Unthinkable
Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
New York ; : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xv, 428 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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. A moving story of a father coping with his pain and a revealing examination of holding President Trump accountable for the violence he fomented.
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.
Subjects:
Raskin, Jamin B.
Trump, Donald, 1946- -- Impeachment.
United States. Congress. House -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Capitol Riot, Washington, D.C., 2021.
Political violence -- United States.
Maryland -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021.
Raskin, Jamin B.
Trump, Donald, 1946- -- Impeachment.
United States. Congress. House -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Capitol Riot, Washington, D.C., 2021.
Political violence -- United States.
Maryland -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021.
ISBN:
9780063209787
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