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Genre/Form: | Autobiography Autobiographies Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | John R Bolton; Donald Trump; Donald Trump; John R Bolton; John R Bolton; Donald Trump |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John R Bolton |
ISBN: | 9781982148034 1982148039 9781982167349 1982167343 |
OCLC Number: | 1137548630 |
Description: | 577 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The long march to a West Wing corner office -- Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war -- America breaks free -- The Singapore sling -- A tale of three cities : summits in Brussels, London, and Helsinki -- Thwarting Russia -- Trump heads for the door in Syria and Afghanistan, and can't find it -- Chaos as a way of life -- Venezuela libre -- Thunder out of China -- Checking into the Hanoi Hilton, then checking out, and the Panmumjom playtime -- Trump loses his way, and then his nerve -- From the Afghanistan counterterrorism mission to the Camp David near miss -- The end of the idyll -- Epilogue. |
Responsibility: | John Bolton. |
Abstract:
As President Trump's National Security Advisor, Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened. After working in the Reagan and both Bush presidencies, he has a great eye for the Washington inside game. What Bolton saw with Trump astonished him: a President for whom getting re-elected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation. Here he shows a President addicted to chaos, who embraced our enemies and spurned our friends, and was deeply suspicious of his own government. -- adapted from jacket.
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"I can't believe I'm saying this: it's worse than I even imagined." - Stephen Colbert "As much as you think you know about the arrogance, vanity and sheer incompetence of Trump's years in the White House, Bolton's account will still astonish you... No wonder the White House was so determined to block this book." - David Ignatius, Washington Post "A scathing and revelatory account... indispensable, jaw-dropping, and specific...what a truth he offers us." - The New Yorker "Bolton's bombshell book shows it's still possible to be shocked by Trump's presidency" - The Guardian "Mr. Bolton's volume is the first tell-all memoir by such a high-ranking official who participated in major foreign policy events and has a lifetime of conservative credentials. It is a withering portrait of a president ignorant of even basic facts about the world, susceptible to transparent flattery by authoritarian leaders manipulating him and prone to false statements, foul-mouthed eruptions and snap decisions that aides try to manage or reverse." - The New York Times "The most substantive, critical dissection of the president from an administration insider... lays out a long series of jarring and troubling encounters between the president, his top advisers and foreign leaders." - Washington Post "A book full of damning details" - The Economist "Explosive" - Business Insider "Devastating portrait" - Telegraph "Eye-popping" - CNN "Jarring" - Jake Tapper, CNN "Shows the scale and depth of Trump's depravity and corruption." - The Atlantic "A service to the nation... There is no question that this book contains explosive revelations that could well have an impact on the election." - Thomas Wright, The Brookings Institute, The Atlantic "The details are damning." - Fareed Zakaria "The most devastating indictment yet." - Nicolle Wallace "A harrowing portrait" - Mother Jones "Absurdly entertaining" - Ben Domenech, The Federalist "A riveting read" - Trevor Noah, The Daily Show "The most important White House memoir yet to emerge from the Trump administration" - National Review Read more...


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- Bolton, John R.
- National Security Council (U.S.) -- Biography.
- United States. -- Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
- United States -- Foreign relations.
- Trump, Donald, -- 1946-
- Presidents -- United States -- Staff.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021.
- États-Unis -- Relations extérieures.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intergovernmental Organizations.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
- National Security Council (U.S.)
- Presidents -- Staff.
- Politics and government.
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- Trump, Donald 1946-
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