Ben Rhodes
Ben Rhodes is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, co-host of Pod Save the World, a contributor to MSNBC, and the author of two New York Times bestsellers—After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We Made and The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House—as well as the upcoming book All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches.
In All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches, Ben Rhodes tells the story of fifteen speeches—some iconic, others long forgotten—which have both shaped and reflected the argument Americans have been having from our founding to the intense divisions of our time. What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Times bestselling author and one of President Barack Obama’s former speechwriters.
From 2009 to 2017, he served as Deputy National Security Advisor and speechwriter to President Barack Obama, participating in all the President's key foreign policy decisions. His work has also been published in The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, and Foreign Affairs.