Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
by Adam Schiff
View on GoodreadsAdam Schiff's memoir-and-account from his vantage as House Intelligence Committee chair through the Mueller probe, first Trump impeachment, January 6, and the Select Committee — written as a warning about how close the system came to failure.
Core ideas
- The Russia investigation and Ukraine impeachment are treated as continuous, not separate scandals — each rehearsed the next, and the GOP's accommodation set the pattern that culminated in Jan 6.
- Schiff's portraits of his Republican colleagues — many of them privately appalled, publicly aligned — are the most-quoted material in the book.
- The "still could" in the subtitle is the operative phrase: the system survived 2020 because individuals held; it survived a near-miss, not a settled outcome.
Published2021
Pages537
ISBN9781400069699
ReadAug 2023
