We also hope that listeners will find this series not just riveting but also valuable as the history of 9/11 and its aftermath continues to be written and understood.
We hope that history will not repeat itself. Back then, the Taliban gave Osama bin Laden safe harbor.
Twenty years ago, the FBI embedded with the military and helped them identify targets to dismantle al-Qaeda and capture suspects. The war in Afghanistan was a consequence of 9/11. The news of the Taliban’s sudden return to power in Afghanistan adds an unexpected importance to this story. In 1983, Rhodes tells us in the new book, he sat on his father’s shoulders and looked out at the Brooklyn Bridge. Many of the stories had never been told, much less heard together. After the Fall, Rhodes’s new auto-ethnographic memoir, is at once a chronicle of his postWhite House travels and a deeply personal reckoning with the end of the American century. The result is an original, sweeping, and active saga of the FBI’s 9/11 investigation-the biggest case in FBI history. Ultimately, Rhodes writes personally and powerfully about finding hope in the belief that looking squarely at where America has gone wrong can make clear how essential it is to fight for what America is supposed to be, for our own country and the entire world."In the lead-up to the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we asked a couple of dozen current and former FBI agents who were at the attack sites and around the world that day to tell us about the investigation they led, the terrorists they captured and interrogated, and the crime scenes they spent months digging through. The characters and issues that Rhodes illuminates paint a picture that shows us where we are today-from Barack Obama to a rising generation of international leaders from the authoritarian playbook endangering democracy to the flood of disinformation enabling authoritarianism. Along the way, he discusses the growing authoritarianism of Vladimir Putin, and his aggression towards Ukraine, with the foremost opposition leader in Russia, who was subsequently poisoned and imprisoned he profiled Hong Kong protesters who saw their movement snuffed out by China under Xi Jinping and America itself reached the precipice of losing democracy before giving itself a fragile second chance.
He visited dozens of countries, meeting with politicians and activists confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that are tearing America apart. “Vital reading for Americans and people anywhere who seek to understand what is happening ‘after the fall’ of the global system created by the United States” ( New York Journal of Books), from the former White House aide, close confidant to President Barack Obama, and author of The World as It IsĪt a time when democracy in the United States is endangered as never before, Ben Rhodes spent years traveling the world to understand why.
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