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Hatchet Man
- How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor’s Code and Corrupted the Justice Department
- Narrateur(s): Elie Honig
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Betrayal
- The Final Act of the Trump Show
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Karl
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Karl
- Durée: 10 h et 32 min
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Nobody is in a better position to tell the story of the shocking final chapter of the Trump show than Jonathan Karl. As the reporter who has known Donald Trump longer than any other White House correspondent, Karl told the story of Trump’s rise in the New York Times best seller Front Row at the Trump Show. Now he tells the story of Trump’s downfall, complete with riveting behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the darkest days in the history of the American presidency.
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Great Book | Betrayal
- Écrit par Canadian Dad le 2021-11-20
Auteur(s): Jonathan Karl
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Unthinkable
- Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
- Auteur(s): Jamie Raskin
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In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life—and his family’s—as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence.
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Essential reading
- Écrit par Linda van der Veen le 2022-05-22
Auteur(s): Jamie Raskin
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This Will Not Pass
- Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns
- Narrateur(s): Dennis Boutsikaris
- Durée: 17 h
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This is the authoritative account of an eighteen-month crisis in American democracy that will be seared into the country’s political memory for decades to come. With stunning, in-the-room detail, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns show how both our political parties confronted a series of national traumas, including the coronavirus pandemic, the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and the political brinksmanship of President Biden’s first year in the White House.
Auteur(s): Jonathan Martin, Autres
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Landslide
- The Final Days of the Trump Presidency
- Auteur(s): Michael Wolff
- Narrateur(s): Holter Graham
- Durée: 11 h et 11 min
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We all witnessed some of the most shocking and confounding political events of our lifetime: the careening last stage of Donald J. Trump’s reelection campaign, the president’s audacious election challenge, the harrowing mayhem of January 6, the buffoonery of the second impeachment trial. But what was really going on in the inner sanctum of the White House during these calamitous events? What did the president and his dwindling cadre of loyalists actually believe? And what were they planning?
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Great book overall
- Écrit par adam mcleod le 2021-07-27
Auteur(s): Michael Wolff
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Untouchable
- How Powerful People Get Away With It
- Auteur(s): Elie Honig
- Narrateur(s): Elie Honig
- Durée: 8 h et 57 min
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CNN senior legal analyst and nationally best-selling author Elie Honig explores America’s two-tier justice system, explaining how the rich, the famous, and the powerful—including, most notoriously, Donald Trump—manipulate the legal system to escape justice and get away with vast misdeeds.
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I would have given a ten star rating for this book
- Écrit par Trader Joe le 2023-02-12
Auteur(s): Elie Honig
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The Reckoning
- Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
- Auteur(s): Mary L. Trump PhD
- Narrateur(s): Mary L. Trump PhD
- Durée: 5 h et 31 min
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The Reckoning will examine America’s national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration’s corrupt and immoral policies. Our failure to acknowledge this trauma, let alone root it out, has allowed it to metastasize. Whether it manifests itself in rising levels of rage and hatred, or hopelessness and apathy, the stress of living in a country we no longer recognize has affected all of us. America is suffering from PTSD - a new leader alone cannot fix us.
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Great History Lesson
- Écrit par Vivian le 2021-08-24
Auteur(s): Mary L. Trump PhD
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Betrayal
- The Final Act of the Trump Show
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Karl
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Karl
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Nobody is in a better position to tell the story of the shocking final chapter of the Trump show than Jonathan Karl. As the reporter who has known Donald Trump longer than any other White House correspondent, Karl told the story of Trump’s rise in the New York Times best seller Front Row at the Trump Show. Now he tells the story of Trump’s downfall, complete with riveting behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the darkest days in the history of the American presidency.
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Great Book | Betrayal
- Écrit par Canadian Dad le 2021-11-20
Auteur(s): Jonathan Karl
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Unthinkable
- Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
- Auteur(s): Jamie Raskin
- Narrateur(s): Jamie Raskin
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In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life—and his family’s—as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence.
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Essential reading
- Écrit par Linda van der Veen le 2022-05-22
Auteur(s): Jamie Raskin
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This Will Not Pass
- Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns
- Narrateur(s): Dennis Boutsikaris
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This is the authoritative account of an eighteen-month crisis in American democracy that will be seared into the country’s political memory for decades to come. With stunning, in-the-room detail, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns show how both our political parties confronted a series of national traumas, including the coronavirus pandemic, the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and the political brinksmanship of President Biden’s first year in the White House.
