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Fire and Ashes

Success and Failure in Politics

Michael Ignatieff

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ISBN 9780674725997

Publication Date: 11/19/2013

224 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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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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At The New Republic, read Michael Ignatieff’s “Letter to a Young Liberal”
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Via WGBH’s Forum Network, watch Ignatieff discuss his experience at an event at Cambridge, MA’s Harvard Book Store
Read profiles of Ignatieff—and his political rise and fall—in the Boston Globe, Chronicle Review, and the Harvard Gazette
Listen to Ignatieff on ABC Radio National’s Saturday Extra
At Times Higher Education, read how Ignatieff was humbled by his political experience (but discovered it made him a better teacher)
Read a New York Times op-ed by Ignatieff about the political dysfunction that occurs when leaders abandon good-faith negotiations in favor of a “war” mentality

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