After the Fall

A New York Times Bestselling Author

Part memoir and part reportage, After the Fall is a hugely ambitious and essential work of discovery. In his travels, Ben Rhodes comes to realize how much America's fingerprints are on a world we helped to shape, through our post-Cold War embrace of unbridled capitalism and our post-9/11 nationalism and militarism; our mania for technology and social media; and the racism that fueled the backlash to America's first Black president. At the same time, Rhodes learns from the stories of a diverse set of characters - from Barack Obama himself to Cuban rebels to a rising generation of international leaders - that looking squarely at where America has gone wrong makes clear how essential it is to fight for what America is supposed to be, for our own country and the entire world.