With insight, wisdom, affection, and concern, Sunstein has written the story of impeachment every citizen needs to know. This is a remarkable, essential book.
-- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Thoroughly grounded in constitutional history and past practice…Excellent.
-- Noah Feldman and Jacob Weisberg New York Review of Books
Sunstein’s goal was to lay out a legal and historical framework for thinking about impeachment, independent of any specific president. I’ve been thinking about the topic a lot since finishing the book, and I want to recommend [it]…[It’s a] careful history of impeachment—of when the founders believed it was appropriate and necessary.
-- David Leonhardt New York Times
Considering that the only executive branch event more unnerving for voters than impeachment is assassination, Sunstein’s book…is a surprisingly cheerful read.
-- Sarah Vowell New York Times
Sunstein has written a concise, enlightening, and argumentative history and guide to getting rid of presidents…It’s more of a why-to and when-to, and a what-were-they-thinking-when-they-decided-to kind of book. Sunstein delves into the writings, speeches, and deliberations of America’s revolutionary generation.
-- Carlos Lozada Washington Post
An elegant new monograph.
-- Andrew Sullivan New York Times Book Review
A lively, compact, and authoritative account…[Sunstein] addresses the most intriguing questions posed by this little used but pivotal constitutional provision…Truly lives up to its promise of being ‘A Citizen’s Guide.’…Excellent.
-- Stephen Rohde Los Angeles Review of Books
Explains the historical origins of the impeachment concept, and offers a checklist as to when the principle might be applied…Now, more than ever, cool heads are needed to safeguard the U.S. Republic: thank goodness for this book—and its handy impeachment checklist.
-- Gillian Tett Financial Times
Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide offers edifying background for an argument that might soon be in need of eloquent, as well as passionate, delivery.
-- Richard Blaustein Los Angeles Review of Books
A compact, concise, and highly relevant civics lesson. There have been a number of books published about impeachment, many of them partisan manifestoes. What makes Sunstein’s book of such great interest is its lack of fanfare and knife‐sharpening. The author is a learned and accessible guide as he maneuvers his way through the history of democracy’s nuclear option…A welcome, timely, ideal primer.
-- Kirkus Reviews
The book is a tribute to the Founding Fathers’ wisdom in providing for a remedy in case someone who is vicious, lawless and unfit should somehow end up in power.
-- Scott McLemee Inside Higher Ed
Sunstein is well positioned to provide this balanced and timely overview of the role of impeachment in American democracy…An essential guide to understanding impeachment’s function within the ‘constitutional system as a whole’ and a persuasive argument that the impeachment clause places ‘the fate of the republic’ in the hands of its citizenry.
-- Publishers Weekly
This slim book is thoroughly researched, easy to read and for some perhaps a real eye-opener.
-- Owen Dawson Irish Times
Offers a highly accessible, brilliantly thoughtful, and politically neutral analysis of what the Constitution means for our present moment and for generations that follow.
-- Ryan Goodman Just Security
With speculation rife about the possibility of impeaching President Trump, this little book is indeed timely.
-- Felix M. Larkin Irish Catholic
Sunstein provides a brief, readable survey of the issue, beginning with early English history and continuing to the present…Sunstein concludes with key questions that every American should consider together with the constitutional standards that would govern it.
-- W. C. Johnson Choice
