Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could By: Adam Schiff [Audiobook]

Author: Adam Schiff
Narrated by: Adam Schiff

From the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever.

“If there is still an American democracy fifty years from now, historians will be very grateful for this highly personal and deeply informed guide to one of its greatest crises. We should be grateful that we can read it now.” (Timothy Snyder, number one New York Times best-selling author of On Tyranny

In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat this posed to the United States. But as he led the probe into Donald Trump’s Russia and Ukraine-related abuses of presidential power, Schiff came to the terrible conclusion that the principal threat to American democracy now came from within.

In Midnight in Washington, Schiff argues that the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years, requiring unprecedented vigilance against the growing and dangerous appeal of authoritarianism. The congressman chronicles step by step just how our democracy was put at such risk, and traces his own path to meeting the crisis – from serious prosecutor, to congressman with an expertise in national security and a reputation for bipartisanship, to liberal lightning rod, scourge of the right, and archenemy of a president. Schiff takes us inside his team of impeachment managers and their desperate defense of the constitution amid the rise of a distinctly American brand of autocracy.

Deepening our understanding of prominent public moments, Schiff reveals the private struggles, the internal conflicts, and the triumphs of courage that came with defending the republic against a lawless president – but also the slow surrender of people that he had worked with and admired to the dangerous immorality of a president engaged in an historic betrayal of his office. Schiff’s fight for democracy is one of the great dramas of our time, told by the man who became the president’s principal antagonist. It is a story that began with Trump but does not end with him, taking us through the disastrous culmination of the presidency and Schiff’s account of January 6, 2021, and how the anti-democratic forces Trump unleashed continue to define his party, making the future of democracy in America more uncertain than ever.

668K	01 - Intro, Dedication & Epigraph.mp3
5.2M	02 - Prologue - Why Should I？.mp3
15M	03 - Part One - Against Our Will Comes Wisdom, Chapter 1 - Insurrection.mp3
13M	04 - Chapter 2 - The One Thing They Can Never Take Away.mp3
12M	05 - Chapter 3 - Take Out Your Rolodex.mp3
16M	06 - Chapter 4 - A Man May Change His Clothes, but He Is Still the Same Man.mp3
22M	07 - Chapter 5 - You Know How It Goes.mp3
23M	08 - Part Two - Truth Isn’t Truth, Chapter 6 - Two Stories.mp3
19M	09 - Chapter 7 - The Midnight Run.mp3
21M	10 - Chapter 8 - Keep Doing What You’re Doing.mp3
18M	11 - Chapter 9 - If I Could Only Speak to a Couple Hundred Million People.mp3
14M	12 - Chapter 10 - The Barr Deception.mp3
23M	13 - Chapter 11 - You Might Think It’s Okay.mp3
18M	14 - Part Three - Impeached for Life, Impeached Forever, Chapter 12 - Crossing the Rubicon.mp3
20M	15 - Chapter 13 - I Would Like You to Do Us a Favor, Though.mp3
23M	16 - Chapter 14 - You Need to Come Home on the Next Plane.mp3
35M	17 - Chapter 15 - This for That.mp3
24M	18 - Chapter 16 - Here, Right Matters.mp3
24M	19 - Chapter 17 - Everyone Was in the Loop.mp3
31M	20 - Part Four - Impartial Justice, Chapter 18 - The Four and the Forty Million.mp3
27M	21 - Chapter 19 - Does He Really Need to Be Removed？.mp3
35M	22 - Chapter 20 - One Man Had Said 'Enough'.mp3
22M	23 - Part Five - Someone’s Going to Get Killed, Chapter 21 - Heads on Pikes.mp3
27M	24 - Chapter 22 - Right Would Have to Wait.mp3
14M	25 - Epilogue - He Is Not Who You Are.mp3
372K	26 - Outro.mp3
40K	Midnight in Washington.jpg
490M	total