One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General

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The former attorney general provides a candid account of his historic tenures serving two vastly different presidents, George H.W. Bush and Donald J. Trump.

William Barr’s first tenure as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush was largely the result of chance, while his second tenure under President Donald Trump a deliberate and difficult choice. In this candid memoir, Barr takes readers behind the scenes during seminal moments of the 1990s, from the LA riots to Pan Am 103 and Iran Contra. Thirty years later, Barr faced an unrelenting barrage of issues, such as Russiagate, the COVID outbreak, civil unrest, the impeachments, and the 2020 election fallout. One Damn Thing After Another is vivid, forthright, and essential not only to understanding the Bush and Trump legacies, but also how both men viewed power and justice at critical junctures of their presidencies.

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3.4
28 reviews
Cyd Oman
June 24, 2022
Right off Barr confesses anger by the attempts of Democrats to "delegitimize" Trump's election. To be honest, Barr should have made clear the opposing candidate EARNED 3,000 MORE VOTES than Trump but didn't get the job. He should have acknowledged the impact Russian interference had on the losing candidate's chance's, an attack well proven by Mueller AND accepted by Republicans. He should have mentioned the voters never knew what his own Justice Department knew until it was too late. What else could any fair minded person expect from Democratic voters? Silence? Nothing we have learned about Republican commitment to dominate all politics, nothing we have learned about Republican unconstitutional acts to protect Trump and satisfy his cupidity, nothing we have seen in Trump's actions to this day make the 2016 election results die a natural death. Trump's actions forbid it. The people know what we saw, heard, learned. Liberal means "a reader". We READ. We bother to read.
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Seth
March 15, 2022
I have the physical copy of this book. It sits on my shelf between Robert C. Byrd's book "Losing America," and Barack Obama's book "A Promised Land." Overall, while lengthy, "One Damn Thing After Another" is a really good read with a bit of humor in it. It's heavy on the politics and history, too, which means you get a good education from it. It's worth picking up if you're into politics. It gives you an in-depth feel for what the political atmosphere was like between the administrations of 41 and 45, and it does it well.
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Shaun williams
April 6, 2022
This guy gets it I mean it's always one darn thing after another. I stubbed my toe and then I lost my job... one darn thing after another
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About the author

A native New Yorker, William P. Barr earned his A.B. and M.A. degrees at Columbia University and his J.D. at George Washington University, after which he spent a decade practicing law at a Washington firm, interrupted by a stint serving in the Reagan White House. President George H. W. Bush successively appointed Barr Assistant Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, and, finally, the 77th Attorney General. Barr retired in 2008 after fifteen years as general counsel of GTE Corporation and its successor company, Verizon, after which he served on a number of corporate boards and consulted for corporate clients. Barr agreed to serve as the 85th Attorney General for the last two years of President Trump's term.

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