Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney will tell the story of the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election—including the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and the House investigation of it—in a new book, Axios reports.
Little, Brown will publish Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning this fall. The press calls the book “a gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution—leading to the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6th, 2021—by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it.”
Cheney, a Wyoming Republican and the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, was elected to the House in 2016 and became chair of the House Republican Conference. After the Jan. 6 attack, she voted in favor of impeaching Trump, which led to her removal from that position in 2021 and her censure by the Republican National Committee the following year.
She was one of two Republican representatives to serve on the Jan. 6 House committee, along with Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. Kinzinger opted to not seek re-election in 2022; Cheney did run again but was defeated in the Republican primary.
“In Oath and Honor, she tells the story of this perilous moment in our history, those who helped Trump spread the stolen election lie, those whose actions preserved our constitutional framework, and the risks we still face,” Little, Brown says of Cheney’s book.
Oath and Honor is slated for publication on Nov. 14.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
