Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country
by Adam Kinzinger
View on GoodreadsFormer Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger's memoir of his decision to vote for Trump's second impeachment and serve on the January 6 Select Committee — choices that ended his political career.
Core ideas
- The "renegade" framing is the personal arc — military pilot, Tea Party congressman, eventual party exile — and the book reads as a values story about which loyalties trumped which.
- The threats and ostracism are documented in detail, including family rupture (a much-publicized letter from extended relatives accusing him of working with "the devil's army").
- The thinner-than-Cheney material on inside-the-committee work is offset by Kinzinger's more accessible, less-lawyerly voice — he's writing for the persuadable Trump voter, not the legal record.
Published2023
Pages316
ISBN9780593654170
ReadDec 2023
