A classic coming-of-age story, about the journey from idealism to realism, told with candor and immediacy . . . [Ben Rhodes s] achievement is rare for a political memoir: He has written a humane and honorable book. The New York Times Book Review
More than any other White House memoirist, Rhodes is a creature of the man he served. The New Yorker
Insightful, funny, and moving, this is a beautifully observed, essential record of what it was like to be there. Samantha Power
Ben Rhodes is the author of the New York Times bestseller The World as It Is, co-host of Pod Save the World, a contributor for NBC News and MSNBC, and an adviser to former president Barack Obama.