Crown will publish Rachel Maddow‘s next book, DEPARTMENT OF FATE: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America’s Most Consequential Institution on November 10, directly after the midterm elections. The book is a history of the Justice Department, writes the publisher, tracing its “triumphs and misdeeds through the founding and rise of the KKK, the riotous chaos of the Red Scare, civil rights murders and violence, railroad barons’ crushing the unions, cabinet scandals that make Watergate look like Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, the faux erudite lawlessness of the Reagan Administration, and the collapse into thug rule in the Trump Administration.” […]
