2024

How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America

De: Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, Isaac Arnsdorf

Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In 2024, award-winning reporters Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf bring us the definitive, inside story of the most tumultuous and consequential presidential campaign in our history.

"A well-paced, thorough and often (darkly) humorous account of the two-year campaign season that began when Donald Trump announced he was running for president again . . . Plenty of thrilling fly-on-the-wall moments."—The New York Times

“The whole world was against me, and I won,” said Donald Trump in an exclusive interview, ten days before his second inauguration. Nearly four years after Trump’s first turbulent presidency concluded in a violent attempt to overturn the election, he made a political comeback on a scale that stunned the nation. How did the first U.S. president to become a convicted felon regain control of the White House? And at what cost? 2024 is the explosive account of how Trump and his advisers overcame a dozen primary challengers, four indictments, two assassination attempts, and his own past mistakes to defeat the Democrats, and pave the way for a second term that would be far more aggressive and ruthless than the first.

Drawing on extraordinary access to the Trump, Biden, and Harris teams, 2024 takes listeners beyond the speeches, rallies, and debates to reveal the innermost workings of the Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns. Beginning in August 2022 with the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago for classified documents, and Trump’s subsequent decision to run once again for president, Dawsey, Pager, and Arnsdorf chart how Trump stifled the rise of Republican opponents, including Ron DeSantis, and how his campaign, led by Susie Wiles, landed on a winning strategy. They reveal in unrivaled detail how Joe Biden and his team brushed off concerns about his age, ignored polling numbers, and held off the next generation of eager Democratic hopefuls—even as Biden was dealing with his own special counsel investigation and the trial of his son Hunter. After his disastrous debate performance forced him to withdraw, Biden anointed Vice President Kamala Harris as the candidate and tasked her with running the shortest presidential campaign in modern U.S. history. With only 107 days to distinguish herself from the past four years, Harris lacked the time or space to outrun Biden’s shadow—a challenge in and of itself, but one which Biden would make even more difficult. On November 5th, 2024, Trump was elected the nation’s forty-seventh president, and would return to power vindicated, emboldened, unrestrained, and burning for revenge.

Gripping, revelatory, and deeply reported, 2024 is the shocking inside story of the election that tested American democracy and would go on to shape the future of the free world.

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Reseñas de la Crítica

“[This] deeply sourced narrative charts the delusions of the main players and the disastrous debate that reset the campaign . . . Yet 2024 is about more than the horse race. It also chronicles how the elites unintentionally made Trump’s restoration possible, despite a torrent of criminal charges against him, 34 resulting in convictions, and civil lawsuits that saw him fined hundreds of millions of dollars.”—The Guardian

"With deep reporting and strong analysis, this might emerge as the definitive title on a hugely consequential election."—Kirkus Reviews

“Three journalists from some of the biggest news outlets in the United States—The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post—join the fray of authors that have taken on last year’s presidential race. The result is an immersive and philosophical tour of an election whose outcome, they argue, was anything but inevitable.”—The New York Times

Corroborates “Original Sin” and Brings Insight to Trump Campaign

This book corroborates many of the accounts between Biden and the democrats in such a way that it is difficult to say these conversations didn’t happen or are untrue. However, this is not a carbon copy of “Original Sin.” This book gives behind the scenes account of the Trump campaign and Trump’s state of mind throughout his historical second run. Fast paced narrative that makes sense of all the news that came out of the last election.

Underwhelming as a whole

Although this story does cover some unique and interesting aspects of the campaigns of the respective candidates, you would find a more “filling” experience listening to other stories on the 2024 election like “Original Sin” or “Fight.” You won’t miss too much if you save your money for other audiobooks.

Great but bias

I really liked the book. It was super well-written and covered a ton of stuff. I found it really engaging and interesting. There were some things I didn't know. Politics is a tough game, not for the faint of heart. If I had one issue with the book, it's that the writers are clearly anti-Trump. They go easy on Biden and Harris, like they're these perfect people who only mess up by accident, never on purpose. With Trump, he's the bad guy, a liar who never means what he says. Even when he's telling the truth, they don't let up on him. If you can get past that, the book is good, and it's not like it's everywhere, but you can definitely see their bias in certain parts, and it's totally anti-Trump.

Straight facts

This was an excellent retelling of how the election went without any significant bias towards either side.

More of same

I have opened my spring and summer reading with “Fight”, “Original Sin” and now “2024”. 2024 wears a decidedly more anti Trump pallor to it. Original Sin was told by a leftist CNN pundit but correctly assessed the situation. 2024 tells more of the same with fewer surprises Hoping for more inside baseball scoop What we knew then was Biden’s policies were failure We could see Biden could barely get around on his own prior to the debate debacle and Word Salad Harris couldn’t string sentences together that were coherent and competent and she was Biden 2.0. Sometimes it’s not what you vote for but what you vote against. Interesting read. As a history junkie and student it does spin a great story.

Not the best choice

Unlike other/previous books on the same topic, this one is the least enjoyable and even worse..,boring.

Interesting but still anti Trump themed

In general I thought the book was interesting and well written. However, I was hoping for a non-partisan viewpoint, one that was informative without badgering either party. The authors are clearly anti-Trump so it was less credible from a content standpoint.

Even handed

This read much like a report on a sporting event including participants performances and strategy/tactics.

Insights

Fantastic behind the scenes conversation on both sides. Appreciate the nonpartisan approach to this very touchy subject

Incredible insight!

Fascinating and incredible insight into the most fascinating and incredible president election to ever happen in America.