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After the fall : being American in the world we've made / Ben Rhodes.

Rhodes, Ben, 1977- (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781984856050
ISBN: 1984856057
Physical Description: xvii, 358 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Random House, [2021]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The authoritarian playbook. The currents of history ; Freedom's high-water mark ; "Take our country back": from Trianon to the Tea Party ; Identity politics ; Opposition ; The liberal order: an elongated reason cycle? -- The counterrevolution. The house of Soviets ; The song is the same ; Putin and Obama: two worldviews ; The system is rigged ; The Crimean war ; Democratic nationalism ; A war without violence -- The Chinese dream. Meet the new boss ; The outlier ; The Chinese dream ; Make China great again ; One country, two systems ; "The narrative of liberalism and democracy collapsed" ; Power doesn't give up without a fight -- Who we are: being American. Who we are ; We do big things ; Forever war ; The ocean liner ; Fight the smears ; After the fall.