Waterstones The World As It Is
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Price: £10.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Obama. The other is Ben Rhodes. The World As It Is tells the full story of what it means to work alongside a radical leader; of how idealism can confront reality and survive; of how the White House really functions; and of what it is to have a partnership, and ultimately a friendship, with a historic president. A young writer and Washington outsider, Ben Rhodes was plucked from obscurity aged 29. Chosen for his original perspective and gift with language, his role was to help shape the nation's hopes and sense of itself. For nearly ten years, Rhodes was at the centre of the Obama Administration - first as a speechwriter, then a policymaker, and finally a multi-purpose aide and close collaborator. Rhodes puts us in the room at the most tense and poignant moments in recent history: starting every morning with Obama in the Daily Briefing; waiting out the bin Laden raid in the Situation Room; reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran; leading secret negotiations with the Cuban government; confronting the resurgence of nationalism that led to the election of Donald Trump. This is the most vivid portrayal yet of Obama's presidency. It is an essential record of the last decade. But it also shows us what it means to hold the pen, and to write the words that change our world.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781784708252
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781784708252
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Author: nick fraser
Rating: 5
Review: Many many accounts made of White House. Think of the boring eulogies of Camelot written by courtiers. Ben Rhodes is a very good writer and thankfully he didn't went to university and became (his view) the denizen 'the blob' that sits in Washington ponticate. He understood the unknown Obama in Chicago and became his friend. He wrote a million words of Obama's speeches throughout the world- in Cairo, in Britain, Norway Germany . He tells us that he read twelve times Obama's autobiography. He's a idealistic liberal. Many times he didn't agreed with Obama, a remarkable man who understand the nastiness and lack of non intelligent of his enemies. This is one of the best modern autobiographies. How can you written draft after drafts and listen the speeches you have made? Rhodes understood better that Obama couldn't fight again the new war of non-information coming from Russia. Bizarrely the White House didn't have a huge staff. The bloated bureaucracy didn't function. I recalled this book with Ben Rhodes holding a drink of whisky or beer didn't wore his socks or left his razor. His intelligence is on every page. This is a depressing view of the end of the half-era of Obama. A wonderful read. Enjoy how much people liked Obama even if they didn't really belief of the promise
Author: Amazon Customer
Rating: 4
Review: A balanced, intimate and enriching account of Obama's foreign policy narrated by none other than Ben Rhodes, a very close and trusted confidant of Barack Obama. Ben Rhodes, whose formal title was the Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, takes his readers through the evolution of Obama’s foreign policy from the campaign offices in Chicago to the intense meetings in the Situation Room. Written in a very unique style, Rhodes has done a good job narrating the various foreign policy choices of Obama peppered with personal anecdotes and the usual west wing gossip, one would always look for in a presidential staffer's memoir. Highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand Obama’s foreign policy and his impact on individuals and their outlook on the world.
