Unthinkable trauma, truth, and the trials of American democracy

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 effor...

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Main Author: Raskin, Jamin B. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York ; : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Democracy winter
  • Democracy summer
  • A sea of troubles
  • The trolley problem
  • "There is a North"
  • Complete the count
  • Midnight meditations and Orwellian preparations
  • "This is about the future of democracy"
  • An all-American defense of democracy
  • Reverse uno
  • Writing Trump
  • Violence v. democracy: the January exception
  • Is this America? Trump on trial
  • Spaghetti on the wall
  • Witnesses to insurrection.