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Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
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Author:
Jamie Raskin
Publisher:
Harper
Date:
January 4, 2022
Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland tells the story of the 45 days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life 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.
What The Reviewers Say
Unthinkable is the perfect title for this extraordinary book, because it describes a superhuman feat. Jamie Raskin is a fine writer.
In writing about his son, Raskin speaks for so many of us who have lost a loved one to suicide: We don’t want them to be remembered only for the way they died.
Raskin’s detailed account of the second impeachment proceedings goes on at great but not burdensome length, joining Adam Schiff’s Midnight in Washington as a close study in how such matters work. A brilliant preface, one might guess, to further legal actions against the disgraced former president for his crimes..
