Latest Tell-All, By Former National Security Adviser McMaster, Is Not All About Trump
Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster wants you to know he has not written the book you probably wanted to read — and he says it right up front.
"This is not the book that most people wanted me to write ... a tell-all about my experience in the White House to confirm their opinions of Donald Trump," the author warns in his preface.
That might have been "lucrative," he says, but it would not be "useful or satisfactory for most readers."
McMaster, who served as national security adviser to President Trump from March 2017 to April 2018, has instead written a book that he hopes "might help transcend the vitriol of partisan political discourse and help readers understand better the most significant challenges to security, freedom and prosperity."
Transcending the "partisan political discourse" is a tall order in any election season, let alone this one. And it may be every bit as difficult to sell a "high-road" assessment of President Trump's foreign policy right now, in the midst of a publishing season of scorching exposes by everyone from Bob Woodward to the first lady Melania Trump's former close friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff to John Bolton, the man who succeeded McMaster as national security adviser.
But McMaster is a retired three-star Army general who had 34 years of active service — including the 13 months he was in the White House.
