It appears that the Wall Street Journal‘s Bret Stephens, poor soul, drew the short straw and was compelled to review it:

… There is more of this–personal slurs, particularly against U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, factual omissions (Mr. Carter accuses the Bush administration of making hardly any effort to reduce nuclear-weapons stockpiles but doesn’t mention the 2002 Moscow Treaty, which involves the most dramatic nuclear cuts in history), trite sophistries (“a rising tide raises all yachts”) and the invariable, habitual, irrepressible blaming of America first for everything from degrading the environment to alienating Syria. At a certain point it all begins to ooze and blur …

Unfortunately for Stephens, the very best way to plow through a Carter book has already been written ? which means that all future Carter book reviewers cannot avail themselves of that most necessary recourse. (I would say that Carter’s readers could still avail themselves, but surely no voluntary reader of Carter would feel the need for it as keenly as one who’s doing it solely to keep employment.) I refer, of course, to P.J. O’Rourke’s review that created the Carter Book Drinking Game.