Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior Republican to stand up to Donald Trump

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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 the Capitol on 6th January 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 US Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violent attack on the 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 US history, those who helped Trump spread the stolen election lie, those whose actions preserved the constitutional framework, and the risks the US faces and the worldwide implications.

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a scathing portrait of the Republican Party ... an unflinching account ... Drawing from real time text messages, emails, calls and meetings, as well as personal conversations, Cheney calls out her Republican colleagues as hypocrites - who knew Trump lost but did his bidding anyway - and says their complicity is a threat to democracy. -- CNN
Chilling reading -- Guardian
Cheney offers scathing portraits of colleagues she holds in utter contempt. -- Washington Post
Liz Cheney calls out Trump and his cronies with bracing candor ... Without a doubt, the nation owes a debt to Liz Cheney, whose new memoir, Oath and Honor, rocketed to the top of the bestseller lists this week. -- Slate
An earnest dissection of the threat Trump poses to our democracy. -- Kirkus

Author Bio

Liz Cheney served as a member of the US Congress from 2017 to 2023, rising to chair the House Republican Conference until her stand against the 6th January 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 US State Department during the George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush administrations.