Oath and Honor, by Liz Cheney

The decline and fall of the Republican Party, as told by one of its own

I thought I was over reading books about Donald Trump, but apparently not. Liz Cheney's memoir of her time in Congress is a surprisingly good read, a gripping minute-by-minute account of how the Republic Party fell to Donald Trump. It's a story of Republican colleagues Cheney had thought were good and decent, hypocritically supporting a man they in private loathed. Not only that, when it became obvious Trump was dangerous and a threat to American democracy, Republicans continued to trumpet his lies. As Cheney makes clear, Trump didn't do it on his own, he had a legion of enablers in the Republican Party. They should have known better.

For those non-American readers who've always marveled at how forthright American patriotism is, Cheney also makes you understand why. She discusses the importance of the constitution and how America's freedoms were hard fought for. To be a patriot means putting democracy and the constitution above one's political party.

An excellent insider's account from someone who has rubbed shoulders with a lot of the main players in the Republican Party, providing a stunning amount of detail, but also some fascinating thumbnail portraits.

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, by Liz Cheney. Published by Headline.