Details. Condition: Brand New. Format: Hardback. ISBN: 9781838955045. Publisher: Atlantic Books. Age Range: Adult. Overview. Politics: A Survivor's Guide is award-winning Guardian columnist Rafael Behr's incisive, deeply personal look at why modern politics feels so exhausting - and how to stay involved without losing your mind. Drawing on three decades reporting from Westminster to the former Soviet Union, Behr blends memoir, history and sharp analysis to explain the forces pulling democracy apart, and offers a genuinely hopeful path through the noise for anyone who cares about the state of the world but is tired of shouting matches.. About the Book. We live in an age of fury and confusion, where one crisis barely ends before the next begins - financial crashes, Brexit, a pandemic, war in Europe, inflation and strikes. Prime Ministers come and go, but public life stays divided and toxic, and it's tempting to simply switch off the news and hope for a return to normal. Behr argues that this turbulence is the new normal, and that healthy democracy depends on enough of us staying engaged without becoming enraged. Rather than picking a side, the book steps back to ask why politics has…

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