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The World as It Is
- A Memoir of the Obama White House
- ナレーター: Ben Rhodes, Mark Deakins
- 再生時間: 15 時間 45 分
- カテゴリー: 政治学・社会科学, 政治・政府
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Yes We (Still) Can
- Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
- 著者: Dan Pfeiffer
- ナレーター: Dan Pfeiffer
- 再生時間: 7 時間 29 分
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The Decade of Obama (2007-2017) was one of massive change that rewrote the rules of politics in ways we are only now beginning to understand (which is why we all got 2016 wrong). Yes We (Still) Can looks at how Obama navigated the forces that allowed Trump to win the White House to become one of the most consequential presidents in American history, why Trump surprised everyone, and how Democrats can come out on top in the long run.
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So Here's the Thing...
- Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut
- 著者: Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler
- ナレーター: Alyssa Mastromonaco
- 再生時間: 5 時間 46 分
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Alyssa Mastromonaco is back with a bold, no-nonsense, and no-holds-barred 21st-century girl's guide to life, tackling the highs and lows of bodies, politics, relationships, moms, education, life on the internet, and pop culture. Whether discussing Barbra Streisand or The Bachelor, working in the West Wing or working on finding a wing woman, Alyssa leaves no stone unturned...and no awkward situation unexamined.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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The Education of an Idealist
- 著者: Samantha Power
- ナレーター: Samantha Power
- 再生時間: 21 時間 2 分
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The Education of an Idealist traces Power’s extraordinary journey, from Irish immigrant to human rights activist to United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Power began her career as a war correspondent and as a vocal critic of US foreign policy, and then put her ideals into practice while working with Obama in the Senate, on the campaign trail, and throughout his presidency. Power’s perspective on government is unique, as she takes us from the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the Situation Room and out into the world of high-stakes diplomacy.
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The Back Channel
- A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
- 著者: William J. Burns
- ナレーター: Mark Bramhall, William J. Burns
- 再生時間: 17 時間 5 分
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Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time - from the bloodless end of the Cold War to the collapse of post-Cold War relations with Putin’s Russia, from post-9/11 tumult in the Middle East to the secret nuclear talks with Iran. In The Back Channel, Burns recounts, with novelistic detail and incisive analysis, some of the seminal moments of his career.
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Believer
- My Forty Years in Politics
- 著者: David Axelrod
- ナレーター: David Axelrod
- 再生時間: 19 時間 3 分
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The man behind some of the greatest political changes of the last decade, David Axelrod has devoted a lifetime to questioning political certainties and daring to bring fresh thinking into the political landscape. Whether as a child hearing John F. Kennedy stump in New York or as a strategist guiding the first African American to the White House, Axelrod shows in Believer how his own life stands at the center of the tumultuous American century.
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Yes We (Still) Can
- Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
- 著者: Dan Pfeiffer
- ナレーター: Dan Pfeiffer
- 再生時間: 7 時間 29 分
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The Decade of Obama (2007-2017) was one of massive change that rewrote the rules of politics in ways we are only now beginning to understand (which is why we all got 2016 wrong). Yes We (Still) Can looks at how Obama navigated the forces that allowed Trump to win the White House to become one of the most consequential presidents in American history, why Trump surprised everyone, and how Democrats can come out on top in the long run.
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So Here's the Thing...
- Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut
- 著者: Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler
- ナレーター: Alyssa Mastromonaco
- 再生時間: 5 時間 46 分
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Alyssa Mastromonaco is back with a bold, no-nonsense, and no-holds-barred 21st-century girl's guide to life, tackling the highs and lows of bodies, politics, relationships, moms, education, life on the internet, and pop culture. Whether discussing Barbra Streisand or The Bachelor, working in the West Wing or working on finding a wing woman, Alyssa leaves no stone unturned...and no awkward situation unexamined.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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The Education of an Idealist
- 著者: Samantha Power
- ナレーター: Samantha Power
- 再生時間: 21 時間 2 分
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The Education of an Idealist traces Power’s extraordinary journey, from Irish immigrant to human rights activist to United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Power began her career as a war correspondent and as a vocal critic of US foreign policy, and then put her ideals into practice while working with Obama in the Senate, on the campaign trail, and throughout his presidency. Power’s perspective on government is unique, as she takes us from the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the Situation Room and out into the world of high-stakes diplomacy.
