A writer goes into politics and gives us an unusually honest and personal glimpse into life as a politician
Politics is a dirty business. And terribly boring. Everyone knows that. Yet the writer and Green-Party politician Robert Habeck counter-argues: You have to imagine the politician as a happy person – as long as he manages not to lose sight of his political vision.
The so-called disenchantment with politics and political parties has been with us for years, politicians have a pitiful public reputation. Successful author and devoted family man Robert Habeck writes about why he has been committed to the Green Party for a good ten years now, even though he switched to a political career late in life, and is now, as deputy prime minister of Schleswig-Holstein, helping to shape the state with great passion, and why he wants to be the Green Party’s front-running candidate in Germany’s 2017 parliamentary elections.
Habeck writes intimately and with great honesty about what drives him politically, how life in public offices has changed him, how he deals with setbacks and why he is fighting for a culture of doubt even in an era of quick political answers. A book that’s like a fresh breeze blowing through the backrooms of politics – and a passionate plea for political involvement. For, according to Habeck: Nothing has ever gotten better by looking away. Rather, we should once again work together to find answers to the really big questions: What sort of society do we want to be? What kind of a future do we want to live in?
