Politician: A Memoir Stewart Rory
From a great writer legendary for his expeditions into some of the world's most forbidding places, a wise, honest and sometimes absurdist memoir of a most remarkable journey through British politics…
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From a great writer legendary for his expeditions into some of the world's most forbidding places, a wise, honest and sometimes absurdist memoir of a most remarkable journey through British politics at the breaking pointRory Stewart is famously intrepid. After a stint as a British diplomat, he first made his name in America with a memoir of his two-year walk across Iran, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, essentially solo, in the months after 9/11, and he went on to perform valiant public service in war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan. Settled afterward at an academic perch at Harvard, he quickly became restless. With scant hope of winning the primary, and no prior connection to politics, he stood for a seat in Parliament representing a rural district in Cumbria, the idyllic locale of the Lake District and also one of the poorest districts in England. He ran as a