The book delivers a deeply reported account of the 2020 presidential election and the first year of the Biden presidency. It explores how both parties confronted unprecedented events, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and gives an insider look at political decision-making and deal making in both administrations.
A review in The Atlantic calls it, "a document of decline and fall—a chronicle that should cause future readers to ponder how American leaders in the early 21st century lost the ability and will to govern."
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