Rachel Maddow will explore the history of the U.S. Department of Justice in a book coming later this year.
Crown announced in a press release that it will publish the political commentator’s Department of Fate: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America’s Most Consequential Institution in the fall. The press calls the book “a revelatory, rollicking trip through the history of the Justice Department, finding heroism and treachery in equal measure—and, in the end, a rescue effort for our battered democracy.”
Maddow, the politically liberal host of the Rachel Maddow Show on MS NOW, is the author of four previous books: Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power; Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth; Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House, co-written with Michael Yarvitz; and Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism.
Her new book will cover historic events such as “the founding and rise of the KKK, the riotous chaos of the Red Scare, civil rights murders and violence, railroad barons’ crushing of unions, cabinet scandals that make Watergate look like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the faux erudite lawlessness of the Reagan Administration, and the collapse into thug rule in the Trump Administration,” Crown says.
Department of Fate is scheduled for publication on Nov. 10, one week after the midterm elections.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
