Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

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$32.00  $29.76
Publisher
Harper
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Pages
448
Dimensions
6.3 X 9.1 X 1.7 inches | 1.4 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780063209787

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About the Author

Jamie Raskin has represented Maryland's eighth congressional district in the US House of Representatives since 2017. Prior to his time in Congress, he was a three-term state senator in Maryland and the senate majority whip. He was also a professor of constitutional law at American University's Washington College of Law for more than twenty-five years. He has authored several books, including the Washington Post bestseller Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People and the highly acclaimed We the Students: Supreme Court Cases For and About America's Students. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and a former editor of the Harvard Law Review.

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"[An] extraordinary new memoir of an extraordinary year...It is hard to think of an American political figure for whom the past year brought stranger crosswinds: a tornado collision of chilling loss and rising moral leadership." -- Vogue

"Unthinkable is not a work of emotional austerity; rather, it is an unburdening, a howl, a devotional. The grief is nightmarish, but the love that suffuses the text is even more powerful--the love for family and a lost child, as well as a love for a fragile democracy. It takes its greatest inspiration from the idealism of Raskin's son." -- David Remnick, The New Yorker

"[Congressman Raskin] is, in addition to everything else, a really good writer. The blow-by-blow of January 6 is riveting. The passages about his son, and his own pain, are sometimes searing." -- New Republic

"[In Unthinkable] Congressman Jamie Raskin, D-Md., is on a journey -- moving through layers of excruciating trauma and grief...The journey to make sense of Tommy's death and honor his life has added a new fuel for Raskin to right the wrongs of the Jan. 6 attack." -- NPR