Ben Rhodes is more than just a leading voice in American politics. Through his work as a speech writer and advisor to former president Barack Obama, co-host of Pod Save the World, contributor for NBC News and MSNBC, co-chair of National Security Action, and author of the New York Times bestsellers After the Fall and The World as It Is, Rhodes has built an intimate understanding, and helped shape, our current political landscape. Now, Rhodes delves into the fierce arguments over how we define American identity, unpacking this complex history in his upcoming book, All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches. With an expertise developed through a decade of writing for Barack Obama, Rhodes analyzes historical speeches that seek to define who belongs, who holds power, and what democracy truly demands. Rhodes brings readers behind the scenes of these moments: how the speeches were written, who demanded them, what risks the speakers took, and how their words reverberated far beyond the room where they were first delivered. This unique book shares an insider's understanding of the two competing visions of the United States--one rooted in inheritance, hierarchy, and exclusion, and another grounded in equality, striving, pluralism, and belonging.
"An absorbing primer of the argument we can't escape, the history of a question our nation is still trying to answer, All We Say is--like its author--brilliant, generous, and wise. At a time of moral and political drift, Rhodes reminds us what American greatness actually sounds like, and what it means." - Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies
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"An absorbing primer of the argument we can't escape, the history of a question our nation is still trying to answer, All We Say is--like its author--brilliant, generous, and wise. At a time of moral and political drift, Rhodes reminds us what American greatness actually sounds like, and what it means." - Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies
Image Credit: Photo by Polly Irungu
Ben Rhodes is more than just a leading voice in American politics. Through his work as a speech writer and advisor to former president Barack Obama, co-host of Pod Save the World, contributor for NBC News and MSNBC, co-chair of National Security Action, and author of the New York Times bestsellers After the Fall and The World as It Is, Rhodes has built an intimate understanding, and helped shape, our current political landscape. Now, Rhodes delves into the fierce arguments over how we define American identity, unpacking this complex history in his upcoming book, All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches. With an expertise developed through a decade of writing for Barack Obama, Rhodes analyzes historical speeches that seek to define who belongs, who holds power, and what democracy truly demands. Rhodes brings readers behind the scenes of these moments: how the speeches were written, who demanded them, what risks the speakers took, and how their words reverberated far beyond the room where they were first delivered. This unique book shares an insider's understanding of the two competing visions of the United States--one rooted in inheritance, hierarchy, and exclusion, and another grounded in equality, striving, pluralism, and belonging.
"An absorbing primer of the argument we can't escape, the history of a question our nation is still trying to answer, All We Say is--like its author--brilliant, generous, and wise. At a time of moral and political drift, Rhodes reminds us what American greatness actually sounds like, and what it means." - Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies
Image Credit: Photo by Polly Irungu
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"An absorbing primer of the argument we can't escape, the history of a question our nation is still trying to answer, All We Say is--like its author--brilliant, generous, and wise. At a time of moral and political drift, Rhodes reminds us what American greatness actually sounds like, and what it means." - Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies
Image Credit: Photo by Polly Irungu
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