Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
The inside story of the historic 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden’s harrowing ride to victory, from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Shattered, the definitive account of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
Almost no one thought Joe Biden could make it back to the White House—not Donald Trump, not the two dozen Democratic rivals who sought to take down a weak front-runner, not the mega-donors and key endorsers who feared he could not beat Bernie Sanders, not even Barack Obama. The story of Biden’s cathartic victory in the 2020 election is the story of a Democratic Party at odds with itself, torn between the single-minded goal of removing Donald Trump and the push for a bold progressive agenda that threatened to alienate as many voters as it drew.
In Lucky, #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes use their unparalleled access to key players inside the Democratic and Republican campaigns to unfold how Biden’s nail-biting run for the presidency vexed his own party as much as it did Trump. Having premised his path on unlocking the Black vote in South Carolina, Biden nearly imploded before he got there after a relentless string of misfires left him freefalling in polls and nearly broke.
Allen and Parnes brilliantly detail the remarkable string of chance events that saved him, from the botched Iowa caucus tally that concealed his terrible result, to the pandemic lockdown that kept him off the stump, where he was often at his worst. More powerfully, Lucky unfolds the pitched struggle within Biden’s general election campaign to downplay the very issues that many Democrats believed would drive voters to the polls, especially in the wake of Trump’s response to nationwide protests following the murder of George Floyd. Even Biden’s victory did not salve his party’s wounds; instead, it revealed a surprising, complicated portrait of American voters and crushed Democrats’ belief in the inevitability of a blue wave.
A thrilling masterpiece of political reporting, Lucky is essential reading for understanding the most important election in American history and the future that will come of it.
Customer Reviews
We are in big trouble
This is a hard book for me to review. Credit to Allen and Parnes for publishing a competent easy to understand play by play of Biden’s ascendency to office of president. On the other hand, I came away with even more visceral hatred of the Democratic establishment than I previously had. What a bunch of sociopathic freaks who believe in nothing but are surely convinced of their own righteousness. Biden is a hack who has spent his whole life being coddled and never having his power challenged. And then he just happened to be the idiot standing in the right place at the right time. But, if you think he can fix the symptoms that caused trump, I’m afraid we are being set up for even worse version of the Donald come 2024. Biden is not capable, nor is the bought off corrupt Democratic Party, of actually addressing the deep ills and unraveling of America. God help us.
Sad.
I wish that Jonathan and Amie would give us the respect we are all due. The history books aren’t the pages written by hacks such as these; but by action. President Donald J. Trump had flaws, many personal. However, 45 was one of the most consequential, and or successful presidents in our lifetime and beyond. I love my President. Hacks who make books such as these are just that, hacks. They’ll be no books written about them.
Complete dumpster fire.
Anti trump garbage.
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