Looking back in anger

摘要

Surely even John Bolton cannot be quite as curmudgeonly as this? In a memoir devoted mainly to his nearly six years of government service under President George Bush, America's former ambassador to the United Nations has a bad word for almost everyone who dared stand up to him. This is odd. One of his attractions has always been his willingness to argue it out with his opponents: when other neocons went missing in action, he defended the cause. Yet in this book, this undeniably talented man of principle often comes across as a domineering bully.