Oath and honor : a memoir and a warning

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Title:

Oath and honor : a memoir and a warning

Author:

Cheney, Liz, 1966- author.

ISBN:

9780316572064

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

x, 372 pages, 16 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Contents:

Prologue. (Part I: The plot against America: Election Day 2020 to January 5, 2021): The only thing that matters is winning -- Put up or shut up -- Someone is going to get killed -- The blood of patriots & tyrants -- The oath -- The secretaries of defense -- Just humor him -- More sinister than I was prepared for -- Fake electors -- Powder keg. (Part II: The attack: January 6, 2021): The oath does not bend or yield to popular sentiment -- This is because of you! -- It turned out Kevin was lying -- These are the things that happen -- He was going to let the travesty go on. (Part III: A plague of cowardice: January 7 to June 30, 2021): Impeachment and 25th Amendment are real -- A vote of conscience -- Impeachment -- Trump lied. People died. -- Trump's not eating -- RemoveLiz.com -- They stared down at their desks -- This isn't their party anymore -- But what if he is our only hope? -- That we love our country more -- The inescapable force of freedom -- A personal favor -- The power of propaganda -- Select committee. (Part IV: No half measures: Summer 2021 to Spring 2022): A different world -- McCarthy withdraws his nominees -- I was electrocuted again and again and again -- Hideaway -- Winning in court -- The Meadows text messages -- Presidents are not kings -- Legitimate political discourse -- Taking the 5th -- The illegality of the plan was obvious -- Trump thought Pence deserved to be hanged -- To the best of my recollection, I don't recall -- Not the mastermind. (Part V: The relentless march of evidence: May to December 2022): Seven-part plan -- I was slipping in people's blood -- A grave disservice to the country -- Tantamount to a revolution -- Conspiracy theories and thug violence -- It may have spiraled us into a constitutional crisis -- Hideaway 2.0 -- Ketchup on the wall -- We did our duty and we stood for truth -- President Trump is a 76-year-old man. He is not an impressionable child -- Freedom must not and will not die here -- You're welcome, @KariLake -- They knew -- State of mind -- Never again -- Unfit for any office -- Epilogue. Acknowledgments -- Notes.

Personal Subject:

Cheney, Liz, 1966--Political and social views.

Cheney, Liz, 1966-

Corporate Subject:

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

United States. Congress. House -- Biography.

Subject Term:

Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2020.

Capitol Riot, Washington, D.C., 2021.

Women legislators -- United States -- Biography.

Legislators -- United States -- Biography.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Personal narratives.

Summary:

"A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution--leading to the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6th, 2021--by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it. In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violent attack on our Capitol. Liz Cheney, one of the few Republican officials to take a stand against these efforts, witnessed the attack first-hand, and then helped lead the Congressional Select Committee investigation into how it happened. In Oath and Honor , she tells the story of this perilous moment in our history, those who helped Trump spread the stolen election lie, those whose actions preserved our constitutional framework, and the risks we still face." --Goodreads.

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INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER: A gripping first-hand account of the January 6th, 2021, insurrection from inside the halls of Congress, from origins to aftermath, as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution--by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it.

In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violent attack on our Capitol. Liz Cheney, one of the few Republican officials to take a stand against these efforts, witnessed the attack first-hand, and then helped lead the Congressional Select Committee investigation into how it happened. In Oath and Honor , she tells the story of this perilous moment in our history, those who helped Trump spread the stolen election lie, those whose actions preserved our constitutional framework, and the risks we still face.

Author Notes

Liz Cheney served as a member of Congress from 2017 to 2023, rising to chair the House Republican Conference until her stand against the January 6th insurrection caused her party to strip away that role, and led to her defeat in the 2022 primary election. An attorney and national security specialist, Cheney previously worked in Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine and the Middle East while serving in the State Department during the George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush administrations.

Reviews (2)

Kirkus Review

The former House Republican Conference leader's account of the tumult surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Early on, Cheney, the former Wyoming representative who helped lead the House January 6 Committee, writes, "We cannot make the grave mistake of returning Donald Trump--the man who caused January 6--to the White House, or to any position of public trust, ever again." The author provides a highly detailed account of the chaotic events that transpired from Election Day 2020 through the committee's preparation for the televised hearings (much of the final section reads like an expansive transcript of the hearings, along with commentary) to the present moment and the risks the nation still faces. Following recent titles by other Republican insiders recounting these activities--e.g., former Rep. Adam Kinzinger's Renegade--Cheney's account excels in its vivid portraits of Trump's key enablers, the most reprehensible being Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, and other members of the House Freedom Caucus, including the recently named House Speaker, Mike Johnson, who actively attempted to mislead House members with false claims about the integrity of the election. While readers will likely commend Cheney's genuine efforts to identify and aggressively oppose the threats to democracy posed by Trump during the 2020 election, what they may find sorely lacking is deeper self-reflection on her prior political views--the kind of personal history and soul-searching that distinguishes Kinzinger's book. Such a history would include any justification for her having voted for Trump in 2016 and again in 2020; after all, it's not as though his true colors weren't apparent during his first term in office--and even before. Still, Cheney's book is a useful document as we continue to sort through the ramifications of the Jan. 6 attack. An earnest dissection of the threat Trump poses to our democracy. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Booklist Review

Liz Cheney has the receipts and is naming names. The former Wyoming congresswoman and vice-chair of the select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol has a new mission: to impress on the electorate how much damage Donald Trump has done to America's norms and values and how a repeat performance could destabilize the U.S. permanently. She begins in dramatic, you-are-there fashion, recounting the events of January 6 from inside the Capitol building. The shocking, if not surprising, brutality of that day is juxtaposed against the dismissive words and actions of most of her fellow Republicans as they defend the former president. Cheney's decision that she must, at all costs, uphold the rule of law, leads to the loss of her position in the Republican House leadership and eventually her seat in Congress. But she forges a new path when she is chosen by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to spearhead the January 6 committee. Cheney has admiring words for those like Pelosi and Cassidy Hutchinson, who went above and beyond to bring the truth to light. And she calls out those who wavered (Kevin McCarthy), dithered (Mitch McConnell), and aided and abetted (Jim Jordan), among others. The subtitle calls this book a memoir and a warning. It is riveting and strong as both.

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