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

Sorprende es saber que la politica exterior de Estados Unidos pueda quedar en manos de gente sin experiencia que llega. a la Casa Blanca y alcanzan puesto de gran responsabilidad. Algunos como Rhodes, eran simple redactores de discursos y en semanas tienen acceso a lo más importante d ela politica americana.El libro, es excesivamente prolijo, y tras o cuatro capítulo, es repetitivo. " el autor está en su casa, le llaman por la noche o le suena la blackberry. Algo ha pasado en el mundo y hay que prepararle una respuesta. a Obama. Esta se realiza y las cosas se enderezan." Asi , una y otra vez. Demasiado.

Many many accounts made of White House. Think of the boring eulogies of Camelot written by courtiers. Ben Rhodes is a very good writer and thankfully he didn't went to university and became (his view) the denizen 'the blob' that sits in Washington ponticate. He understood the unknown Obama in Chicago and became his friend. He wrote a million words of Obama's speeches throughout the world- in Cairo, in Britain, Norway Germany . He tells us that he read twelve times Obama's autobiography. He's a idealistic liberal. Many times he didn't agreed with Obama, a remarkable man who understand the nastiness and lack of non intelligent of his enemies. This is one of the best modern autobiographies. How can you written draft after drafts and listen the speeches you have made? Rhodes understood better that Obama couldn't fight again the new war of non-information coming from Russia. Bizarrely the White House didn't have a huge staff. The bloated bureaucracy didn't function. I recalled this book with Ben Rhodes holding a drink of whisky or beer didn't wore his socks or left his razor. His intelligence is on every page. This is a depressing view of the end of the half-era of Obama. A wonderful read. Enjoy how much people liked Obama even if they didn't really belief of the promise

Ich lese bereits zum 2.mal dieses grossartige buch; Ben Rhodes hat einen sehr überzeugende und anziehende Art, das Leben im Weissen Haus unter President Obama zu schildern

This book is an excellent insight into the Obama Presidency. It describes the difficulties of making real progress on matters such as Iran and Cuba in vivid detail from someone who was a key player on both issues. Most of all it reveals the "sausage machine" process of how foreign policy matters and diplomacy move. We were lucky to have President Obama as President of the United Staes and this is a reminder of how lucky.

Ben Rhodes book deals with his time during Obama's jurisdiction in a measured and insightful way.One can feel the pressure under which Obama struggled in dealing with an extremely antagonisticRepublican Party. In battling with the opposition he established the way the USA should be going incaring for those in poorer circumstances in the United States and Worldwide. May it come to fruitionwhen the USA comes to its senses post-Trump. Very good read.