One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General

One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General

by William P. Barr
One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General

One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General

by William P. Barr

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780063158627
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 03/08/2022
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 608
Sales rank: 164,754
File size: 37 MB
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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.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

Part I Early Years

Chapter 1 Planning Ahead 21

Chapter 2 A Shift in Plans 59

Part II Bush Years

Chapter 3 Top Egghead 83

Chapter 4 Second in Command 114

Chapter 5 Leading the Department 153

Chapter 6 A Whirlwind Year 198

Part III Interlude

Chapter 7 Return to Civilian Life 235

Part IV Trump Years

Introduction 261

Chapter 8 Foreign Schemes and Domestic Lies 292

Chapter 9 Into the Storm 330

Chapter 10 One Thing Done, Another Begun 393

Chapter 11 Eating Grenades 435

Chapter 12 "I Believe You'll Be Impeached" 489

Chapter 13 Upholding Fairness, Even for Rascals 523

Chapter 14 Bringing Justice to Violent Predators 550

Chapter 15 Fighting the Drug Cartels 601

Chapter 16 Securing Religious Liberty 629

Chapter 17 Protecting National Security 670

Chapter 18 Taking On Big Tech 713

Chapter 19 Facing the Covid Pandemic 750

Chapter 20 Cops, Race, and the Big Lie 778

Chapter 21 Protest and Mayhem 806

Chapter 22 Trump vs. Trump 854

Chapter 23 Election and Aftermath 891

Acknowledgments 947

Photo Credits 949

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