Product Description

The son of a Baltimore fireman and the first person in his family to go to university, with scholarships to Yale College and Yale Law School, John Bolton candidly recounts his sixteen month tenure as US Ambassador to the United Nations, his Senate confirmation battle, and the highlights of his career in public service in two prior Republican administrations. In this explosive book, Bolton describes why practices such as the Oil for Food scandal, procurement fraud and sexual exploitation and abuse by U.N. peacekeepers are explained away or ignored. He also details how he made sure that U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan did not run for a third term and that another 'secular Pope' did not succeed him and why no country except the United States has done much about ending the genocide in Darfur. With a no-holds barred approach, John Bolton provides a unique insight into the workings of this monolithic institution and America's place within it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #257626 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 496 pages

Customer Reviews

Book that hits home with the truth
This book says exactly what the left don't want to believe, if you want a true to the point account of what's going on in the world, then buy this book.

candid and up to date
Starts with Barry Goldwater's 1964 hustings speech....... "Nikita Khruschev you are wrong, our children will not live under communism, your children will live under freedom!" Of course Goldwater was crushed, despite the vote of Bob Dylan. Nevertheless, the sanity and coherence of guys like John Bolton have been at the heart of American politics for the last few decades and here he sets out his experience and it is interesting. The inglorious appearances of most British politicians like Jack Straw are poignant (for a Brit reader) just for the fact that they are such non-entities. Untrustworthy and duplicitous. I suddenly realised why we're Little Britain to many people now.

Disappointing
John Bolton obviously considers himself to be intellectually strong and humorous but fails on both counts in this book. His arguments are quite unbalanced as evidenced by his tirade against Iran's aspirations for nuclear capability without any mention of the fact that Israel has had offensive nuclear capability for many years which inevitably adds to instability in the Middle East. Mr Bolton's attempts at being funny invariably fall flat and merely highlight a penchant for juvenile sarcasm.