Benjamin Rhodes

For nearly ten 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 on the page 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.

a memoir of the Obama White House

The world as it is

Mr. Rhodes has evidently much sympathy for the life and labors of the early Quakers, and not being a member of that Society. He is free to judge impartially certain points in their singular history. The book supplies at once sketches of three leaders in early Quaker history and an informal manual of the rise and tenets of the Society.

Three Apostles of Quakerism: Popular Sketches of Fox, Penn and Barclay

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All You Need to Know about Being Psychic, Improving Psychic Ability, Mediumship, Clairvoyance, and More!

Psychic Development

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Lee H. Hamilton

The chairman and vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission describe the committee's work in investigating the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, discussing the conflicting demands of various interest groups, problems in gaining access to classified documents, political polarization, and the creation of the report. Reprint.

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