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jamescridland 's review for:
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
by John R. Bolton
I bailed after getting to about 35%. John Bolton is a fool, Trump is a bigger fool, and I realised this book told me nothing I don’t already know - that Trump is a vain, shallow, stupid man, and that Bolton knew this but got a job with him anyway.
This book is written in a turgid fashion, with Bolton keen to point out how clever he is (quoting in Latin, then explaining to us stupid people what the Latin meant), and how right he was (apparently he made no mistakes at all during his time in this administration). You get the feeling that Bolton would squeeze the excitement out of the moon landings if he could put a bit of Latin into a paragraph. I felt like I was wading through a poor essay from a thick person trying to prove himself clever.
We learn nothing from this book. We’ve read all this stuff before. It’s plain as day to anyone. Yet half of the US still wants to vote for this fool.
Bolton comes out of this worse than Trump, though. He’s helped this man achieve some ridiculous policies, so the left won’t like him. But he’s now published this, so the right won’t like him either now. Not sure who wins, other than a nice retirement check.
This book is written in a turgid fashion, with Bolton keen to point out how clever he is (quoting in Latin, then explaining to us stupid people what the Latin meant), and how right he was (apparently he made no mistakes at all during his time in this administration). You get the feeling that Bolton would squeeze the excitement out of the moon landings if he could put a bit of Latin into a paragraph. I felt like I was wading through a poor essay from a thick person trying to prove himself clever.
We learn nothing from this book. We’ve read all this stuff before. It’s plain as day to anyone. Yet half of the US still wants to vote for this fool.
Bolton comes out of this worse than Trump, though. He’s helped this man achieve some ridiculous policies, so the left won’t like him. But he’s now published this, so the right won’t like him either now. Not sure who wins, other than a nice retirement check.