Ben Rhodes. (2021). After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made. Random House Publishing Group.

Ben Rhodes. 2021. After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made. Random House Publishing Group.

Ben Rhodes, After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made. Random House Publishing Group, 2021.

Ben Rhodes. After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made. Random House Publishing Group, 2021.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Vital reading for Americans and people anywhere who seek to understand what is happening ‘after the fall’ of the global system created by the United States” (New York Journal of Books), from the former White House aide, close confidant to President Barack Obama, and author of The World as It Is
 
At a time when democracy in the United States is endangered as never before, Ben Rhodes spent years traveling the world to understand why. He visited dozens of countries, meeting with politicians and activists confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that are tearing America apart. Along the way, he discusses the growing authoritarianism of Vladimir Putin, and his aggression towards Ukraine, with the foremost opposition leader in Russia, who was subsequently poisoned and imprisoned; he profiled Hong Kong protesters who saw their movement snuffed out by China under Xi Jinping; and America itself reached the precipice of losing democracy before giving itself a fragile second chance. 
The characters and issues that Rhodes illuminates paint a picture that shows us where we are today—from Barack Obama to a rising generation of international leaders; from the authoritarian playbook endangering democracy to the flood of disinformation enabling authoritarianism. Ultimately, Rhodes writes personally and powerfully about finding hope in the belief that looking squarely at where America has gone wrong can make clear how essential it is to fight for what America is supposed to be, for our own country and the entire world.

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     February 1, 2021
     

     Former deputy national security adviser to President Barack Obama and New York Times best-selling author of The World as It Is, Rhodes began traveling the world in 2017 so that he could better understand what was happening in his own country. He found rising nationalism, authoritarianism, and disinformation--and the will to fight back.

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     May 1, 2021
     A former Obama administration adviser examines the slow fall from grace that led to Trump. The assumption that America was somehow different from the rest of the world was an article of faith in his childhood, writes Rhodes. "In the span of just thirty years, this assumption would come crashing down," he adds, undermined by the very thing that had heralded greatness: a robust capitalism that produced global inequality, undermined the working class, and encouraged official corruption. "To be an American in 2020 was to live in a country diminished in the world," he writes. With that diminution, other nations rose: Putin's Russia, but especially Xi Jinping's China. "In Singapore," writes Rhodes, who traveled the world to write this book, "a senior government official told me casually over drinks that Asia had moved on from America--speaking as if this gleaming capitalist construction had almost been seamlessly handed off to the Chinese." Meanwhile, other global leaders behaved like Trump--notably Hungary's Viktor Orb�n, who was once an anti-communist liberal but found more opportunities to exercise power as a nationalist, quietly suppressing opposition while keeping the beer flowing. "Perhaps this was how fascists got away with it through history...there's enough normal life out there for people to grab on to," Rhodes writes. Even in the surveillance state of China, this holds true, at least for ethnic Chinese--and, notes the author, Trump is said to have approved of Xi's program of concentration camps for dissident Uighurs. The author clearly shows that fear and self-censorship work in the U.S. as well as anywhere in the world. As for the pandemic and Trump's failings there, the U.S. emerges as "a country that killed hundreds of thousands of people through our own unique blend of incompetence and irrationality," no model for anyone. It's a stinging, and entirely well-founded, rebuke of a political strain that shows no signs of disappearing. A powerful synthesis of recent world history that should disabuse readers of any notion of American exceptionalism.

     COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     Rhodes (an Obama speechwriter and former White House NSC advisor), author of The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House, gives his impressions of the post-9/11 influence of the United States through its embrace of social media as well as the nation's dive into nationalism and authoritarianism. His lucidly written book, aimed at non-specialists, has as its central theme that the United States is not the exceptional country it claims to be. Rhodes traveled extensively as an international policy adviser, and later as an NGO employee, and recounts many of his on-the-street conversations with people in Myanmar, Hungary, Russia, and China. He describes the legacy of the Trump administration as increased division, disinformation, and disorientation. As part of his background story, Rhodes details the cultural impacts of his Texan Christian father and New York Jewish mother. Readers might wish that he disclosed more details about how he rose to the heights of his public career at such a young age. VERDICT A useful, albeit partisan, view of the U.S. political scene from one of its lesser-known participants. Similar, but not identical reflections are offered in Samantha Power's The Education of an Idealist, Susan Rice's Tough Love, and, conversely, Karl Rove's Courage and Consequence.--Frederick J. Augustyn Jr., Lib. of Congress, Washington, DC

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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At a time when democracy in the United States is endangered as never before, Ben Rhodes spent years traveling the world to understand why. He visited dozens of countries, meeting with politicians and activists confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that are tearing America apart. Along the way, he discusses the growing authoritarianism of Vladimir Putin, and his aggression towards Ukraine, with the foremost opposition leader in Russia, who was subsequently poisoned and imprisoned; he profiled Hong Kong protesters who saw their movement snuffed...

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