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

Ben Rhodes

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The book was highlighted as a fantastic memoir that offered a personal, insider view of President Obama's foreign policy and the inner workings of the White House. Host Jon Favreau, along with Dan Pfeiffer, praised its thoughtful narrative and repeatedly urged listeners to purchase it, noting its less self‑aggrandizing tone compared to other political memoirs. The overall consensus was that it provided one of the best perspectives on the Obama years and was highly recommended for the audience.

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Episode: “The clouds have not lifted.”

Jon Favreau described Ben Rhodes' book as 'fantastic' and one of his favorite Obama-related books, mentioning its paperback release on April 2nd, 2019.

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The paperback version of Ben Rhodes' book, The World As It Is, went on sale Tuesday, April 2nd. It is a fantastic book, one of my favorite Obama books. Go buy yourself Ben's book if you haven't already.

Episode: "It's Cohen down for real."

It was discussed as a fantastic series and featured as a central theme in a series of podcast episodes. It was a subject explored in the latest episode of Crooked Conversations.

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It was a fantastic series on Crooked Convos.

Episode: “Wild Wild GOP.”

It was written as a more personal and less self-aggrandizing political memoir than others, including details about the author's personal and professional experiences working for Barack Obama.

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I mean we read it but tell the audience about it. Why is the why'd you write it? The main message you're trying to get across there

I do think that you and this isn't shouldn't be surprising but you capture how Barack Obama thinks and Sort of what he was thinking during all these moments of the presidency better than anyone else.

Everyone should go buy the book and read it It is it is very very excellent memoir

I'm just behind Newt on the list So if you guys can help me get up there at least get closer to Newt

Everybody should also of course buy Dan's book and and people need to buy my book before the Pfeiffer juggernaut comes down the tracks

Episode: “Don’t tweet, vote.”

It was discussed as a fantastic new memoir by Ben Rhodes, written after working in the White House, which was described as a feat of physical and mental endurance.

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Tommy's new episode of Pod Save the World is up. It's a conversation with our pal Ben Rhodes about his new memoir, The World As It Is. It's fantastic. It's up now. Everyone go buy the book. You will enjoy it very much.

But first I wanted to say as someone who has recently written a book, Ben's book is so good and I cannot imagine the fact, not only that he wrote it and it's a beautiful book, which you can only expect from Ben because Ben is a beautiful writer.

This was in I think the New York Review. This will be the best view of the Obama presidency from anyone other than Barack Obama, in my view. Ben was there for all the big moments and he writes about it beautifully.

Episode: “We call BS.”

Ben Rhodes's book, about Obama's foreign policy and Ben's personal experience working with Obama, was mentioned and is available for pre-order on Amazon.

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We have another book that's coming out from the Obama family and the Crooked Media family, Ben Rhodes.

Ben Rhodes has a book coming out on June 12th, 2018 but it's available for pre-order now on Amazon and the book is called The World As It Is and it's sort of about Obama's foreign policy over the last eight years he was in office but also about Ben's personal story about working for Obama which he did since the early days of the 2008 campaign when I desperately needed another writer to help out and was suggested Ben Rhodes, smart foreign policy guy and I soon saw he was one of the most brilliant writers and best people that I could have ever hired.

Yeah I would say this, I can't imagine anyone who saw more over the 10 years of the Obama decade of 2007-2017 than Ben.

Yeah. He is a beautiful writer. How they always says that every Ben Rhodes speech finds a way to make her cry.

I have pre-ordered my copy and I would encourage everyone to do so. It's going to be, I think when people look back on the Obama years many many many years from now Ben's book will be a very important part of the story.

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It was mentioned that the book was recently released in paperback and was a memoir about Ben's time in the Obama White House. The title was derived from a phrase Barack Obama frequently used.

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Congratulations on your book, which is recently out in paperback, The World As It Is.

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It was mentioned that the book was recently released in paperback and was a memoir about Ben's time in the Obama White House. The title was derived from a phrase Barack Obama frequently used.

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Congratulations on your book, which is recently out in paperback, The World As It Is.

Actually, Obama used to have a phrase that he used again and again, which is that in order to pursue the world as it should be, you have to see the world as it is.

But actually, the point of it is if you want to be an idealist, you have to see the world as it is in order to pursue the world as it should be.

And actually, I didn't know this, but when Michelle Obama wrote Becoming, she says that like on her first date, Barack Obama used that line.

Congratulations again on the book, which continues to do great. The World As It Is, much better titled than As the World Turns.

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