Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
by Liz Cheney
View on GoodreadsLiz Cheney's memoir from her vantage as vice-chair of the House Select Committee on January 6 — built around her decision to break with the party that defined her family for decades.
Core ideas
- The contemporaneous text and conversation receipts she reproduces are the book's hardest material: named colleagues saying things in 2020-2022 they later denied saying, captured in writing.
- The argument is conservative-constitutional, not liberal-policy: Cheney's case against Trump is about oath-taking, constitutional process, and party betrayal — a framing many liberal democracy books can't make as credibly.
- The personal cost is documented without self-pity: losing her seat, her party standing, and many longtime friendships in exchange for what she treats as the basic obligation she ran on.
Published2023
Pages372
ISBN9780316572064
ReadDec 2023