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The Back Channel
- A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
- 著者: William J. Burns
- ナレーター: Mark Bramhall, William J. Burns
- 再生時間: 17 時間 5 分
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Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time - from the bloodless end of the Cold War to the collapse of post-Cold War relations with Putin’s Russia, from post-9/11 tumult in the Middle East to the secret nuclear talks with Iran. In The Back Channel, Burns recounts, with novelistic detail and incisive analysis, some of the seminal moments of his career.
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Believer
- My Forty Years in Politics
- 著者: David Axelrod
- ナレーター: David Axelrod
- 再生時間: 19 時間 3 分
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The man behind some of the greatest political changes of the last decade, David Axelrod has devoted a lifetime to questioning political certainties and daring to bring fresh thinking into the political landscape. Whether as a child hearing John F. Kennedy stump in New York or as a strategist guiding the first African American to the White House, Axelrod shows in Believer how his own life stands at the center of the tumultuous American century.
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To Start a War
- How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
- 著者: Robert Draper
- ナレーター: Stefan Rudnicki
- 再生時間: 15 時間 30 分
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Even now, after more than 15 years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. For too many people, the damage is still too palpable and still unfolding. Robert Draper's prodigious reporting has yielded scores of important new revelations. As a whole, the audiobook paints a vivid and indelible picture of a decision-making process that was fatally compromised, by a combination of post-9/11 fear and paranoia, rank naïveté, craven groupthink, and a set of actors with idées fixes who gamed the process relentlessly.
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Not for the Faint of Heart
- Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence
- 著者: Wendy R. Sherman
- ナレーター: Wendy R. Sherman
- 再生時間: 8 時間 23 分
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Few people have sat across from the Iranians and the North Koreans at the negotiating table. Wendy Sherman has done both. During her time as the lead US negotiator of the historic Iran nuclear deal and throughout her distinguished career, Wendy Sherman has amassed tremendous expertise in the most pressing foreign policy issues of our time. Throughout her life - from growing up in civil-rights-era Baltimore to stints as a social worker, campaign manager, and business owner to advising multiple presidents - she has relied on values that have shaped her approach to work and leadership.
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Our Man
- Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
- 著者: George Packer
- ナレーター: Joe Barrett
- 再生時間: 20 時間 11 分
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Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was the force behind the Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan wars, America's greatest diplomatic achievement in the post-Cold War era. His power lay in an utter belief in himself and his idea of a muscular, generous foreign policy. From his days as a young adviser in Vietnam to his last efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, Holbrooke embodied the postwar American impulse to take the lead on the global stage.
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The Audacity of Hope
- Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 6 時間 10 分
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In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics: a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of "our improbable experiment in democracy".
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Every Day Is Extra
- 著者: John Kerry
- ナレーター: John Kerry
- 再生時間: 28 時間 25 分
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Every Day Is Extra is Kerry’s passionate, insightful, sometimes funny, always moving account of his life. Kerry tells wonderful stories about colleagues Ted Kennedy and John McCain, as well as President Obama and other major figures. He writes movingly of recovering his faith while in the Senate, and deplores the hyper-partisanship that has infected Washington. Few books convey as convincingly as this one the life of public service like that which John Kerry has lived for 50 years.
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The World
- A Brief Introduction
- 著者: Richard Haass
- ナレーター: Dan Woren
- 再生時間: 10 時間 24 分
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The World is designed to provide listeners of any age and experience with the essential background and building blocks they need to make sense of this complicated and interconnected world. It will empower them to manage the flood of daily news. Listeners will become more informed, discerning citizens, better able to arrive at sound, independent judgments. While it is impossible to predict what the next crisis will be or where it will originate, those who listen to The World will have what they need to understand its basics and the principal choices for how to respond.
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The Gatekeepers
- How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
- 著者: Chris Whipple
- ナレーター: Mark Bramhall
- 再生時間: 12 時間 14 分
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The chiefs of staff, often referred to as "the gatekeepers", wield tremendous power in Washington and beyond; they decide who is allowed to see the president, negotiate with Congress to push POTUS's agenda, and - most crucially - enjoy unparalleled access to the leader of the free world. Through extensive, intimate interviews with 18 living chiefs (including Reince Priebus) and two former presidents, award-winning journalist and producer Chris Whipple pulls back the curtain on this unique fraternity. In doing so, he revises our understanding of presidential history.