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Landslide
- The Final Days of the Trump Presidency
- Auteur(s): Michael Wolff
- Narrateur(s): Holter Graham
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We all witnessed some of the most shocking and confounding political events of our lifetime: the careening last stage of Donald J. Trump’s reelection campaign, the president’s audacious election challenge, the harrowing mayhem of January 6, the buffoonery of the second impeachment trial. But what was really going on in the inner sanctum of the White House during these calamitous events? What did the president and his dwindling cadre of loyalists actually believe? And what were they planning?
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Great book overall
- Écrit par adam mcleod le 2021-07-27
Auteur(s): Michael Wolff
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Untouchable
- How Powerful People Get Away With It
- Auteur(s): Elie Honig
- Narrateur(s): Elie Honig
- Durée: 8 h et 57 min
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CNN senior legal analyst and nationally best-selling author Elie Honig explores America’s two-tier justice system, explaining how the rich, the famous, and the powerful—including, most notoriously, Donald Trump—manipulate the legal system to escape justice and get away with vast misdeeds.
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I would have given a ten star rating for this book
- Écrit par Trader Joe le 2023-02-12
Auteur(s): Elie Honig
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The Reckoning
- Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
- Auteur(s): Mary L. Trump PhD
- Narrateur(s): Mary L. Trump PhD
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The Reckoning will examine America’s national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration’s corrupt and immoral policies. Our failure to acknowledge this trauma, let alone root it out, has allowed it to metastasize. Whether it manifests itself in rising levels of rage and hatred, or hopelessness and apathy, the stress of living in a country we no longer recognize has affected all of us. America is suffering from PTSD - a new leader alone cannot fix us.
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Great History Lesson
- Écrit par Vivian le 2021-08-24
Auteur(s): Mary L. Trump PhD
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Confidence Man
- The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
- Auteur(s): Maggie Haberman
- Narrateur(s): Maggie Haberman
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Few journalists working today have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. And few understand him and his motivations better. Now, demonstrating her majestic command of this story, Haberman reveals in full the depth of her understanding of the 45th president himself, and of what the Trump phenomenon means. In this revelatory and newsmaking book, Haberman brings together the events of his life into a single mesmerizing work. It is the definitive account of one of the most norms-shattering and consequential eras in American political history.
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A little disappointing
- Écrit par Stephanie Wolf le 2022-10-25
Auteur(s): Maggie Haberman
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Holding the Line
- Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department
- Auteur(s): Geoffrey Berman
- Narrateur(s): Geoffrey Berman
- Durée: 9 h et 33 min
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Ascending to the leadership role of US Attorney for the Southern District, which includes Manhattan and several counties to the north, is a capstone to any legal career: it entails guiding a team of the best lawyers in America in selecting and winning cases that often have global import. Geoffrey Berman was honored to be tapped for the job by Donald Trump in 2018. The manner in which Trump had dispatched his predecessor Preet Bharara was troubling, but the institution was fabled for its independence. Surely he could manage.
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How about patting yourself on the back Geoffrey??
- Écrit par Canadian Dad le 2022-09-29
Auteur(s): Geoffrey Berman
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Insurgency
- How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted
- Auteur(s): Jeremy W. Peters
- Narrateur(s): Jeremy W. Peters
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An epic narrative chronicling the fracturing of the Republican Party, Jeremy Peters’s Insurgency is the story of a party establishment that believed it could control the dark energy it helped foment—right up until it suddenly couldn’t. How, Peters asks, did conservative values that Republicans claimed to cherish, like small government, fiscal responsibility, and morality in public service, get completely eroded as an unshakable faith in Donald Trump grew to define the party?
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The best book I've read/listened to on this era
- Écrit par Raton de Biblioteca le 2022-08-31
Auteur(s): Jeremy W. Peters
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Hold the Line
- The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
- Auteur(s): Michael Fanone, John Shiffman
- Narrateur(s): Michael Fanone
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When Michael Fanone self-deployed to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he had no idea his life was about to change. When he got to the front of the line, he urged his fellow officers to hold it against the growing crowd of insurrectionists—until he found himself pulled into the mob, tased until he had a heart attack, and viciously beaten with a Blue Lives Matter flag as shouts to kill him rang out. Now, Fanone is ready to tell the full story of that fateful day.
