Schiff, Adam Midnight In Washington 9780593231524

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Автор: Schiff, Adam
Название: Midnight In Washington
ISBN: 9780593231524
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

ISBN-10: 059323152X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 304
Вес: 0.57 кг.
Дата издания: 12.10.2021
Язык: English
Размер: 23.62 x 15.49 x 4.32 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Основная тема: Political Science
Подзаголовок: How we almost lost our democracy and still could
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: From the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever.

If there is still an American democracy fifty years from now, historians will be very grateful for this highly personal and deeply informed guide to one of its greatest crises. We should be grateful that we can read it now.--Timothy Snyder, #1 New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny

In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat this posed to the United States. But as he led the probe into Donald Trumps Russia and Ukraine-related abuses of presidential power, Schiff came to the terrible conclusion that the principal threat to American democracy now came from within.

In Midnight in Washington, Schiff argues that the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years, requiring unprecedented vigilance against the growing and dangerous appeal of authoritarianism. The congressman chronicles step by step just how our democracy was put at such risk, and traces his own path to meeting the crisis--from serious prosecutor, to congressman with an expertise in national security and a reputation for bipartisanship, to liberal lightning rod, scourge of the right, and archenemy of a president. Schiff takes us inside his team of impeachment managers and their desperate defense of the constitution amid the rise of a distinctly American brand of autocracy.

Deepening our understanding of prominent public moments, Schiff reveals the private struggles, the internal conflicts, and the triumphs of courage that came with defending the republic against a lawless president--but also the slow surrender of people that he had worked with and admired to the dangerous immorality of a president engaged in an historic betrayal of his office. Schiffs fight for democracy is one of the great dramas of our time, told by the man who became the presidents principal antagonist. It is a story that began with Trump but does not end with him, taking us through the disastrous culmination of the presidency and Schiffs account of January 6, 2021, and how the anti-democratic forces Trump unleashed continue to define his party, making the future of democracy in America more uncertain than ever.

Midnight In Washington, Schiff, Adam