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America in the WorldBook

by Robert B. Zoellick

Who uses, recommends or left America in the World, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Nadia Schadlow
Nadia Schadlow is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and served as a deputy national security adviser during Trump’s first term.
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Um although I am reading right now a book I think published two years ago by Robert Zelic called America in the World. It's a really it's a it's a great book about America's diplomatic history. And um it's nice because each each chapter is short. So for those of you who like to read, you know, 10 pages before bed, it's perfect. You can actually feel like you've accomplished something.

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “I Asked a Former Trump Official to Justify This War” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-nadia-schadlow.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

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Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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