11 Top memoir books like The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton

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The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

By: John Bolton

3.15

Format: 588 pages, Kindle Edition

As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room …

"All this confused press coverage reveals both the inconsistencies within Trump’s own thinking, and reporting based on second- and third-hand sources, exacerbated under a President who spent a disproportionate share of his time watching his Administration being covered in the press. It is difficult beyond description to pursue a complex policy in a contentious part of the world when the policy is subject to instant modification based on the boss’s perception of how inaccurate and often-already-outdated information is reported by writers who don’t have the Administration’s best interests at heart in the first place. It was like making and executing policy inside a pinball machine, not the West Wing of the White House."

-John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

If you liked the memoir plot in The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

By: Charles Krauthammer

4.23

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

 From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"Every week 10,000 tons of food, medicine, and other humanitarian supplies are sent by Israel to Gaza."

-Charles Krauthammer, Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

"Israel is not just any small country. It is the only small country - the only country, period - whose neighbors publicly declare its very existence an affront to law, morality and religion and make i…"

-Charles Krauthammer, Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

2. Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace

By: Jim Newton , Leon Panetta

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring and revelatory autobiography of the defense secretary and CIA director who led the in… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction

3. A Journey: My Political Life

By: Tony Blair

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

In 1997, the biggest Labour victory in history swept England, ending eighteen years of Conservative… read more

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4. What Happened

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.50

Format: 191 pages,

"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I w… read more

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5. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

By: Jim Sciutto

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Peril

By: Bob Woodward

4.09

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

The book covers the end of the Trump presidency and the early months of the Biden presidency. Th… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Graham said, "I can get an affidavit tomorrow saying the world is flat."

-Bob Woodward, Peril

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7. Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump

By: Michael Cohen

4.09

Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition

11 hours, 50 minutes This book almost didn’t see the light of day as government officials tried… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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8. Fear: Trump in the White House

By: Bob Woodward

3.87

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodw… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"He’s a fucking moron,"

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

"When Trump called Mexicans “rapists"

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

"Mr. President, you've got to buy some democrats," Graham said. The good news is they come cheap."

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

"For Mr. Trump, though, bringing in Mr. Bannon was the political equivalent of ordering comfort food."

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

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9. A Warning

By: Anonymous

3.93

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior offic… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Legislators, regardless of party, have an obligation to monitor the executive branch. They should do so fairly and respectfully, but above all, they should do so."

-Anonymous, A Warning

"In the history of American democracy, we have had undisciplined presidents. We have had inexperienced presidents. We have had amoral presidents. Rarely if ever before have we had them all at once."

-Anonymous, A Warning

"Republicans gave the keys to the kingdom to a man who paid hush money to shut up a porn star he'd been sleeping with while married to his third wife, who'd recently given birth to their son. Are we s…"

-Anonymous, A Warning

"I was wrong about the "quiet resistance" inside the Trump administration. Unelected bureaucrats and cabinet appointees were never going to steer Donald Trump in the right direction in the long run, o…"

-Anonymous, A Warning

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10. Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

By: Adam Schiff

4.52

Format: 537 pages, Kindle Edition

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Rage

By: Bob Woodward

4.17

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency from Bob … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Trump is the wrong man for the job."

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Cohn offered one more argument against steel tariffs. "We're not a steel-producing nation. We're a good-producing nation. If we increase the price of steel, out goods become overprices and we can't c…"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Many foreign policy leaders had said that Trump gave Kim (Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea) too much by agreeing to meet without formal, written conditions. "So, have you given Kim too much power…"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Kushner said that Scott Adam's approach could be applied to Trump's recent February 4 State of the Union speech when he had claimed, "Our economy is the best it has ever been." The economy was indeed…"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

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12. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

By: Mary L. Trump

3.82

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, M… read more

Similar categories in Mary L. Trump's Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man book and John Bolton's The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America

By: Philip Rucker

4.10

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive insider narrative and the most fully characterised account yet of the chaos, scandal… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