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Brilliantly Visceral
- Écrit par T. Kostalas le 2022-10-25
Auteur(s): Michael Fanone, Autres
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One Damn Thing After Another
- Memoirs of an Attorney General
- Auteur(s): William P. Barr
- Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
- Durée: 22 h et 2 min
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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 listeners 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.
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Worst hype book
- Écrit par Sarah Farber le 2022-07-30
Auteur(s): William P. Barr
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There Is Nothing For You Here
- Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
- Auteur(s): Fiona Hill
- Narrateur(s): Fiona Hill
- Durée: 15 h et 35 min
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A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia—and draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places.
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Important personal and policy memoir
- Écrit par DM le 2021-10-24
Auteur(s): Fiona Hill
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Frankly, We Did Win This Election
- The Inside Story of How Trump Lost
- Auteur(s): Michael C. Bender
- Narrateur(s): Eric Pollins
- Durée: 17 h et 6 min
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Michael C. Bender, senior White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, presents a deeply reported account of the 2020 presidential campaign that details how Donald J. Trump became the first incumbent in three decades to lose reelection - and the only one whose defeat culminated in a violent insurrection.
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Narrator is a robot
- Écrit par jill maislin le 2021-07-30
Auteur(s): Michael C. Bender
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Lessons from the Edge
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Marie Yovanovitch
- Narrateur(s): Marie Yovanovitch
- Durée: 17 h et 11 min
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By the time she became US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch had seen her share of corruption, instability, and tragedy in developing countries. But it came as a shock when, in early 2019, she was recalled from her post after a smear campaign by President Trump’s personal attorney and his associates—men operating outside of normal governmental channels, and apparently motivated by personal gain. Her courageous participation in the subsequent impeachment inquiry earned Yovanovitch the nation’s respect, and her dignified response to the president’s attacks won our hearts.
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A fascinating account of character, integrity, and patriotism.
- Écrit par Andy Naundorf le 2023-02-02
Auteur(s): Marie Yovanovitch
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The Big Cheat
- How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family
- Auteur(s): David Cay Johnston
- Narrateur(s): Danny Campbell
- Durée: 6 h et 58 min
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While the world watched Donald Trump’s presidency in horror or delight, few noticed that his lifelong grifting quietly continued. Less than 40 minutes after taking the oath of office, Trump began turning the White House into a money machine for himself, his family, and his courtiers. The Big Cheat offers a guided tour of how money flowed in and out of Trump’s hundreds of enterprises, showing in simple terms how a corrupt president used our government for his benefit, even putting national security at risk.
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Required reading
- Écrit par Sharon Anderson le 2021-12-25
Auteur(s): David Cay Johnston
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Peril
- Auteur(s): Bob Woodward, Robert Costa
- Narrateur(s): Robert Petkoff
- Durée: 13 h et 35 min
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The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history. But as number one internationally best-selling author Bob Woodward and acclaimed reporter Robert Costa reveal for the first time, it was far more than just a domestic political crisis. Woodward and Costa interviewed more than 200 people at the center of the turmoil, resulting in more than 6,000 pages of transcripts - and a spellbinding and definitive portrait of a nation on the brink.
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Even didn’t know how close the USA came to a meltdown
- Écrit par Stephen Powell le 2021-09-26
Auteur(s): Bob Woodward, Autres
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Why We Did It
- A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
- Auteur(s): Tim Miller
- Narrateur(s): Josh Bloomberg
- Durée: 8 h et 14 min
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As one of the strategists behind the famous 2012 RNC “autopsy,” Miller conducts his own forensic study on the pungent carcass of the party he used to love, cutting into all the hubris, ambition, idiocy, desperation, and self-deception for everyone to see. In a bracingly honest reflection on both his own past work for the Republican Party and the contortions of his former peers in the GOP establishment, Miller draws a straight line between the actions of the 2000s GOP to the Republican political class's Trumpian takeover, including the horrors of January 6th.
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Please let the authors narrate their own work!
- Écrit par SK le 2022-07-31
Auteur(s): Tim Miller
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Thank You for Your Servitude
- Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission
- Auteur(s): Mark Leibovich
- Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
- Durée: 8 h et 57 min
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From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington’s “swamp” into a gold-plated hot tub—and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult.
