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&...
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New York :
Random House,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Part 1. Hope : 2007-2010. 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
- Part 2. Spring : 2011-2012. 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
- Part 3. Change : 2013-2014. Clenched fists ; Red line ; Becoming a right-wing villain ; Race, Mandela, and Castro ; Russians and intervention ; Divine intervention ; Permanent war ; New beginnings
- Part 4. What makes America great : 2015-2017. Tapping the brakes ; The antiwar room ; Bombs and children ; Havana ; The stories people tell about you ; The stories we tell ; Information wars ; The end.