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The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

John Bolton

Did the experienced advisers around Trump hold him in check, as Washington believes, or did their failures make later policy harder, as this former adviser argues?

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Author
John Bolton

Why read it

  • You will get a simple test for any advisory team: does it lay out the options, then make sure the decision is carried out
  • You will weigh one insider's case that advisers who put themselves first fed a leader's suspicion and made honest advice harder
  • You will learn to question the popular story that wise advisers held a difficult leader in check until they left

Who it is for

  • A policy staffer who wants to know how advice reaches a president
  • A voter who values firsthand accounts but reads them with care
  • A manager who must brief a hard to predict boss

Contents

  1. CHAPTER 1 THE LONG MARCH TO A WEST WING CORNER OFFICE
  2. CHAPTER 2 CRY “HAVOC!” AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR
  3. CHAPTER 3 AMERICA BREAKS FREE
  4. CHAPTER 4 THE SINGAPORE SLING
  5. CHAPTER 5 A TALE OF THREE CITIES—SUMMITS IN BRUSSELS, LONDON, AND HELSINKI
  6. Brussels
  7. London
  8. Helsinki
  9. CHAPTER 6 THWARTING RUSSIA
  10. Defenestrating the INF Treaty
  11. Protecting US Elections from Acts of War
  12. CHAPTER 7 TRUMP HEADS FOR THE DOOR IN SYRIA AND AFGHANISTAN, AND CAN’T FIND IT
  13. Syria: Lawrence of Arabia, Call Your Office
  14. Afghanistan: A Forward Defense
  15. CHAPTER 8 CHAOS AS A WAY OF LIFE
  16. CHAPTER 9 VENEZUELA LIBRE
  17. CHAPTER 10 THUNDER OUT OF CHINA
  18. CHAPTER 11 CHECKING INTO THE HANOI HILTON, THEN CHECKING OUT, AND THE PANMUNJOM PLAYTIME
  19. CHAPTER 12 TRUMP LOSES HIS WAY, AND THEN HIS NERVE
  20. CHAPTER 13 FROM THE AFGHANISTAN COUNTERTERRORISM MISSION TO THE CAMP DAVID NEAR MISS
  21. CHAPTER 14 THE END OF THE IDYLL
  22. CHAPTER 15 EPILOGUE
  23. Photographs

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