"On Jan. 6, 2021, politicians and members of the press huddled in Capitol nooks, confronting their own mortality as sounds of shattering glass and gunshots drew closer. In this explosive collection of her delicately lyrical syndicated columns, Jamie Stiehm shares her visceral experience inside the Capitol. In columns written directly before, immediately after, and over the years since that dark day, Stiehm foreshadows, reacts to and reflects upon the deep scars on our nation from tensions that existed well before Jan. 6 but boiled over on that date, leaving searing burns behind."