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Finding My Voice
- My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
- 著者: Valerie Jarrett
- ナレーター: Valerie Jarrett
- 再生時間: 11 時間 23 分
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"The ultimate Obama insider" (The New York Times) and longest-serving senior advisor in the Obama White House shares her journey as a daughter, mother, lawyer, business leader, public servant, and leader in government at a historic moment in American history.
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Beautiful Things
- A Memoir
- 著者: Hunter Biden
- ナレーター: Hunter Biden
- 再生時間: 6 時間 34 分
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When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of 46. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. In Beautiful Things, Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path to sobriety.
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Caste
- The Lies That Divide Us
- 著者: Isabel Wilkerson
- ナレーター: Robin Miles
- 再生時間: 14 時間 26 分
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Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today. With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilisations and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste.
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Trust
- America's Best Chance
- 著者: Pete Buttigieg
- ナレーター: Pete Buttigieg
- 再生時間: 4 時間 46 分
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Recognizing that we are now experiencing disastrous consequences, the former South Bend mayor offers a direct reckoning with the corruption of social responsibility, interweaving history, political philosophy, and affecting passages of memoir, offering a new outlook for how we can confront the next decade’s challenges by building accountability. In this urgent work, Buttigieg confirms his status as a visionary political thinker.
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They Said This Day Would Never Come
- Chasing the Dream on Obama's Improbable Campaign
- 著者: Chris Liddell-Westefeld
- ナレーター: Chris Liddell-Westefeld, Dion Graham, Graham Halstead, 、その他
- 再生時間: 8 時間 7 分
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In the year leading up to the Iowa caucuses, few thought a freshman senator named Barack Hussein Obama would be able to win the Democratic nomination - not to mention become the most popular leader in the world. But something was stirring. Hundreds of young people from all over the country began assembling first in Iowa. These "kids" became the foundation of one of the most improbable presidential campaigns of the modern era. Chris Liddell-Westefeld was one of those kids. He and thousands of other staff and volunteers dedicated their time, intelligence, and resources to help elect Barack Obama.
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"Ben Rhodes, who served Barack Obama as a foreign policy adviser and speechwriter from beginning to end, has written a book that reflects the president he served - intelligent, amiable, compelling and principled. And there is something more: The World as It Is is a classic coming-of-age story, about the journey from idealism to realism, told with candor and immediacy.... His achievement is rare for a political memoir: He has written a humane and honorable book." (Joe Klein, The New York Times Book Review)
"In The World as It Is, Rhodes shows no trace of the disillusionment that gave George Stephanopoulos's tale of Bill Clinton its bitter, gossipy flavor, or of the light irony that came to inflect Peggy Noonan's adoration of Ronald Reagan. More than any other White House memoirist, Rhodes is a creature of the man he served.... This is the closest view of Obama we're likely to get until he publishes his own memoir." (George Packer, The New Yorker)
"Ben Rhodes is one of the most brilliant minds and powerful storytellers I've ever known. In The World as It Is, he doesn't just bring you inside the room for the key moments of Obama's presidency, he captivates you with the journey of an idealistic young staffer who becomes the president's close friend and advisor - a journey that both cynics and believers will find riveting and hopeful." (Jon Favreau)
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From one of Obama’s closest aides comes a revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of his presidency - and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive - in the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.’s A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House.
For nearly 10 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’s Daily Brief, traveled the world with Obama, and was at the center of some of the most consequential and controversial moments of the presidency. Now, he tells the full story of his partnership - and, ultimately, friendship - with a man who also happened to be a historic president of the United States.
Rhodes was not your typical presidential confidant, and this is not your typical White House memoir. Rendered in vivid, novelistic detail by someone who was a writer before he was a staffer, this is a rare look inside the most poignant, tense, and consequential moments of the Obama presidency - waiting out the bin Laden raid in the Situation Room, responding to the Arab Spring, reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran, leading secret negotiations with the Cuban government to normalize relations, and confronting the resurgence of nationalism and nativism that culminated in the election of Donald Trump.