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Enlightening and entertaining
- Écrit par Shauna P. le 2022-08-14
Auteur(s): Mark Leibovich
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National Best Seller
“Elie Honig has written much more than a compelling takedown of an unfit attorney general; he also offers a blueprint for how impartial and apolitical justice should be administered in America.” (Preet Bharara)
“An essential analysis for anyone committed to understanding the abuses of the Trump administration so we can ensure they never happen again.” (Joyce White Vance)
“Essential reading for all who cherish the rule of law in America.” (George Conway)
"Written with all the color and pacing of a legal thriller." (Variety)
CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig exposes William Barr as the most corrupt attorney general in modern US history, with stunning new scandals bubbling to the surface even after Barr's departure from office.
In Hatchet Man, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig uncovers Barr’s unprecedented abuse of power as Attorney General and the lasting structural damage done to the Justice Department. Honig uses his own experience as a prosecutor at DOJ to show how, as America’s top law enforcement official, Barr repeatedly violated the Department’s written rules, and those vital, unwritten norms and principles that comprise the “prosecutor’s code”.
Barr was corrupt from the beginning. His first act as AG was to distort the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, earning a public rebuke for his dishonesty from Mueller himself and, later, from a federal judge. Then, Barr tried to manipulate the law to squash a whistleblower’s complaint about Trump’s dealings with Ukraine - the report that eventually led to Trump’s first impeachment. Barr later intervened in an unprecedented manner to undermine his own DOJ prosecutors on the cases of Michael Flynn and Roger Stone, both political allies of the President. And then Barr fired the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York under false pretenses. Finally, Barr amplified baseless theories about massive mail-in ballot fraud, pouring gasoline on the dumpster fire battle over the 2020 election results and contributing to the January 6 insurrection that led to Trump’s second impeachment.
In Hatchet Man, Honig proves that Barr trampled the two core virtues that have long defined the department and its mission: credibility and independence - ultimately in service of his own deeply-rooted, extremist legal and personal beliefs. Honig shows how Barr corrupted the Justice Department and explains what we must do to prevent this from ever happening again.
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- D. Belec
- 2021-07-17
To Whom It May Concern...
...please make note of the author's recommendations for an independent, fair, and trustworthy Justice Department. Barr took a torch to it. In his or her review (below), someone opined: "Honig spent too much time on himself." I respectfully disagree with that assessment. For a laywoman such as myself in most matters of law and prosecutor guidelines, Honig's personal experience in a classic mob case was not only interesting, but it also provided much needed context to illustrate the myriad ways Barr broke the prosecutor's code and corrupted the Justice Department. This book is one of the most interesting on the Trump presidency so far, and it is also very well narrated. 5 Stars all around!
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- Loretta
- 2021-08-28
Enjoyed
I really enjoyed the overview of the Barr era. Elie does a great job personalizing his views and how he formed his opinion. Really enjoyed the personal stories on relating to the subject
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- Janet Leavitt
- 2021-08-15
I made a sweater listening
Great book...great reading.
I am so much more informed....though my opinions are more confirmed than changed.
it will be awhile before I'm done thinking about this book.
in the meantime, I truly hope a copy has reached the ears of Mr. Barr....he can consider it as draft discovery, I hope.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2021-08-07
Important reading for Merrick Garland...
Excellent review of a liar who helped a dirty crook in the White House!
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- Martell Thompson
- 2021-07-28
Inspiring
Thank you for the beacon of hope that all us not lost in our pursuit of a rules based society.
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- Brian Johnson
- 2021-07-15
A pretty lousy AG and a special kind of stupid
Regrettably a poor choice for AG by one of the dumbest Presidents in US history. That malignant narcissist couldn’t hire anyone smarter than him which explains the choice for AG.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2021-07-09
Weak
some good points but Honig spent too much time on himself. the last couple of chapters were the best...
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- marty
- 2021-07-08
If you think you’ve heard it all before, you’re wrong.
If you’ve heard Honig on CNN, or read anything he’s written on the subject of Barr, you won’t be surprised that he’s not a fan. What becomes immediately apparent in Hatchet Man, is that Elie Honig’s ire is not based on partisanship but rather his reverence for our Justice system and his anger at how Barr has flaunted long held conventions.
I prepared myself to wade through lots of legalize and nuance because I lack any legal background. I was pleasantly surprised that Honig very seldom drifted into institutional jargon and, when he did, he was adept at explaining it on a layman’s level & with examples.
I’m hopeful history will treat Barr with the appropriate level of scorn but I think Hatchet Man will become an important record of how William Barr enabled one of the most dangerous men in our country’s history. Even more so because Elie Honig, as the voice of experience, does an incredible job of explaining WHY Barr acted as he did.
