ianmandt 's review for:

The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton

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As other reviewers have said this book is an uncomfortably similar to a former Hitler official releasing a tell-all memoir trying to justify his participation in a corrupt, and criminal regime. Sure, there is some interesting information here but broadly all it does is make clearer two facts. One, that trump leads by whim and personal feelings rather than national interest and two, that he is surrounded by yes men who don’t have the courage or humanity to see their complicity for what it is. Any sane American already knows these things.

Also: don’t buy this book. Get it from the library like I did (or for free online) if you really do want to read it. Bolton doesn’t deserve anything for his complicity.