But, he told “Fresh Air” host Terry Gross, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) “threw me a lifeline” by appointing him the lead manager in the second impeachment trial of President Trump following the riot at the Capitol. By his own admission, Raskin thought, “My life is over” immediately after Tommy’s death. The twin traumas form the basis of his memoir - and, in a sense, fuel his life’s work now. 31, 2020, and the insurrection itself, which occurred one day after his son’s burial. 1 bestseller on Amazon, just hours after it was released.īut Raskin would surely trade all of the attention if he could take back two devastating and life-altering events from just a year ago: the death by suicide of his beloved 25-year-old son, Tommy Raskin, on Dec. 6, MSNBC will air a documentary about Raskin, “Love & the Constitution.” Certainly he will make many other appearances and be featured in published interviews and book reviews in the days ahead on Wednesday, his book was the No. On Friday evening, Raskin will appear virtually at an event sponsored by the Washington, D.C., bookstore Politics & Prose. Interviews this week on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” “CBS Mornings,” “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “Morning Joe” and “Deadline: White House” on MSNBC, and a “Washington Post Live” webinar. A suggestion by New Yorker magazine Editor David Remnick that Raskin is a “person of the year” for 2021. They include a 7,100-word profile in The Washington Post magazine in early December. The list of Raskin’s high-profile media appearances in just the past few weeks alone is mind-bending. democracy - Raskin is on a whirlwind interview tour that any ambitious politician would envy. 6, 2021 - and what needs to be done to preserve the increasingly fragile U.S. Through his searing new memoir, “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy,” and his prominent role as a truth-teller about what happened in the Capitol on Jan. Capitol will be marked Thursday as much of the previous year has, with Maryland Congressman Jamie B. The first anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) listens during a House Rules Committee hearing on the procedures for upcoming votes at the U.S.
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