MIDNIGHT IN WASHINGTON

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.

Schiff takes the reader in to privileged settings and private conversations - and inside the processes... Schiff witnessed formerly trusted Republican colleagues capitulate, one by one, to Trump's basic indecency and immorality, and defend the indefensible, as Schiff and Speaker Pelosi moved forward with the extraordinary process of impeaching and attempting to remove the president.

Here, Schiff argues that the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that not only will the peril will last for years, but because the danger is so ever-present it requires unprecedented vigilance against the still growing 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 crisisfrom 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.

As Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and lead impeachment manager in the first impeachment of Donald Trump, Congressman Schiff became universally recognized as a bulwark against the abuses of power, corruption, deceit, and attacks on our constitutional system that characterized the Trump presidency.

Adam Schiff regularly appears on various news channels, and has a robust social media presence, with a combined 3.5 million followers on two Twitter accounts, and over 600,000 fans across two Facebook pages.