The World According to Obama Official Ben Rhodes

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Ben Rhodes has served at the very pinnacle of politics in his role as deputy national security adviser in Barack Obama's Whitehouse and seen what it takes to run a democracy and take the tough decisions that are needed. But since leaving the Oval Office the world has seen a slide towards populism, nationalism and even authoritarianism. But how can this descent into dangerous political waters be stopped? After leaving politics Ben spent three years travelling the world speaking to leaders, activists and dissidents across dozens of countries. His new book After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made documents those journeys and he speaks to Dan about what he discovered, the truths we have to face about our societies and how the United States can set an example for the world.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome, welcome to Dan Snow's History In.
0:04.0	It gives me great pleasure to welcome back onto History Hit, a former deputy national
0:09.9	security adviser who served in the White House under President Barack Obama.
0:15.1	He has been wrote, he's been on before, with his excellent memoir of his years in the White
0:20.7	House.
0:21.7	Since he last heard him on History In, he's enjoyed meteoric success with crooked media
0:26.8	over in the USA. He's now a co-host of Pod Save the World. He's had his own series of
0:31.4	podcasts and he's written a book in which he travels the world after even the White House.
0:36.0	He travels the way, didn't go and work for a big corporation paying lots of money. He
0:39.4	traveled the world. He met with politicians, he met with activists. He tried to make sense
0:44.2	of this mad ride ruler. The thing we're all talking about at the moment, the fact that
0:47.6	democracy, liberalism is under threat in all these different countries around the world
0:53.2	from Europe, Asia to the USA itself. His book is called After the Fall, Being American
1:00.0	in the World We Made. He's been a general chat about what he's learned over the process
1:04.6	of making these podcasts series, writing his book, visiting, meeting all these people
1:08.6	like Alexian Navalny around the world, as well as all the experience he gained from his
1:13.2	time inside the White House.
1:16.3	Can Ben Rhodes help us make sense of what is going on? I hope so. It was great to have
1:22.0	him back on the pod. If you want to head over to history hit.tv, you're producing a
1:25.2	lot of new content over there at the moment. Obviously, new documentaries come up. The
1:27.8	big one we got coming out today, exciting moments, just days away. It's out time to coincide
1:32.0	with the 80th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, the single largest, the
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