Giving Up Is Unforgivable - A Manual for Keeping a Democracy

The first book from liberal star Joyce White Vance: equal parts civics class, history lesson, and call to save the Republic, “We’re in this together.” For the past two years, Joyce Vance has signed off posts on her chart-topping Substack, Consider this the birth of a liberal countermovement to Project 2025, a rallying cry for citizen engagement to counter the second Trump administration and save American democracy.

About the author

Joyce Vance is the former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, an office she held during the Obama administration. She resigned on the eve of Donald Trump’s first inauguration at the end of twenty-five years of service as a career federal prosecutor. Vance is a Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. She is a legal analyst for NBC and MSNBC, the author of the popular Civil Discourse Substack, and the cohost of two podcasts: #SistersInLaw and Cafe’s Insider. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her husband, Bob, a retired judge, and a menagerie of children, chickens, cats, and dogs.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Vance
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.2025
• EAN: 9798217178117
• ISBN: 9798217178117
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, LAW / Constitutional, Self-help & personal development, Survivalism / Preparing for emergencies, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, Constitution, Constitutional & administrative law