Politics On the Edge - A Memoir from Within

Wide-ranging readership : Rory''s audience skews urban and younger - reaching the newly politically engaged (or re-engaged) as well as established politicos>

About the author

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 Brady-Johnson Professor of the Practice of Grand Strategy at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs, a senior adviser at the non-profit organisation GiveDirectly, and the co-host with Alastair Campbell of the UK's leading podcast The Rest Is Politics. He tweets at @RoryStewartUK.

Product details

• Authors: Rory Stewart, Stewart Rory
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2023
• EAN: 9781787332713
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-271-3
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 240 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; England, Political Parties, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Political leaders & leadership, Political structures: democracy, British & Irish history, EU (European Union), Autobiography: historical, political and military, Political parties and party platforms, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Regional, state and other local government, Parliamentary and legislative practice