Prior to joining the administration, Rhodes was a senior speechwriter and foreign policy adviser to the Obama campaign from 2007 to 2008. In the book’s most appealing passages, Rhodes “sits down with people very much like himself, chastened idealists who have come to know the world as it is but refuse to conform to its demands,” said a review in The New York Times. “It’s an inquiry into the rise of authoritarianism, with a lot of introspection into what has changed in the US, and what has not,” said the review. It became unchecked and unsure of its national direction.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the US had no enemy to pour its resources at. His argument is simple, powerful and ought to be read. Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes says that after 9/11 he was so. Rhodes tries to tackle exactly why our populist fall has occurred, and he traces it back to his home. His book was a “fascinating look into America in context with the rest of the world (specifically in comparison to Hungary, Hong Kong and Russia),” said a review on . Corey Robin Fall 2019 Barack Obama walks to the Oval Office after a rally. Former Obama administration foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes examines why in a new book called After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made. There’s an unacknowledged irony in this, the second meditation on world affairs by Ben Rhodes, a speechwriter and. After the Fall is an excellently written book that is equally alarming and comforting in its diagnosis regarding the nationalist direction that both America and the world at large has taken in recent years.įrom 2009 to 2017, author Ben Rhodes served as deputy national security adviser to former US President Barack Obama, overseeing the administration’s national security communications, speechwriting, public diplomacy, and global engagement programming. After the Fall by Ben Rhodes review a mess of America’s own making.

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