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Dec 2023
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Rory Stewart on Politics, Ambition, and ...

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Rory Stewart may be the most interesting person you’ve never heard of. He’s an adventurer, writer, politician, and non-profit leader. He walked across Afghanistan — alone — in the months after 9/11 and wrote a book about the experience that the New York Times called a “flat-out masterpiece,” served as a deputy governor in Iraq, held a chair at Harvard, and was elected to British Parliament. Now he’s out with a new memoir called “How Not to Be a Politician.” It’s a funny, candid, and somewhat shocking chronicle of the decade he spent in office. It’s also a book about why our political system feels so broken and what we can do to repair it.

Host: Caleb Bissinger

Guest: Rory Stewart

Book: “How Not to Be a Politician”

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