?Que
deseas saber sobre el ala oeste de la Casa
blanca?. Todas las crisis internacionales de la
presidencia de Obama contadas desde dentro.

Ben
Rhodes era un aspirante a escritor que empezo a redactar discursos para un joven senador con ambiciones
presidenciales en 2006. Salio de la

casa Blanca diez anos mas tarde, tras haber vivido en primera linea de la politica internacional toda la convulsa
presidencia de Barack Obama.

Escrita con un gran talento
narrativo, esta obra es el extraordinario

retrato de un politico extraordinario, asi como la cronica de ocho
anos en los que un grupo de jovenes
brillantes intento cambiar el mundo para

acabar descubriendo lo resistente que es. Rhodes cuenta algunos de
los momentos mas conmovedores, tensos
e importantes de la administracion

Obama: la captura de Bin Laden, la respuesta a la Primavera Arabe, el acuerdo nuclear con Iran, las negociaciones
secretas con el gobierno cubano para
normalizar las relaciones, y la confrontacion del resurgimiento del nacionalismo y el
nativismo que culminaron con la eleccion de Donald Trump.

A la espera de las memorias de Obama, este es sin duda el mejor
libro sobre aquellos anos.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

From
one of Barack Obama’s closest aides comes a revelatory behind-the-scenes
account of his presidency-and how idealism can confront harsh reality and
still survive-in the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.‘s A Thousand Days:
John F. Kennedy in the White House.

For nearly ten years, Ben Rhodes saw almost everything that happened at the
center of the Obama administration-first as a speechwriter, then as deputy
national security advisor, and finally as a multipurpose aide and close
collaborator. He started every morning in the Oval Office with the
President’s Daily Briefing, traveled the world with Obama, and was at the
center of some of the most consequential and controversial moments of the
presidency. Now he tells the full story of his partnership-and, ultimately,
friendship-with a man who also happened to be a historic president of the
United States.

Rhodes was not your typical presidential confidant, and this is not your
typical White House memoir. Rendered in vivid, novelistic detail by someone
who was a writer before he was a staffer, this is a rare look inside the most
poignant, tense, and consequential moments of the Obama presidency-waiting
out the bin Laden raid in the Situation Room, responding to the Arab Spring,
reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran, leading secret negotiations with the
Cuban government to normalize relations, and confronting the resurgence of
nationalism and nativism that culminated in the election of Donald
Trump.

In The World as It Is, Rhodes shows what it was like to be there-from the
early days of the Obama campaign to the final hours of the presidency. It is
a story populated by such characters as Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Hillary
Clinton, Bob Gates, and-above all-Barack Obama, who comes to life on the page
in moments of great urgency and disarming intimacy. This is the most vivid
portrayal yet of Obama’s worldview and presidency, a chronicle of a political
education by a writer of enormous talent, and an essential record of the
forces that shaped the last decade.Advance praise for The World as It Is:

Ben Rhodes is one of the most brilliant minds and powerful storytellers
I’ve ever known. In The World as It Is, he doesn’t just bring you inside the
room for key moments of Obama’s presidency, he captivates you with the
journey of an idealistic young staffer who becomes the president’s closest
friend and advisor-a journey that both cynics and believers will find
riveting and hopeful. -Jon Favreau