Congressman Jamie Raskin has proudly represented Maryland's Eighth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2017. Prior to his time in Congress, Raskin was a three-term state senator in Maryland and the Senate Majority Whip. He was also a professor of constitutional law at American University's Washington College of Law for more than twenty-five years. He has authored several books, including Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. The American People and We the Students: Supreme Court Cases for and about Students. Congressman Raskin is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and a former editor of the Harvard Law Review. He and his wife, Sarah, live in Takoma Park where they raised their three children, Hannah Grace, Thomas Bloom (1995-2020), and Tabitha Claire.
“[An] extraordinary new memoir of an extraordinary year…It is hard to think of an American political figure for whom the past year brought stranger crosswinds: a tornado collision of chilling loss and rising moral leadership.” — Vogue “Unthinkable is not a work of emotional austerity; rather, it is an unburdening, a howl, a devotional. The grief is nightmarish, but the love that suffuses the text is even more powerful—the love for family and a lost child, as well as a love for a fragile democracy. It takes its greatest inspiration from the idealism of Raskin’s son.” — David Remnick, The New Yorker “[Congressman Raskin] is, in addition to everything else, a really good writer. The blow-by-blow of January 6 is riveting. The passages about his son, and his own pain, are sometimes searing.” — New Republic “[In Unthinkable] Congressman Jamie Raskin, D-Md., is on a journey — moving through layers of excruciating trauma and grief…The journey to make sense of Tommy's death and honor his life has added a new fuel for Raskin to right the wrongs of the Jan. 6 attack.” — NPR