{"product_id":"injustice-how-politics-and-fear-vanquished-americas-justice-department-9780593831373","title":"Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An amazing piece of work . . . This is not just a series of newly reported anecdotes and pieces of information. It is a remarkable thesis about how Trump effectively broke the Justice Department in his first term by bullying it.” —Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize–winning \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e reporters Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, a shocking investigation of unparalleled depth into the subversion of the Justice Department over the last decade, culminating in President Donald Trump upending this cornerstone of democracy and threatening America’s rule of law as we have long known it\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout his first administration, Trump did more than any other president to politicize the nation’s top law enforcement agency, pressuring appointees to shield him, to target his enemies, and even to help him cling to power after his 2020 election defeat. The department, pressed into a defensive crouch, has never fully recovered. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInjustice\u003c\/i\u003e exposes not only the Trump administration’s efforts to undermine the department at every turn but also how delays in investigating Trump’s effort to overturn the will of voters under Attorney General Merrick Garland helped prevent the country from holding Trump accountable and enabled his return to power. With never-before-told accounts, Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis take readers inside as prosecutors convulsed over Trump’s disdain for the rule of law, and FBI agents, the department’s storied investigators, at times retreated in fear. They take you to the rooms where Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team set off on an all-but-impossible race to investigate Trump for absconding with classified documents and waging an assault on democracy—and inside his prosecution’s heroic and fateful choices that ultimately backfired. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a plethora of sources deeply embedded in the ranks of three presidencies, Leonnig and Davis reveal the daily war secretly waged for the soul of the department, how it has been shredded by propaganda and partisanship, and how—if the United States hopes to live on with its same form of government—Trump’s war with the Justice Department will mark a turning point from which it will be hard to recover. \u003ci\u003eInjustice\u003c\/i\u003e is the jaw-dropping account of partisans and enablers undoing democracy, heroes still battling to preserve a nation governed by laws, and a call to action for those who believe in liberty and justice for all.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780593831373\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Penguin Putnam Inc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 24.2(H)x16.4(L)x3.9(W)675\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 675\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol Leonnig\u003c\/b\u003e, a five-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the author of three bestselling books and an investigative reporter who has worked at \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e for the last twenty-five years. She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on security failures by the Secret Service. She also was part of \u003ci\u003ePost\u003c\/i\u003e teams awarded Pulitzers in 2024, 2022, 2018, and 2014. Leonnig, a contributor to MSNBC, is the author of \u003ci\u003eZero Fail \u003c\/i\u003eand coauthor of \u003ci\u003eA Very Stable Genius\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI Alone Can Fix It\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAaron C. Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is an investigative reporter for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e who has won the Pulitzer Prize twice and has been a finalist three times. He was a lead writer and reporter on the\u003ci\u003e Post\u003c\/i\u003e’s investigative series into the January 6 attack, which won the George Polk Award, the Toner Prize, and, with other \u003ci\u003ePost\u003c\/i\u003e coverage, the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. In 2018, he was part of a \u003ci\u003ePost\u003c\/i\u003e team that won the Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting. Davis has reported from fourteen countries. He began at \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e in 2008, after reporting for the Associated Press, \u003ci\u003eThe Mercury News\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFlorida Today\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\"Most legal stories rely on the inherent drama of trials, but in \u003ci\u003eInjustice \u003c\/i\u003eLeonnig and Davis take on the more challenging assignment of depicting a bureaucracy. Zoom meetings, as a rule, are less riveting than cross-examinations, but their upshots, especially here, can be more consequential. The heart of \u003ci\u003eInjustice \u003c\/i\u003eis the authors’ reconstruction of how Garland led the investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attempt to overturn the 2020 election . . . If \u003ci\u003eInjustice \u003c\/i\u003ehas heroes, it’s the investigators from the House Select Committee on the events of Jan. 6, who did what Garland forbade his subordinates to do: examine the role of Trump and his White House in the attack on the Capitol . . . The disturbing takeaway of \u003ci\u003eInjustice \u003c\/i\u003eis that, at the Justice Department, political independence has been replaced by abject servility to Trump.\" —\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Toobin,\u003ci\u003e The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most detailed account yet of the Justice Department’s disastrous effort to bring Donald Trump to trial during Joe Biden’s administration, which is likely to long rank among U.S. law enforcement’s greatest failures. History will not judge this effort kindly, but perhaps more importantly — at this fractious and precarious moment in American politics — [\u003ci\u003eInjustice\u003c\/i\u003e] contains critical lessons for a future administration that wants to focus on serious legal accountability for powerful political figures . . . If Democrats are to avoid making the same mistakes all over again, Leonnig and Davis’ book offers both an engaging and enraging opportunity to learn. It’s a journalistic tour-de-force.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolitico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Carol Leonnig","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48717342048473,"sku":"9780593831373","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/71RyQl1jj-L._SL1500.jpg?v=1779026091","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/injustice-how-politics-and-fear-vanquished-americas-justice-department-9780593831373","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}