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Ben Rhodes is a writer on U.S. and global politics. A contributor to the New York Times and MSNOW, and co-host of Pod Save the World, Ben has authored two New York Times bestsellers—After the Fall and The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House. His latest book, All We Say, is a sweeping look at the battle over American identity and the questions, “What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide?”. He previously served as Deputy National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama.
“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
One of the definitive journalists of this era, Jelani Cobb is an acclaimed historian, staff writer at the New Yorker, and Dean of Columbia Journalism School. His books include To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic and The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress. His newest, Three or More is a Riot, is a collection of narrative journalism, criticism, and penetrating profiles that capture the crises, characters, movements, and art of an era – and helps readers understand what might be coming next.
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