Details for accessing the program will be sent upon registration. Please note: This event will be held virtually. 6 Committee investigating the events of that day, discusses the convergence of personal and public trauma and how the power of his son’s convictions have helped fuel his commitment.Ĭongressman Raskin will be in conversation with Glenn Raucher, founder and host of the PageTurners reading series.īooks can be ordered in advance from our preferred indendent bookseller Books on Call, by clicking here. He was a professor of constitutional law for more than a quarter-century at American University Washington College of Law before entering Congress and has published several books, including the Washington Post Bestseller Overruling Democracy: The. Representative for Maryland’s 8th District. Seven days later, on January 6, Congressman Raskin was at the Capitol to help certify the 2020 Presidential election results when a mob stormed the building hoping to hand four more years of power to President Donald Trump. Representative, MD-8 Congressman Jamie Raskin is the U.S. On December 31, 2020, his son Tommy Raskin, 25, tragically took his own life after a long struggle with depression. 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.In Unthinkable, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life. 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. 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. And yet, on January 6, he faced the one thing he had failed to anticipate: mass political violence designed to block Biden’s election. 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. 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. 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. 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. Raskin writes about the loss of his beloved middle child in Unthinkable. 31, 2020 when his 25-year-old son Tommy died by suicide. Capitol hoping to hand four more years of power to President Donald Trump. Congressman Jamie Raskin’s life was forever changed on Dec. The analysis indicates that around 98 reviews. We analyzed a total of 209 reviews for this product out of which, 0 reviews were received in the last 6 months. BestViewsReviews analyzed 22,621 reviews for 61 products in the Fatherhood Books category. 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. 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. Analysis of 200+ reviews for Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy. 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.
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