Barr wasn’t just a groveling sycophant. Honig makes a very credible case that Barr had his own agenda. And it is a frightening one.
This book will be one of perhaps hundreds that will be written about the Trump era. I think it will end up being one of the most important.
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- J.B.
- 2021-07-07
The Despicable Wm. Barr
As a historical placemark, denoting the corrupt and sinister being of Attorney General William Barr, and his destruction of the American way of law, Hatchet Man, How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor’s Code and Corrupted the Justice Department, written and read by Elie Honig, does its job well. The work, though, reads like a trial court legal brief, a linear argument to the court. Attorney Honig fails in providing a true understanding of our justice system and how it preserves a secure lifestyle for us in the democratic matrix we call our nation (United States of America). The political question. He exceeds expectations in explaining the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney system and its place in our judicial process. The law-and-order question. Most importantly, though, e also exceeds in providing a chronology of William Barr’s wrongs and why they are evil deteriorations of our legal system. For that alone, this book should be read. Read it and learn the threat William Barr was and remains to our way of democratic life.
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- Bonnie-Ann
- 2021-07-22
From inside the mind of a prosecutor
I write this review as a criminal defense and appellate lawyer with more than a quarter century of experience. That’s my perspective and I put it out there because Mr. Honig’s book expertly explains how a prosecutor’s office is supposed to work and how those “mechanics” failed under William Barr’s most recent tour as Attorney General. He does so in a way that a non-lawyer can understand. That is no easy task. People in the general public learn about the law from tv and from social media. The reality is far different and Honig drills down into the details beautifully.
I knew almost every piece of the narrative — the audition memo, the false flag pre-Mueller Report statement, the Far Right ideology that Barr embraces. Honig’s book wraps those events together with the theme of how Barr’s actions failed to follow “the prosecutor’s code.” The author is self-deprecating about his own mistakes as a prosecutor and discusses humility and honesty to facts as being critical to the administration of justice. I particularly laughed (because we’ve all been there) as Honig’s described having to defend a trial partner’s error in an appellate argument. The one thing I didn’t know was that Barr had never been a prosecutor nor had he defended a criminal client. Frankly, I think I assumed that any AG would have some criminal law background.
My sole critiques are (1) that Honig narrated just a fraction too quickly but that didn’t distract from the book in the slightest; and (2) that while I agree that prosecutors make life-altering decisions, they are only one-third of the criminal justice system. The other two thirds are the defense and the judge/jury. The author recognizes this triumvirate of justice implicitly but doesn’t do so explicitly. I think he could have added that awareness more clearly and hope that he does so in a follow-up book. There are more details to be told. Great first book by an obviously experienced attorney.
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- "tb_in_fl"
- 2021-07-07
Just the facts, ma'am
Loved the personal professional stories interspersed with historical accounting. Entertaining and effective. Really enjoyed the narration by the author himself.
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- Mike
- 2021-07-14
Educational & entertaining
Fantastic book. Elie recounts all of Barr’s actions during his tenure as AG and explains why they were arrogant, unprofessional and corrupt. And Elie does a superb performance as the reader. I found the book to be educational and entertaining and highly recommend it
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- Pam Slack
- 2021-07-09
A prosecutor knows
Elie Honig knows what he’s talking about. He’s a great narrator and the personal anecdotes he uses are spot on.
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- digicheck
- 2021-07-16
Elie was fair and balanced
I liked the comparison of his actual legal experiences to those in which Barr reacted the opposite. This tell gives you a better perspective as to just how outrageous Barr conducted his political biases into the AG point of view.
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- G. Geiger
- 2021-07-13
How Laws and a Democracy Are Broken
Even wonder how fringe figures break laws and convention to become autocrats and dictators? Read this book now. How does a psycopath use personal projection and charisma to get sycophants to bend to his will? Read this book now. How much destruction to laws and democracy can be caused by people who are solely motivated by power? Read this book now. Can a badly damaged justice system and democracy be fixed? Read another book a decade or more in the future.
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- Larry Kaufman
- 2021-07-14
It Was Worth the Wait
Terrific book. Elie’s knowledge of the law and his passion for justice helped build a strong case against Barr.
Hope your next book dissects Rudy Gulliani.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-07-14
Facinating
Really enjoyed it! Honig reveals the methods behind the AG's madness. He uses case examples to show how legal processes are supposed to work in pursuit of justice and explains how they were subverted under Barr's authority. A fascinating book!
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