In The World as It Is, Rhodes shows what it was like to be there - from the early days of the Obama campaign to the final hours of the presidency. It is a story populated by such characters as Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Hillary Clinton, Bob Gates, and - above all - Barack Obama, who comes to life in moments of great urgency and disarming intimacy. This is the most vivid portrayal yet of Obama’s worldview and presidency, a chronicle of a political education by a writer of enormous talent, and an essential record of the forces that shaped the last decade.
Read by Mark Deakins. Prologue read by the author.
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- Alexander
- 2018/06/16
Worth every minute
This is an excellent account of a man that spent 8years in the White House working with President Obama. I appreciated how the author’s voice is written in a way that allows the reader or listener to visualize the story. Not one dry moment exist in this memoir. I’ve read many books about Obama and all of them leave me with the impression of a genuinely honorable man that our country was lucky to have for 8 years. Whether you agree with his politics or not any reasonable person cannot deny that fact that Obama had integrity. That was clearly evident in the author’s description and from other accounts I’ve read. This was an excellent account of the years of Obama’s presidency and the man that so vividly captured its memorable moments. Well-written and enjoyable read.
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- Tried and True
- 2018/06/15
Inspiring and Bittersweet
Everything that touched you about Obama and his presidency is brought to life and deepened in this book. It is so very bittersweet to meet it again. Ben Rhodes narrates the introduction and it works so beautifully! Sadly, the narrator for the majority of the book can not come close to Ben's telling. I wish Audible would consider a redo on this because the book is golden! And all the more personal, heartfelt and touching when Ben reads.
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- Josh
- 2018/06/14
A work for posterity, not tomorrow's talking points
Everyone approaching this book anywhere near the time it was released is a part of this story. That is, you have your own story, and if at all you ever paid any attention to the news, or even just absorbed it by living, you experienced the moments portrayed in this book. More so,you reacted to them. As blips in news media. Not as stories as much as a succession of framed events, actions merged with a sprawl of opinions and emotional reactions. And then another framed event welded with words and words about the event.
Myself, I remember where I was, when Obama was elected. When gay marriage was made law. When Obama didn't order strikes on Syria. And for damn sure I know where I was the day after the 2016 election. I was throwing up, sick as a dog from stress. Had to call in sick. But that's me. I don't know about you.
So I, and you, know this story. That is our lives have happened with it in the backdrop. But do we know the story? Are the reports of what happened, followed by a war of words between "sides" to take control of how all of us perceive and thus respond to said events, are they any kind of real story, about real humans? Or are they more just a string of emotional reactions, where the key players cease to be real people, but something more like stand ins for ideas, that we either do or don't like, something verging more upon the lines of a terrifying fiction?
I continue to follow the news, as if I had a choice, all the actions and reactions before we all collectively move on to the next event and it's talking points. In all of it, I have no choice but to react to it, then and there. No big picture, no full story, just shocks and responses.
And then, here does come a story, a full one, about the Obama years, written by one of Obama's closest aides, who happens to be a very good writer.
The book is not an analysis of 'what happened,' it does not tell us how to think about the events portrayed, it is but the recollections of one man's life, while serving in the White House, one man's human story of the work he did for eight years, and it becomes a portrait of the vision and the focus of that work, and of the man from whom the direction of that vision came: it becomes a much appreciated, human portrait of Obama himself. Obama dancing with another aide in the back of a car to Thrift Shop by Maclemore, with the secret service in the front seats, the author wondering what they must think of it all. Obama joking with his staff, being the first to call after the author's first child was born, saying "The kid looks like you. Let's hope she ends up looking more like your wife Ann." Then adding, "your life will never be the same." Obama being short with his staff sometimes, the weight of the world almost literally upon his shoulders. And Obama, after Trump was elected, saying, "maybe we were wrong. Maybe people just want to be a part of their tribes."
That last one is quite a statement. I do not hold to every aspect of Obama's vision; I think, perhaps in some ways, his vision may be wrong. Nevertheless, through exploring it all more deeply, in retrospect now, I can't help but see it as of being a noble vision, and one that he attacked with great alacrity and focus.
All to say, this document stands out in the midst of ceaseless talking about politics. Now if you have come to see Obama and his people as comic book villains I can't say it will change your mind. But it is but a story. A good one, well told, beautiful, grateful, admiring, amazed and hopeful still. It's a good way to frame the world in context, as the author attempts to portray it, at least from his own eyes, as it is. Finished listening to it in less than a week.
