Rachel Maddow | Department of Fate

The King’s English Bookshop, in partnership with the Tanner Humanities Center, welcomes Emmy Award-winning host Rachel Maddow of MS NOW to Salt Lake City to discuss her new book, The Department of Fate: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America’s Most Consequential Institution. Maddow will be in conversation with RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio.

This is a ticketed event. Your ticket includes a copy of Rachel’s new book, Department of Fate. The books will not be signed.

About the book:

Rachel Maddow leads 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.

Over its nearly 150 years, the United States Department of Justice became America’s most consequential institution, shaping political freedoms, the economy, and the principle of equal protection under the law. Its decisions have been steered by patriotism and self-sacrifice, as well as by lust for power, corruption, and vengeance.

In this history, Maddow traces the department’s triumphs and misdeeds, from the founding and rise of the KKK and the Red Scare to civil rights violence, labor conflicts, cabinet scandals, the Reagan Administration, and the Trump Administration. Department of Fate invites readers to consider how this history illuminates a path toward a more resilient, re-democratized America.

Rachel Maddow is the Emmy Award- and Murrow Award-winning host of The Rachel Maddow Show on MS NOW. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Drift, Blowout, and Prequel, and co-author of the New York Times bestseller Bag Man. Maddow received a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Stanford University and a doctorate in political science from Oxford University. She lives in New York City and Massachusetts with her partner, artist Susan Mikula.