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Book Discussion with Author Ben Rhodes

Tue. Jul 20, 2021
5:30 — 6:30 PM CDT

Virtual webinar

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Join CEG and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore for a discussion with author Ben Rhodes on his new book, After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made. He will be joined in conversation by CEG Director William Howell.

About the book: Part memoir and part reportage, After the Fall is a hugely ambitious work of discovery. In his travels, Ben Rhodes comes to realize how much America’s fingerprints are on a world we helped to shape, through our post–Cold War embrace of unbridled capitalism and our post-9/11 nationalism and militarism; our mania for technology and social media; and the racism that fueled the backlash to America’s first Black president. At the same time, Rhodes learns from the stories of a diverse set of characters—from Barack Obama himself to Cuban rebels to a rising generation of international leaders—that looking squarely at where America has gone wrong makes clear how essential it is to fight for what America is supposed to be, for our own country and the entire world.