Former Attorney General William Barr is set to have a book released on March 8 detailing his tenures leading the Justice Department under the administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Donald Trump.
The memoir, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General, will discuss the challenges Barr faced during both administrations, including the Los Angeles riots of the 1990s, Iran Contra, “Russiagate,” and COVID-19.
“‘One Damn Thing After Another’ is vivid, forthright, and essential not only to understanding the Bush and Trump legacies but also how both men viewed power and justice at critical junctures of their presidencies,” the description of the book says.
The book will be published by William Morrow, which is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Barr, 71, served as attorney general during the Bush administration from 1991 to 1993 and during the Trump administration from 2019 to the end of 2020.
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Barr became the attorney general under Bush largely by chance, according to the book’s description. Bush nominated Barr, who was deputy attorney general, for the position several weeks after he became acting attorney general in 1991 when then-Attorney General Richard Thornburgh resigned to run for the Senate, PBS reported.
Almost 30 years later, he became the attorney general under the Trump administration in 2019. Trump had a falling out with Barr’s predecessor, Jeff Sessions, after Sessions recused himself from overseeing the Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. The book description says Barr made a “deliberate and difficult choice” to take the role during the Trump administration.
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While initially seen as a key ally of Trump, Barr had a falling out with Trump near the end of Trump’s term in office. In December 2020, Barr publicly contradicted Trump and told the Associated Press he had seen no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the November election.
Barr resigned as attorney general later that month, and last year, Trump called Barr “a disappointment in every sense of the word.”
