I’m pleased to report that Cambridge University Press has just released the second edition of High Crimes & Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump. The first edition was published in August 2019, just before the Trump-Ukraine story broke, precipitating Trump’s first impeachment. Although I was pleased and honored that the book was widely read and cited by the participants in the Trump impeachments, the treatment of impeachment in the first edition seemed incomplete without discussion of the Trump events. Accordingly, the second edition contains nine new chapters describing and analyzing the actual impeachments of Donald Trump, as well as the other scandals of his presidency that some argued should have resulted in impeachment.

I’m also pleased to report that readers with an intimate familiarity with the Trump impeachments think well of the second edition. Cong. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), lead impeachment manager of the second Trump impeachment, says of the book that it is: ‘A perceptive, historically-grounded and constitutionally fastidious guide to the people’s ultimate check against a president who behaves like a king or a mob boss.’

Sadly, the new edition may prove to be of not only historical interest. As I write this, House Republicans are teeing up a vote on a resolution authorizing and impeachment investigation of Pres Joe Biden. The current situation is a weird, distorted mirror image of the situation facing the country in the fall of 2019. Accordingly, some may find the second edition’s discussion of those earlier events and the catastrophic close of the Trump presidency of relevance in considering present circumstances.

The second edition is available from Cambridge Univ Press itself — https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/law/us-law/high-crimes-and-misdemeanors-history-impeachment-age-trump-2nd-edition?format=PB

And also from Amazon —