The world as it is a memoir of the Obama White House

For nearly ten years, Ben Rhodes saw almost everything that happened at the center of the Obama administration, first as a speechwriter, then as deputy national security advisor, and finally as a multipurpose aide and close collaborator. He started every morning in the Oval Office with the President...

Full description

Main Author: Rhodes, Benjamin. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House, [2018]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • In the beginning
  • Talk to Iran, get Bin Laden
  • A community of fate
  • The President is on board the aircraft
  • Cairo
  • Obama's war
  • War and a peace prize
  • The end of the beginning
  • Egypt: The transition must begin now
  • Libya
  • Bin Laden: Life inside a secret
  • Gathering clouds
  • Reaction and action
  • Life, death, and Benghazi
  • A second term
  • Young men wage war, old men make peace
  • Clenched fists
  • Red line
  • Becoming a right-wing villain
  • Race, Mandela, and Castro
  • Russians and intervention
  • Divine intervention
  • Permanent war
  • New beginnings
  • Tapping the brakes
  • The antiwar room
  • Bombs and children
  • Havana
  • The stories people tell about you
  • The stories we tell
  • Information wars
  • The end.