The
World as It Is: a Memoir of the Obama White House
I’m
done with Ben Rhodes’s book, more correctly entitled than as a narrative solely
about Obama. Rhodes was himself an actor during a period lasting nearly a
decade, as advisor and, above all, speech writer. But Obama does sit at the
center of the account and if I had
to choose one word to characterize him, I would pick thoughtful.
That
term is prompted particularly to distinguish Obama from his very unthoughtful
and improbable successor as US president, Donald Trump. While Rhodes makes only
infrequent statements of evaluation, he depicts a person of high ability and
character, as one who is likely to be picked by future historian as one of America’s best presidents.
While I don’t do book reviews. I recommend the Rhodes book to anyone interested
in the subject.
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