Research Catalog

Title

High crimes : the corruption, impunity, and impeachment of Donald Trump / Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner.

Author

D'Antonio, Michael,

Publication

• New York, NY : Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2020.
• ©2020

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Eisner, Peter,

Description

x, 436 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Two award-winning 'journalists' offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump. Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner draw on many sources, including key House leaders, to expose the politicking, playcalling, and strategies debated backstage and to explain the Democrats' successes and apparent public failures during the show itself. High Crimes opens with crazy Nancy Pelosi deciding the House should take up impeachment, then, in part one, leaps back to explain what Ukraine was really all about: not just Joe Biden and election interference, but a money grab and oil. Where's Hunter? In the second part, the authors recount key meetings throughout the run up to the impeachment hearings, including many of the heated confrontations between the Trump administration and House Democrats. And the third part takes readers behind the scenes of those hearings, showing why certain things happened the way they did for reasons that never came up in public. In the end, having illuminated every step of impeachment, from the schemes that led Giuliani to the Ukraine in 2016 to Fiona Hill's rebuking the Republicans' conspiracy theories/facts, High Crimes promises to be Trump's Final Days"--

Subject

• Diplomatic relations
• Impeachments
• Misconduct in office > United States
• Misconduct in office
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct
• Political corruption > United States
• Political corruption
• Politics and government
• Since 2017
• Trump, Donald, 1946-
• Trump, Donald, 1946- > Impeachment
• Ukraine > Foreign relations > United States
• Ukraine
• United States > Foreign relations > Ukraine
• United States > Politics and government > 2017-2021
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [366]-426) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Part one: The call. International man of mystery ; Worlds collide ; Why not get along with Russia? ; Alternative facts and dezinformatsiya ; Forrest Gumps of the GOP ; Men on a (secret) mission ; Ambassadors, oligarchs, and mental midgets ; The three amigos ; The drug deal ; Sho? ; The whistleblower -- Part two: Mueller and his report. Waiting for Mueller ; Enter William Barr ; Robert Mueller reporting ; "[Not] full exoneration" ; "You lied, and now we know" ; Conflict escalation ; Self-impeachment ; Barr's predicate ; A partisan thing ; Mueller in the House -- Part three: High crimes. A profile in arrogance ; Witch hunt garbage ; "Pray for the President" ; The pizza protest ; Angels ; Open hearings ; Scholars in Washington ; House rules ; Impeachment day ; The waiting game ; The real articles -- Epilogue: This is what autocracy looks like.

Call Number

JFE 21-139

ISBN

• 9781250766670
• 1250766672
• 9781250766687 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020031672

OCLC

1164819801

Author

D'Antonio, Michael, author.

Title

High crimes : the corruption, impunity, and impeachment of Donald Trump / Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner.

Publisher

New York, NY : Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [366]-426) and index.

Chronological Term

Since 2017

Added Author

Eisner, Peter, author.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-139