The World as It Is : A Memoir of the Obama White House

from wagner.sarah35

Reading this book was sort of a like reliving the ten years of Obama's candidacy and presidency with the benefit of hindsight. Ben Rhodes worked on the Obama campaign and then served as deputy national security adviser for much of Obama's presidency. This book offers an excellent overview of the ...

from gmmartz

'The World as it Is', by Obama's speechwriter Ben Rhodes, is political non-fiction at its best: well-written, fast-paced, timely, and with enough nuggets of inside information to make it feel like you're getting the real deal. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Rhodes seems like a truly good guy who finds ...

from Susan.Macura

Ben Rhodes is a wonderful storyteller. In this insightful tale, he brings the reader on a trip through ten years with Barack Obama, from his campaign for president to his eight years in office. As a person who was a member of Obama's inner circle for those ten years, he is able to provide the rea...

from karieh

I picked up this book as an escape - as a way to go back in the past before some of our nation elected our 45th president. Daily events, daily human rights abuses and nearly hourly crushing of the norms and rules of democracy can become crushing to one's soul - and this seemed a way to both retre...

from breic

I don't really understand the point of this book. Everybody today knows the history, and we don't need a play-by-play. Ten years from now, it might be better; then it might find an audience that doesn't already know the story, and, more importantly, those ten years would give Rhodes more time to ...