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A review by aueltschy
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton
2.0
Do not waste your money (or e-credits), time, or effort on this book. Allow me to give you the TL;DR version.
1) Trump is a giant man-child motivated by momentary whimsy and personal gain.
2) Bolton thinks Bolton is funny.
3) Every ally who encounters Bolton thinks he's the best thing since Betty White. Every enemy who encounters Bolton thinks he's the devil incarnate. So important!
4) Bolton regularly uses "democrat" as a slur, takes time out to say his numbers are wrong but he doesn't want to interrupt the narrative (interrupting his narrative), and goes out of his way to insult liberal readers for no real reason other than personal contempt.
5) He's so smart that he will use Scrabble-only terms one time in the book, and then never again, to show his breadth of knowledge. They are few and far between, seeming intentional to elevate the perception of his own mental prowess. It is not convincing.
Two stars for the inner look at the administration, otherwise it would have been one star as a self-aggrandizing political drive-by of Democrats as a party without anything substantial to hang that on- only a general dissatisfaction.
1) Trump is a giant man-child motivated by momentary whimsy and personal gain.
2) Bolton thinks Bolton is funny.
3) Every ally who encounters Bolton thinks he's the best thing since Betty White. Every enemy who encounters Bolton thinks he's the devil incarnate. So important!
4) Bolton regularly uses "democrat" as a slur, takes time out to say his numbers are wrong but he doesn't want to interrupt the narrative (interrupting his narrative), and goes out of his way to insult liberal readers for no real reason other than personal contempt.
5) He's so smart that he will use Scrabble-only terms one time in the book, and then never again, to show his breadth of knowledge. They are few and far between, seeming intentional to elevate the perception of his own mental prowess. It is not convincing.
Two stars for the inner look at the administration, otherwise it would have been one star as a self-aggrandizing political drive-by of Democrats as a party without anything substantial to hang that on- only a general dissatisfaction.