![]() ![]() Obama used his speeches as a way of formulating his thoughts, painting the bigger picture that placed his day-to-day decisions in context. This fact allows those critics-who range from Fox News types to Washington’s foreign policy establishment-to dismiss Rhodes, and by extension Obama, as a mere storyteller, someone more interested in spinning a yarn than dealing with the harsh realities of a dangerous world.īut as Rhodes’s memoir of his eight years at the White House shows, storytelling plays a vital role in government. ![]() There is a biographical detail about Ben Rhodes, the former foreign affairs adviser to Barack Obama, that his critics often mention: he has an MFA in fiction writing. Ben Rhodes and Barack Obama on Air Force One in 2012 © PA ![]()
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