Politics on the Edge
A Memoir from Within
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Rory Stewart
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Rory Stewart
About this listen
The searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of The Rest Is Politics.
Over the course of a decade, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister – before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise.
Uncompromising, honest and darkly humorous, this is his story of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life. Instantly praised as a new classic, it is an astonishing portrait of our turbulent times.
BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
‘Rory Stewart’s Politics on the Edge digs deeper than most. As well as a fascinating insider account of the Cameron-May-Johnson premierships, it is a scathing portrait of our flawed political system and a “rebarbative profession” that, despite Stewart’s appetite for public service, chewed him up and spat him out’ GUARDIAN
‘Genuinely eye-opening…always riveting, often horrifying’
iNEWS
‘Hugely entertaining’
EVENING STANDARD
‘The most exceptional political memoir I’ve ever read’
ALAN JOHNSON
‘An instant classic’
MARINA HYDE
‘At last a politician who can write’
SEBASTIAN FAULKS
* A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FT, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, TIMES, OBSERVER, i NEWSPAPER, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT, CHURCH TIMES AND SCOTSMAN *
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- Srijoy Kanjilal
- 29-07-24
Intriguing political discourse
Rory Stewart seems to have quite the actor's chops. His reading of his own book (and story) leaves you quite entertained for not only does he tell a compelling tale he does so he with much enthusiasm.. his knack for voices, mimicry and intonation comes in very handy in enlivening a rather banal (often a bit sordid) political drama.
I'm only a distant observer of British politics and while this was quite an insider's view of the goings-on, it did leave me a little dissatisfied as to how he failed not from a lack of trying but otherwise. He hardly touched upon it in his drive to prove that he was right about this and right about that! It seemed, at times - not always thankfully, more an account aimed at self glorification than anything else. This said, it was indeed interesting to hear and is worth a read/listen.
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