The World as It Is
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What’s it about?
A speechwriter's intimate, candid account of serving President Obama, revealing the impossible choices and moral compromises that define governing in a messy, violent world.
You’ll learn
- Governing is choosing between bad and worse
- The drone war's hidden psychic toll
- Fighting the Washington foreign policy 'Blob'
- Hope's limits in the Oval Office