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74/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Ben Rhodes
Publisher:
Random House
Date:
June 1, 2021
The author of The World as It Is and former speechwriter for President Barack Obama offers a mix of personal history and reportage, exploring the extent of America's influence on the world as an exporter of unbridled capitalism and post-9/11 militarism.
What The Reviewers Say
In the book’s most appealing passages, Rhodes sits down with people very much like himself, chastened idealists who have come to know the world as it is but refuse to conform to its demands.
Little of the analysis is new or original, but it is certainly elegantly expressed.
Here is vital reading for Americans and people anywhere who seek to understand what is happening 'after the fall' of the global system created by the United States and shaped increasingly by China under Xi Jinping. The book’s analyses of recent events and apparent trends are based on facts, as the author finds them, presented in an offhand, nearly conversational manner. Other experts may disagree with the interpretations of Ben Rhodes but must take account of the realities he describes. A trimmed-down version of After the Fall could serve as an eye-opening supplementary text for AP, college, or adult ed courses on world affairs..
... lucidly written.