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- Gregory
- 2018/06/12
A sad reminder of what things were and are.
I'm a little bit better for having 'read' this, and a little more sad for having taken that era for granted.
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- Peekay
- 2018/06/23
Good insight on day-to-day Obama
I got the book for the first-hand experience of Obama and the Obama years.
The book focuses more on foreign policy, a fact that I liked.
At some points, the author shares thoughts as happening at the time of that event, but I couldn’t tell they were not filtered by hindsight.
Nothing that he mentions about Obama is out of line with what one expects - and I’m ok with that. I guess I struggled a little with the full justification of foreign policy “failures” on moral or political grounds - it would be nice to acknowledge that probably not everything was done right.
Overall an enjoyable book.
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- Jean
- 2018/08/04
Insightful
The memoirs of Obama staffers are starting to come out now. I enjoy reading these political insider memoirs. I am aware they are biased to their own beliefs. I attempt to stay neutral and read these memoirs from both sides of the political divide. By doing this I hope to obtain a better understanding of the events.
This one is by Ben Rhodes who was Obama’s speechwriter and national security staffer. The book provides a look inside the Obama years. He states he is telling the story “of the journey from idealism to realism”. I enjoyed that Rhodes provides lots of interesting anecdotes as well as mixing his personal story into the current events. This allowed me to view the events through his eyes and emotions. The book is extremely well written and is easy to read. The book is also well researched. Rhodes has a master’s degree in creative writing and is a gifted writer. Rhodes paints himself in a positive manner, but does point out some of his bad habits and mistakes. The book provides inside information about how race played a role during Obama’s presidency. I was somewhat surprised and ashamed at the poor manners, attitude and obstructionism of the republicans toward Obama throughout his years in office. Is it just my impression or was the republican opposition to Obama personal or racial rather than ideological? This is not the typical political memoir. For those readers interested in this area, the book will not disappoint.
The book is almost sixteen hours long. Mark Deakins does an excellent job narrating the book. Deakins is an actor and audiobook narrator. He has won multiple Earphone Awards as well as voted Best Voice by Audiofile Magazine.
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- Jonathan Callies
- 2018/06/06
An immersive read; a thoughtful book; a tribute to
I ordered the audio book and am absolutely flabbergasted by the imerssiveness of Ben Rhodes' writing style. A piece from the New York Times articulates well the thoughts I have on Rhodes' work:
"Ben Rhodes is a charming and humble guide through an unprecedented presidency. He writes well, even though he has a master’s degree in creative writing, and he has a good eye. He observes that the national security adviser Jim Jones “had a strange habit” of giving advice to Obama “while looking at someone else in the room.” He describes furniture in Cuba “that went out of style so long ago that it’d be trendy in Brooklyn.” And that’s about as ferocious as he gets. There is no retributive backbiting of internal opponents like Hillary Clinton or Stanley McChrystal. In fact, Rhodes is far more candid about his own foibles. He drinks hard liquor, to the point of an occasional hangover. He smokes, furtively. He eats Chinese takeout, to excess. And he grows. He never quite loses his idealism; in a crass political era, he impressively avoids becoming a cynic. As a result, his achievement is rare for a political memoir: He has written a humane and honorable book."
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- Tamer
- 2018/06/25
Excellent review of the last Great 8 years
so much accomplished by Obama and so much reversed out of jealousness and bad political reasons. But I believe once something changes its changed for ever so Trump can cancel deals etc but change has taken place. So proud to have Obama as our president he is a true role model for all citizens and people of the world.
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- Carol L. Hopkins
- 2018/07/06
In The Room Where It Happened!
Ben Rhodes puts you in the room where it happened. With an amazing memory for detail, color, and events you yearn to be with him in that room. Until Barack Obama writes his own memoir I have no doubt that The World As It Is will be the definitive history of those 8 amazing years when the U.S. was still the moral leader of the free world and had a president who strove every day to be the best he could be and help us to likewise find greatness within ourselves.
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- Joseph Mineo
- 2018/07/07
Hope in a Troubling Time
It’s easy to get lost in the negativity of the news cycle. This book is a great way to break that habit.
Ben goes deeper than ever into Obama’s foreign policy operations in an easy to read, humanizing memoir. It’s easy to learn the facts of the Obama administration, but it’s harder to find a book on the people that made those feats possible. Really great read.