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Lädt ... Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy (2022)von Jamie Raskin
   Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.   ) cathy.lemann | Mar 21, 2023 |  This is Congressman Jamie Raskin's memoir of twin traumas: his personal trauma from the suicide of his beloved son Tommy, and the trauma the country suffered from the January 6 insurrection. I really wanted to read this to learn more about the ins and outs of the legal maneuvering of the second Trump impeachment trial, after having been so engaged in Adam Schiff's account of the first impeachment trial. I was a bit disappointed in this aspect of the book. It didn't seem to go into as much detail as Schiff's account of the first impeachment trial, perhaps because it all had to be done so quickly with not as much time or room for all the backs and forth. I also found Schiff to be a more engaging writer, which surprised me because I have seen Raskin many times on tv and he is an articulate speaker and I admire his grasp of constitutional law. His writing was at times however somewhat academic and scholarly (perhaps because he is a professor). The parts of the book about his son Tommy and the tragedy of his suicide were of course moving. I did however feel that the connection between the two events (the suicide and the insurrection) was tenuous at best, and these perhaps should have been two separate books. There is no doubt however, that throwing himself into the events surrounding the second impeachment trial (and now his work on the January 6 Committee) was one of the ways in which Raskin was working through his grief, and as he states one way to honor Tommy's memory. First line: "In the week between December 31,2020 and January 6, 2021, my family suffered two impossible traumas: the shattering death by suicide of my beloved 25-year-old son, Tommy, and the violent mob insurrection at the U.S. Capitol...." Last line: "For a split second, I was bereft again, built then I looked down at my feet, and there I found my glasses." (  )1  arubabookwoman | Jun 2, 2022 | )2 carolfoisset | May 21, 2022 |  )1 bobbieharv | Apr 19, 2022 | )1 Kate.Koeze | Apr 15, 2022 | keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Biography & Autobiography.
Politics.
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HTML: 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 lifeâ??and his family'sâ??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 griefâ??both personal and professionalâ??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 coupâ??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 fr Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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