His conversations with Navalny are deeply fascinating, as they picture for you what being the front man in the fight against one of the most brutal governments in the world must feel like: the anger, the terror, and pain If any reader needed any more proof that this was going to be the exceptionally well written book that it is, he also has a degree in Creative Writing. He was a senior speechwriter in the Obama 20 campaigns, and in the White House. Personal highlights included helping negotiate the Iran Nuclear Deal and the re-opening of Cuba and US relations, both of which feature in this book, just as they did in his memoir The World As It Is. For eight years, he served in the national security apparatus of the White House under President Obama. Rhodes is likely the perfect person to write a reckoning about our increasingly technocratic and undemocratic world. The fall, he suggests, was essentially self-made. Its excesses at home and abroad, both relating to economics and foreign policy, created a fightback against the liberal democracy that he, and presumably all his readers, believe in so much. He comes to the conclusion that our changed world order was the United State’s doing. Why and how this has happened, is essentially what After the Fall by Ben Rhodes is about. Since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, the US has fallen from its position as the world’s only truly global power.
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