The room where it happened : a White House memoir

Author

John R Bolton

Call Number

• 973.933 B6946 (CEN, EAS)

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Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.

Physical Description

577 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

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.

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.