'Fire and Ashes' is the best book about what it feels like to be a politician since Richard Ben Cramer’s 'What It Takes.' Ignatieff was betrayed by old friends. He endured unearned and lofty condescension from political columnists. In Parliament, he became a total partisan, putting, as one must, loyalty to the group above loyalty to truth. He had no friends who were not in his own party. He loathed the other side. “We never wasted a single breath trying to convince each other of anything,” he recalls.
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