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Get the Summary of Ben Rhodes's After the Fall in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they had worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in America, Rhodes decided to look outward. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians,...
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#1 In 2001, the Taliban were still extremely fierce. They drove into the heart of the enemy camp, inside the high walls and inner courtyards of the Qala-i-Janghi, the House of War.
#2 I was among a group of Western journalists who jostled forward as the Taliban car door opened.
#3 In 2001, the Taliban had come close to achieving their goal of establishing...
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#1 The Knights Templar lost their primary purpose in life after the fall of Acre in 1291, which was to protect the Holy Land. They were arrested in 1307 and executed the following year. The Order of the Temple was dissolved by the Pope in 1312.
#2 The Kingdom of Scotland was a unified Celtic kingdom that was established in 1124, after the Picts were subsumed by...
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#1 The two men who got on that flight from Moscow to London were actually spies working for a foreign power. They were career officers with Russian military intelligence. Their real names were Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin. They had come to London to murder someone.
#2 The GRU, by contrast, was global. It dealt with external threats. Its mandate was everywhere....
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#1 In the film Children of Men, it is difficult to imagine a world without capitalism. The world that it projects seems more like an extrapolation or exacerbation of ours than an alternative to it.
#2 The film connects with the suspicion that the end has already come, and that the future will only be re-permutation and re-iteration. It is clear that the theme of sterility...
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#1 In 1999, Boris Yeltsin, Russia's president, was very ill. He had suffered several heart attacks and had undergone open-heart surgery soon after he was elected for a second term in 1996. He was not half the politician he had been, and his popularity rating was dipping into the single digits.
#2 After the fall of communism in Russia, the country was battered, traumatized,...
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#1 Kenyon College is a small, liberal arts school in Ohio. It was given a $75 million donation in 2017 to build a new West Quad, which included a new admissions office. The school is known for its rich and diverse student body, but one of its neighbors is the last remaining source of good blue-collar jobs in the area.
#2 The students at Kenyon College, a small liberal...