By: James Comey

4.10

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Then there were the baffling, unnecessary lies. At one point, for example, the president told me that chief of staff Reince Priebus didn’t know we were meeting, which seemed incredible. The chief of …"

-James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

"The more stressful the job, the more intentional I've always been about helping my team members find joy in our work. Laughter is the outward manifestation of joy, so I believe if I'm doing it right,…"

-James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

"Ethical leaders care deeply about those they lead, and offer them honesty and decency, commitment and their own sacrifice. They have a confidence that breeds humility. Ethical leaders know their own …"

-James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

"All of us struggle to realize something Patrice spent years telling me, as I took on one position or another: "It's not about you, dear." She often needed to remind me that, whatever people were feel…"

-James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

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15. The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

By: John Bolton

3.15

Format: 588 pages, Kindle Edition

As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"All this confused press coverage reveals both the inconsistencies within Trump’s own thinking, and reporting based on second- and third-hand sources, exacerbated under a President who spent a disprop…"

-John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

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16. Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

By: H.R. McMaster

4.12

Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times  Bestseller Now with new text from McMaster addressing the January 2021 assault on t… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Поки вони підривають школи для дівчаток в Афганістані, їхні діти ходять до приватних шкіл."

-H.R. McMaster, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

"Освіта життєво важлива не лише для того, щоб громадяни розпізнавали небезпеки російських дезінформаційних кампаній, а й щоб відновилася довіра до демократичних принципів, інституцій і процесів."

-H.R. McMaster, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

"The president and many of those who served him were sympathetic to the New Left interpretation of foreign affairs, one that considers so-called Western capitalist imperialism as the primary cause of …"

-H.R. McMaster, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

"Consistency and will are, therefore, important dimensions of strategic competence. But our will is diminished. As our foreign policies swung from over-optimism to resignation, identity politics inter…"

-H.R. McMaster, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

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17. The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America

By: Jim Sciutto

4.10

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Are we losing a war few of us realize we’re fighting? Jim Sciutto, CNN’s Chief National Security … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady

By: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

3.23

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Galas, Stephanie … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times

By: Mark T. Esper

3.88

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking de… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump by Peter Strzok

20. Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump

By: Peter Strzok

4.36

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

The FBI veteran behind the Russia investigation draws on decades of experience hunting foreign agen… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I also cannot conceive of a sadder testament to Trump’s America: fringe elements of a nation, governed by violent invective and vindictive fury. The President’s vitriol posed a physical threat to his…"

-Peter Strzok, Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump

"Mueller may have shuttered his office. DOJ may have declined various prosecutions, although, thankfully several investigations continue. Men and women vigilant to national security threats may have b…"

-Peter Strzok, Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump

"By the same token, people today are resistant to the notion that by sharing dubious stories on Facebook, they're furthering the goals of a foreign adversary. Many people, in fact seem to resent the s…"

-Peter Strzok, Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump

"We could only hope that Trump’s restraint, deliberate or unwitting, would continue, and although he might be tempted to interfere yet again in the investigations into him, our commander in chief woul…"

-Peter Strzok, Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump

Cover of Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth by Brian Stelter

21. Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth

By: Brian Stelter

4.08

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

The urgent and untold story of the collusion between Fox News and Donald Trump from the New York Ti… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I'm writing this book as a citizen; as an advocate for factual journalism; and as a new dad who thinks about what kind of world my children are going to inherit. This story is about a rot at the core…"

-Brian Stelter, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth

13 Top audiobook books like The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton

Transform Your Habits

Peril

Bob Woodward

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Fear: Trump in the White House

Bob Woodward

3.87

Transform Your Habits

A Warning

Anonymous

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

Adam Schiff

4.52

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20 best-selling history books like Rage by Bob Woodward

Transform Your Habits

Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

Joshua Green

3.77

Transform Your Habits

All the President’s Men

Bob Woodward , Carl Bernstein

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

Jonathan Karl

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

4.60

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