The best part of this book is undoubtedly Max (her real name is Madeleine Maxwell). Suddenly there is danger from other time travelers and a sort-of political coup at St. But you're never quite sure what it's building up to until about halfway through the novel, when Max and her partner travel to the Cretaceous Period. There's Max's initial introduction and interview, the training montage as she learns the necessary skills to work at St. The plot runs basically in short episodes, but they all thread together. It sounded similar to the Librarians or maybe a Warehouse 13 with more time travel and less artifact recovery. It promised to be very British (tea is called out specifically in the description) and there was something about saving the world from evil time travelers, etc. Mary's, which uses time travel to do historical research. The book is about a historian nicknamed Max who joins a society called St. With a title like Just One Damned Thing After Another, it's hard not to pick up the book after a long day being stressed at the office. In this case, it wasn't so much the cover as it was the title. Barr clearly regards it as an American success story.You're not supposed to judge books by their covers, but sometimes you can't help it. It is an autobiography with facets, including his recollections of the immigrant hardships of his grandparents, the academic careers of his parents and his own childhood devotion to the bagpipes. Nor is it merely a screed against Barr's own adversaries (although large portions of it are). Taking a step back, this is not merely 'another Trump book,' although Trump is a recurring and animating presence.
He is a master of reading the law, finding what he needs in it, and presenting his interpretation as the obviously correct one.We also see him often as the legal rhetorician, parsing words carefully to fit his purpose.Of course, this mindset, this show of lawyerly care and precision, will only further infuriate the partisans on either side who simply want him to smite the enemy. Throughout his book, Barr walks the line between the various warring factions with the moves of highly skilled lawyer.
He catalogs Trump's offenses yet casts him as the latest victim of dishonest media and 'the radical Left'. Barr alternates between castigating and exonerating, between sounding sympathetic and exasperated. It is just as unlikely to win over Barr's own critics, including those who were angered by the way he left his job with the Trump administration (late in 2020) and those appalled by the way he got it in the first place (nominated late in 2018). His account of those years will be read hungrily by Trump's fiercest defenders and harshest detractors.
Barr's memoir spans seven decades but is inevitably dominated by his two years as attorney general under former President Donald Trump.
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