The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election
and the first year of the Biden presidency by two New York Times reporters,
exposing the deep fissures within both parties as the country approaches a
political breaking point.
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This is the
authoritative account of an eighteen-month crisis in American democracy that
will be seared into the country’s political memory for decades to come. With
stunning, in-the-room detail, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and
Alexander Burns show how both our political parties confronted a series of
national traumas, including the coronavirus pandemic, the January 6 attack on
the Capitol, and the political brinksmanship of President Biden’s first year in
the White House.
From Donald
Trump’s assault on the 2020 election and his ongoing campaign of vengeance
against his fellow Republicans, to the behind-the-scenes story of Biden’s
selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate and his bitter struggles to
unite the Democratic Party, this book exposes the degree to which the two-party
system has been strained to the point of disintegration. More than at any time
in recent history, the long-established traditions and institutions of American
politics are under siege as a set of aging political leaders struggle to hold
together a changing country.
Martin and
Burns break news on most every page, drawing on hundreds of interviews and
never-before-seen documents and recordings from the highest levels of
government. The book asks the vitally important (and disturbing) question: can
American democracy, as we know it, ever work again?
ADMINISTRATION
New book reveals frustrations between Biden,
Harris camps
BY MONIQUE
BEALS - 03/22/22 10:27 AM ET
An upcoming book from two New York Times reporters
reportedly reveals tensions between President Biden’s and Vice President
Harris’s teams.
The book,
“This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” from
Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns, specifically reveals Harris’s concerns with her
portfolio, according to excerpts obtained by Politico.
Kate
Bedingfield, Biden’s communications director, blamed the tension on Harris
directly, according to the book.
“In
private, Bedingfield had taken to noting that the vice presidency was not the
first time in Harris’s political career that she had fallen short of sky-high
expectations: Her Senate office had been messy and her presidential campaign
had been a fiasco. Perhaps, she suggested, the problem was not the vice
president’s staff,” the book says, per Politico.
Bedingfield
criticized the reporting in a comment to Politico. “The fact that no one
working on this book bothered to call to fact check this unattributed claim
tells you what you need to know,” she said.
“Vice
President Harris is a force in this administration and I have the utmost
respect for the work she does every day to move the country forward,” she
added.
The book
described the relationship between Biden and Harris as “friendly but not
close,” adding that “their weekly lunches lacked a real depth of personal and
political intimacy.”
Martin and
Burns also report that first lady Jill Biden was unhappy with the choice for
Harris as vice president.
“Speaking
in confidence with a close adviser to her husband’s campaign, the future first
lady posed a pointed question. There are millions of people in the United
States, she began. Why, she asked, do we have to choose the one who attacked
Joe?”
During a
debate in June 2019, Harris called out Biden on his record on race, specifically
his previous relationship with segregationist senators and his opposition to
school busing.
The first
lady’s spokesperson, Michael LaRosa, told Politico the office would not comment
on books about the 2020 campaign.
The Hill
has reached out to the White House for comment.
“This Will
Not Pass” is scheduled for release on May 3.
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