Bolton’s Revenge

John Bolton’s 500-page tell-all, “The Room Where It Happened” recounting the bitter details of his embattled eighteenth months as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor is out, and the reviews are in.  The New York Times describes the mustachioed malcontent as betraying “a festering obsession with his enemies” and his contribution to the crowded anti-Trump genre as “bloated with self-importance, even though what it mostly recounts is Bolton not being able to accomplish very much.”
The New Yorker calls Bolton’s hatchet job on a long list of former colleagues, “Washington score-settling on an epic scale.”  ...