2024 – How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America 2024 – How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America Review
Summary: The 2024 US Presidential campaign was like no other in history. This book is examines the rollicking adventures of Biden, Trump and Harris, as they charge across the US in an almost endless search for votes!
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Bombshells!
2024 – How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America
Written by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf.
Published Hutchison Heinemann 2025
It’s hard to fathom today, but for most of the 19th century, candidates for the Presidency of the United States didn’t campaign. It was regarded as unseemly in a republic for anyone to directly ask the voters for their votes. Instead, proxies fanned out across the continent, giving speeches in the name of the candidate, and in turn, pressing the flesh of actual voters. Even at the nominating conventions, none of the candidates themselves would make an appearance. Even when you were running for the top job, you weren’t expected to be seen to be running for it, if you know what I mean.
How things change! 2024 – How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, demonstrates in fascinating detail how electioneering for what is still considered the most powerful political position in the world has been professionalised and fuelled by the most extraordinary expenditure of money.
It’s been long said that journalism is the first draft of history, and a book like 2024 – How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, written by three experienced journalists working for The Washington Post during the campaign, exemplifies that. It is a very readable, oftentimes breezy tour de horizon of what turned out to be an extraordinarily intense campaign, featuring debate disasters, multiple assassination attempts, upheavals in both camps, the defenestration of a sitting president, and the return to the White House of perhaps the most polarising figure in the world, Donald J Trump Jr.
2024 – How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America is a direct descendant of the landmark The Making of the President: 1960 by Theodore H White, which established how modern US Presidential elections are written about. White was able to report from inside both the Nixon and Kennedy camps, using direct quotes from sources close to the candidates, to illuminate the modern process of electing someone to the White House. Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf handily pick up the baton of White’s approach and take the reader directly into all three campaigns – Trump’s, Biden’s and Harris’s.
Were you surprised by Trump dropping the f-bomb so directly in public during the height of the Israel – Iran 12 Day War? Behind the scenes, Trump possesses a fabulously potty mouth, as exemplified by quotes from sources. Do you think the confident Trump who bestrides US politics today is the same politician terrified in private that he might lose the 2024 election? Trump, as it turns out, contains multitudes. In turn, while Biden’s disastrous debate implosion set the scene for his departure from the race, his discussion with Trump in the White House about the myriad and complex foreign policy issues facing the US he was about to hand over left the President-Elect astonished that Biden was the same man who flamed out so spectacularly. Want to know how a conversation between Biden and Harris changed how she dealt with Biden’s legacy on the campaign trail? It’s included in this book.
Whatever you think of the outcome, as depicted in 2024 – How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, a US Presidential election is a massively complicated and hugely expensive exercise in mass democracy. It is a seemingly unending marathon with the biggest prize for the man or woman who crosses the line first. Campaigns are populated by cool cats like Suzie Wiles, now Trump’s chief of staff, or the occasionally volatile Chris LaCavita, ex-marine who helped spearhead Trump’s return to the White House.
Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf do an admirable job of looking critically at the candidates. No blushes are spared, but they take a relatively even-handed approach. If Trump comes off worse, it’s because Biden and Harris don’t spend their time and energy blatantly lying to the electorate or engaging in extravagant commentary and claims at every turn. But for all that, Trump comes to life in their hands, and is shown to be a vulgar, thrusting, at times charismatic, at times petulant child, but never boring. Biden and Harris, on the other hand, come across as dedicated civil servants hamstrung on the one hand by age and infirmity, and on the other by the lateness of her entry into the race.
The writing of presidential election history is a quadrennial ritual, much like the election campaign itself. Each cycle sees more and more of these examinations issued to a slavering population eager to get a closer look at the people whom they elect in their name. As a first draft of history, 2024 – How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America does a great job of showing what happened, to whom it happened, and to a large extent, why America voted the way it did. It also candidly looks at why the Democrats campaign never really got going, and for its entire length, was unable to craft a message that connected with the wants and needs of the electorate. That, more than anything else, is the real tale of the 2024 election campaign. 2024 – How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America is well worth your time and money.
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