After the fall : being American in the world we've made
Rhodes, Benjamin2021
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Click and Collect for After the fall : being American in the world we've madeIn 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in America, Rhodes decided to look outwards. Over the next three years, he travelled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, activists, and dissidents confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that was tearing America apart. Along the way, a Russian opposition leader he spends time with is poisoned, the Hong Kong protesters he comes to know see their movement snuffed out, and America itself reaches the precipice of losing democracy before giving itself a second chance. After the Fall is a hugely ambitious and essential work of discovery. Throughout, Rhodes comes to realize how much America's fingerprints are on a world it helped to shape- through the excesses of the post-Cold War embrace of unbridled capitalism, post-9/11 nationalism and militarism, mania for technology and social media, and the racism that shaped the backlash to the Obama presidency. At the same time, he learns from a diverse set of characters - from Obama to rebels to a rising generation of leaders - how looking squarely at where America has gone wrong only makes it more essential to fight for what America is supposed to be - for itself, and for the entire world.
After the fall : being American in the world we've made / Ben Rhodes.
Rhodes, Benjamin, author
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.©2021
xv, 358 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
9781526642042978152664204297815266420429781526642042
909.831
English
World politics -- 21st centuryGlobalization -- Political aspects -- United StatesNationalism -- United States -- History -- 21st centuryPolitical corruption -- Hungary -- History -- 21st centuryPolitical corruption -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 21st centuryPolitical corruption -- China -- History -- 21st centuryGlobal Financial Crisis, 2008-2009United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-
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