Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside
story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House
impeachment of Donald Trump.
Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House
committees, Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner draw on many sources,
including key House leaders, to expose the politicking, playcalling, and
strategies debated backstage and to explain the Democrats' successes and
apparent public failures during the show itself.
High Crimes opens with Nancy Pelosi deciding the House should take up
impeachment, then, in part one, leaps back to explain what Ukraine was
really all about: not just Joe Biden and election interference, but a
money grab and oil. In the second part, the authors recount key meetings
throughout the run up to the impeachment hearings, including many of the
heated confrontations between the Trump administration and House
Democrats. And the third part takes readers behind the scenes of those
hearings, showing why certain things happened the way they did for
reasons that never came up in public.
In the end, having illuminated every step of impeachment, from the
schemes that led Giuliani to the Ukraine in 2016 to Fiona Hill's
rebuking the Republicans' conspiracy theories, High Crimes promises to
be Trump's Final Days.