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A review by michael_g13
Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney
4.0
*4.5 stars rounded down.*
I rarely read any political books or books about the state of American democracy, but I believed that I had to do something depending on which way the 2024 presidential election resulted. Ultimately, I'm glad I read it. Points taken off for confusing legal jargon and intricate constitutional policies that I didn't completely understand, but got the main gist of.
For the longest time until after 2021, I disagreed with former Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican of Wyoming, on various issues, but it was her actions before and after the January 6th Capitol attack that made me gain a new respect for her. To watch her own party slowly but steadily cast aside their duties to the Constitution, to democracy, and to the peaceful transition of power in order to please and follow the demands of one man, but to never waver in her pursuit of truth, accountability, and justice, is the mark of a great politician. She knew she would be shunned, censured, and eventually voted out of office for her efforts, but she loved her country more than her own power and her own party. The coverage and gathering of evidence of President Trump and his team's premeditated, illegal efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in federal and state governments through legal challenges, threats, fraud, and, in the President's case, inciting a mob to march to the Capitol (and his delay in calling them off until after hours and some deaths and injuries of Capitol officers); all this would not have been completely thorough if were not for Liz Cheney and her colleagues on the United States House Select Committee. She writes it all powerfully in this book.
Her last chapter is especially poignant, in which she writes how much of a danger a second Trump presidency would be. (This book was published in 2023.) She was prophetic, it seems, as everything she predicted of what the President would do and how he would run his hypothetical second administration is exactly what he is doing now, it only being 15 days since he was inaugurated. Yet, Liz Cheney is still standing up for democracy, and will continue to do so. Again, I was never the biggest fan of her before, but if I had the opportunity to meet her, I would do so and thank her profusely.
Oh, and Kevin McCarthy?
I rarely read any political books or books about the state of American democracy, but I believed that I had to do something depending on which way the 2024 presidential election resulted. Ultimately, I'm glad I read it. Points taken off for confusing legal jargon and intricate constitutional policies that I didn't completely understand, but got the main gist of.
For the longest time until after 2021, I disagreed with former Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican of Wyoming, on various issues, but it was her actions before and after the January 6th Capitol attack that made me gain a new respect for her. To watch her own party slowly but steadily cast aside their duties to the Constitution, to democracy, and to the peaceful transition of power in order to please and follow the demands of one man, but to never waver in her pursuit of truth, accountability, and justice, is the mark of a great politician. She knew she would be shunned, censured, and eventually voted out of office for her efforts, but she loved her country more than her own power and her own party. The coverage and gathering of evidence of President Trump and his team's premeditated, illegal efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in federal and state governments through legal challenges, threats, fraud, and, in the President's case, inciting a mob to march to the Capitol (and his delay in calling them off until after hours and some deaths and injuries of Capitol officers); all this would not have been completely thorough if were not for Liz Cheney and her colleagues on the United States House Select Committee. She writes it all powerfully in this book.
Her last chapter is especially poignant, in which she writes how much of a danger a second Trump presidency would be. (This book was published in 2023.) She was prophetic, it seems, as everything she predicted of what the President would do and how he would run his hypothetical second administration is exactly what he is doing now, it only being 15 days since he was inaugurated. Yet, Liz Cheney is still standing up for democracy, and will continue to do so. Again, I was never the biggest fan of her before, but if I had the opportunity to meet her, I would do so and thank her profusely.
Oh, and Kevin McCarthy?