Edward-Isaac Dovere

Battle for the Soul (eBook, ePUB)

Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An award-winning political journalist for The Atlantic tells the story of an embattled Democratic party during the Trump years, and its fractious attempt to regain the White House in 2020 In You Are Right to Be Concerned, Edward-Isaac Dovere, staff writer for The Atlantic, will follow the Democratic Party into the wilderness, from the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017, to the swearing-in of a new president on January 20, 2021. Four years have passed since the Democratic Party's leaders, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, fell away, and in that time--with the ascendancy of Trumpism, "the damaging cycle of rot and convulsion that Democrats seem unable to break out of" has continued to plague the party, even in the face of a historic midterm win. Never before has it had presidential candidates as disparate as Sanders, Biden, Buttigieg, Warren, and Bloomberg. Never before has the standard playbook been thrown quite so far out the window. Behind Dovere's fly-on-the-wall stories is a a critical look at Democrats' search for a message and an identity, the energy gathering for more progressive policies, shifting geographic and demographic voting trends, and the recalibration of what the party stands for. Democrats are fighting over how much to define themselves in opposition to Trump, but they're also fighting over whether the answer is a return to the moderate politics of Bill Clinton, an embrace of the multiethnic liberalism of Obama, or a dramatic pivot to Bernie Sanders's European-style socialism. Dovere has spoken with most of the key players in the Democratic Party, and will be drawing on conversations with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Tim Kaine, Cory Booker, Tom Perez and many more, including key players throughout all the Democratic presidential campaigns and beyond. Rarely in history is it clear how defining the changes are as they unfold, and even more rarely are those changes so caught up in the shape of politics itself--pair that opportunity with an insider's command of the politics and contemporaneous access to the key players and You Are Right to Be Concerned will be a fresh, timely, and timeless story like no other.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781984878083
• Artikelnr.: 60207873

Autorenporträt

Edward-Isaac Dovere is a staff writer for The Atlantic and its lead political correspondent. He has covered Democratic politics for fifteen years, beginning in his native New York City and carrying him through the Obama White House and then across twenty-nine states during the 2020 election cycle. His reporting has won the Merriman Smith Award for Excellence from the White House Correspondents Association and the Daniel Pearl Award for Investigative Reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists, among other awards. He lives in Washington, DC, with his family.

Rezensionen

"In the tradition of Theodore White s The Making of the President . . . . A riveting account . . . filled with turning point moments. . . . Scenes jump off the page."
The Washington Post

"Essential reading. . . . Dovere s first book is informed and granular, filled with up-close quotes and lacerating observations, a must-read for newsrooms and political junkies. . . . Battle for the Soul provides ample warning and plenty of food for thought."
Lloyd Green, The Guardian

"A wide-ranging history of a tangled campaign."
Kirkus Reviews

"An incisive and deeply reported portrait of the Democratic party in exile during the Trump presidency . . . . Littered with rich characterizations, wry humor, and impressive insider access."
Publishers Weekly

"There s so much in it. It s so dishy. It s so fantastic. You ll learn a lot."
Julie Mason, SiriusXM

"Candy. . . . Even if you think you know the dynamics, you read a great book like this by a great reporter, and you learn these new things."
John King, CNN

"One juicy book."
Alex Witt, MSNBC

"It is outstanding. Strongly recommend. I think it is probably the best read of the 2020 campaign. The success of the book is that it doesn t get bogged down in the horse race, electoral math type thing, but it talks about the personalities, how the personalities drove what happened in an extraordinarily unpredictable campaign."
Charlie Sykes, The Bulwark

"Highly recommend - it is a dynamite book."
John Fugelsang, SiriusXM

"An extraordinary new book."
Thom Hartmann

"The inside campaign details I was craving. . . . Buy the book."
Dave Weigel, The Washington Post