Summary
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... Full description
- In the beginning
- Talk to Iran, get Bin Laden
- A community of fate
- The President is on board the aircraft
- Cairo
- Obama's war
- War and a peace prize
- The end of the beginning
- Egypt: The transition must begin now
- Libya
- Bin Laden: Life inside a secret
- Gathering clouds
- Reaction and action
- Life, death, and Benghazi
- A second term
- Young men wage war, old men make peace
- Clenched fists
- Red line
- Becoming a right-wing villain
- Race, Mandela, and Castro
- Russians and intervention
- Divine intervention
- Permanent war
- New beginnings
- Tapping the brakes
- The antiwar room
- Bombs and children
- Havana
- The stories people tell about you
- The stories we tell
- Information wars
- The end.