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Unthinkable : trauma, truth, and the trials of American democracy / Jamie Raskin.

Raskin, Jamin B., (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063209787 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0063209780 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xv, 428 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Preface -- Prologue: Democracy winter -- Part 1. Democracy summer ; A sea of troubles ; The trolley problem -- Part 2. "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 -- Part 3: Violence v. democracy: the January exception ; Is this America? Trump on trial ; Spaghetti on the wall ; Witnesses to insurrection -- Epilogue.
Subject: Raskin, Jamin B.
Trump, Donald, 1946- > Impeachment.
United States. Congress. House > Biography.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
Political violence > United States.
Maryland > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 2017-2021.
Genre: Autobiographies.

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  • 39 of 40 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Albright Memorial Library 92 RASKIN (Text) 50686016134228 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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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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