In Person Book Signing With Congressman Adam Schiff

**Events may have been canceled or postponed. Please contact the venue to confirm the event.

Date & Time

Sun, Oct 24 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Address (map)

1129A State Street

Venue (website)

Crush Bar & Tap

Who: Congressman Adam Schiff

What: Talk and Book Signing

Where: Crush Bar & Tap, 1129A State Street, Santa Barbara, California

When: Sunday, October 24 at 2 p.m.

Cost: Purchase of Congressman Schiff’s latest book “Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could”  ($32.63) either at the door or at Chaucer’s Books will gain the buyer one admission ticket, space permitting. (If purchased in advance, Chaucer’s receipt is required for admission.)Space permitting, additional event only tickets will be available for purchase at the door.

Space is very limited for this exclusive event, and entry will be on a first come, first served basis.

Delicious food and tasty beverages will be available for purchase at Crush Bar & Tap. https://www.crushbarsb.com/

For advance purchases, please contact Chaucer’s Books at 805-682-6787 or by visiting the website chaucersbooks.com.

Please direct questions to events@chaucersbooks.com
In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat this posed to the United States. But as he led the probe into Donald Trump’s Russia and Ukraine-related abuses of presidential power, Schiff came to the terrible conclusion that the principal threat to American democracy now came from within.

IMidnight in Washington, Schiff argues that the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years, requiring unprecedented vigilance against the growing and dangerous appeal of authoritarianism. The congressman chronicles step by step just how our democracy was put at such risk, and traces his own path to meeting the crisis—from serious prosecutor, to congressman with an expertise in national security and a reputation for bipartisanship, to liberal lightning rod, scourge of the right, and archenemy of a president. Schiff takes us inside his team of impeachment managers and their desperate defense of the constitution amid the rise of a distinctly American brand of autocracy.

Deepening our understanding of prominent public moments, Schiff reveals the private struggles, the internal conflicts, and the triumphs of courage that came with defending the republic against a lawless president—but also the slow surrender of people that he had worked with and admired to the dangerous immorality of a president engaged in an historic betrayal of his office. Schiff’s fight for democracy is one of the great dramas of our time, told by the man who became the president’s principal antagonist. It is a story that began with Trump but does not end with him, taking us through the disastrous culmination of the presidency and Schiff’s account of January 6, 2021, and how the anti-democratic forces Trump unleashed continue to define his party, making the future of democracy in America more uncertain than ever.

About:
Adam Schiff is the United States Representative for California’s 28th Congressional District. In his role as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Schiff led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump. Before he served in Congress, he worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles and as a California State Senator. He and his wife, Eve, have two children, Alexa and Elijah.

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