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Unthinkable - Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy (Paperback)
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Unthinkable - Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy (Paperback)
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A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In this searing memoir, 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. On December 31, 2020, Tommy Raskin, the
only son of Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, tragically took his
own life after a long struggle with depression. Seven days later on
January 6, Congressman Raskin returned to Congress to help certify
the 2020 Presidential election results, when violent
insurrectionists led by right wing extremist groups stormed the
U.S. Capitol hoping to hand four more years of power to President
Donald Trump. As our reeling nation mourned the deaths of numerous
people and lamented the injuries of more than 140 police officers
hurt in the attack, Congressman Raskin, a Constitutional law
professor, was called upon to put aside his overwhelming grief-both
personal and professional-and lead the impeachment effort against
President Trump for inciting the violence. Together this
nine-member team of House impeachment managers riveted a nation
still in anguish, putting on an unprecedented Senate trial that
produced the most bipartisan Presidential impeachment vote in
American history. Now for the first time, Congressman Raskin
discusses this unimaginable convergence of personal and public
trauma, detailing how the painful loss of his son and the power of
Tommy's convictions fueled the Congressman's work in the aftermath
of modern democracy's darkest day. Going inside Congress on January
6, he recounts the horror of that day, a day that he and other
Democrats had spent months preparing for under the correct
assumption that they would encounter an attempted electoral
coup-not against a President but for one. And yet, on January 6, he
faced the one thing he had failed to anticipate: mass political
violence designed to block Biden's election. With an inside account
of leading the team prosecuting President Trump in the Senate,
Congressman Raskin shares never before told stories of just how
close we came to losing our democracy that fateful day and lays out
the methodical prosecution that convinced Democrats and Republicans
alike of Trump's responsibility for inciting insurrectionary
violence against our government. Through it all, he reckons with
the loss of his brilliant, remarkable son, a Harvard Law student
whose values and memory continually inspired the Congressman to
confront the dark impulses unleashed by Donald Trump. At turns, a
moving story of a father coping with his pain and a revealing
examination of holding President Trump accountable for the violence
he fomented, this book is a vital reminder of the ongoing struggle
for the soul of American democracy and the perseverance that our
Constitution demands from us all.
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