Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country by Adam Kinzinger

Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country

by Adam Kinzinger

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Adam Kinzinger's vote to impeach Trump after January 6 effectively ended his House career. The memoir starts much earlier, in an independent fundamentalist Baptist church in Illinois, and follows him through the Air Force into a Republican Party you watch the Tea Party and Trump reshape.

Core ideas
  • Service first: Nearly two decades in the Air Force meant tanker missions over Iraq, transporting wounded troops, and the Airman's Medal after he stopped a knife attack.
  • Elected in 2010: He represented Illinois's 11th and later 16th districts, and he's critical of the party's turn toward Tea Party extremism.
  • The break: Everything builds to January 6 and his vote to impeach, the moment his break with a party reshaped by Trump became final.
Published2023
Pages316
ISBN9780593654170
ReadDec 2023

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