The 2020 Election: Examining the Impact of Donald Trump and Joe Biden on America's Future

linda sander: Says it like it is.

United States on Nov 28, 2023

Rule 62 Ken: In the words of a New York Times movie reviewer, "history belongs to those who tell it." How will history remember the 2020 Presidential election and the first year of the Biden presidency? Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns tell it as they saw it in their 2022 book This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America's Future. The authors pick up the history of American politics in the middle of the an unprecedented pandemic, through one of the most unusual presidential campaigns and conventions, and into one of the most controversial elections, leading to a riot at the US Capitol that leaves legislators fearing for their safety. The book carries on through to the inauguration of the man who will become the first octogenarian President of the United States, amidst an avalance of claims that his victory is a stolen one, claims accompanied by a loud echo in social media chambers, unaccompanied by much in the way of supporting evidence.

The authors go on to describe how, at first, many Republican legislators vowed to punish President Donald Trump for encouraging the insurrection of January 6th that caused them to fear for their lives, only to later resile from that...

United States on Oct 30, 2023

D. Levesque: C'était un cadeau pour mon conjoint. Il a beaucoup aimé

Canada on Apr 02, 2023

Huw Davies-Tallon: After reading a glowing review in the FT I imagine reading a unbiased retrospective of the last 2 years in US presidential and national Politic's! Instead it is a partisan biased boring badly written mess! I am no Trump fan but they are so pro Biden it is laughable considering he is now being view universally even by his own party as a disastrous president. Save yourself the money and buy anything else!

United Kingdom on Jul 11, 2022

James Baird: While a bit of a slow start, this book guides the reader through what US politicians were really thinking about in the last few years. It lays bare US politics and politicians in a way that readers can understand and relate to. The slow start lays the ground work for the remainder of the book and it’s conclusions. I highly recommend this book for anyone with an open and intelligent mind.

Canada on May 23, 2022

J. winston: A frightening look at our precious democracy falling prey to the cult of trump. Through their own words ( now famously confirmed by actual audio tapes) and deeds we see how the republicans all knew the existential threat trump poses but decided to become complicit instead of guardrails of our constitution. Plus it shows how frozen our ability is to actually pass legislation and govern with the permanent obstruction by one party
Perhaps the last few paragraphs are the most chilling as foreign leaders and the world recognize the MAGA rabbit hole swallowing our democracy and are truly afraid that instead of America being the beacon of democracy we are doomed to chaos and authoritarian rule especially if trump or a trumpian figure is elected again.. as for the 1 star reviews.. and screams about bias .. sorry if well researched facts and documentation backed up by audio tapes of the very same people they report on in the book is considered biased .. if reporters report facts that reveal the danger and threats of maga trump world then that’s just reporting things you don’t want to believe

United States on May 14, 2022

Masriki: Martin and Burns populate This Will Not Pass with narratives and anecdotes that generate a mixture of reactions. Some are surprising, some are entirely expected, and many give rise to eye-rolling.

The most high-profile story to date has been Kevin McCarthy’s having told other Republican lawmakers that he would suggest to Trump that he resign, lying about it, confronted with the tape of it, and then coming amazingly close to lying about lying about it.

Lindsey Graham’s well-known ping-pong ball convictions: This bounces from January 6, when he threatened a White House lawyer with drumming up support in the Cabinet to remove Trump from office via the 25th Amendment, to the authors’ firsthand narrative of Trump putting him on speakerphone unknowingly, so the reporters were free to listen to his amplified shameless grovel of the Wonders of Trump.

On the surprising-even-for-Sen.-Kyrsten-Sinema front, her arguing with White House staff about being asked to wear a mask when seeing President Biden, and in other parts of the book, bragging about making Palin-esque political use of her cleavage around male GOP lawmakers.

And yes, as reported, Trump had a...

United States on May 04, 2022