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Unthinkable : trauma, truth, and the trials of American democracy

Summary: 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.

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ISBN: 9780063209787
ISBN: 0063209780
Physical Description: print
xv, 428 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

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Formatted Contents Note:

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.