How Not to Be a Politician

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 point Rory 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 Conservative, though there was much about the party that he disagreed with, and vice versa. ;;;;Finally, after nine years of service and six ministerial roles, and shocked by his party’s lurch to the populist right, Stewart run for Prime Minister. To the consternation of many fellow Conservatives, Rory’s campaign-- driven by his fresh use of social media--took him into the lead in the opinion polls, head to head against Boris Johnson. The party deck was stacked against his brand of centrist politics, but it was a close-run thing. Now,

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