The Fight of His Life
Inside Joe Biden's White House
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers comes a revelatory, news-making look at how President Joe Biden and his seasoned team have battled to achieve their agenda-based on the author's extraordinary access to the White House during two...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers comes a revelatory, news-making look at how President Joe Biden and his seasoned team have battled to achieve their agenda-based on the author's extraordinary access to the White House during two years of crises at home and abroad.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers comes a revelatory, insider's look at how President Joe Biden and his team have battled to achieve their agenda-based on the author's extraordinary access to the White House during two years of crises at home and abroad.In January of 2021, the Biden administration inherited the most daunting array of challenges since FDR's presidency: a lethal pandemic, a plummeting economy, an unresolved twenty-year war, and the aftermath of an attack on the Capitol that polarized the country. Waves of crises followed, including the fallout from a divisive Supreme Court, raging inflation, and Vladimir Putin's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Now prizewinning journalist Chris Whipple takes us inside the Oval Office as the critical decisions of Biden's presidency are being made. With remarkable access to both President Biden and his inner circle-including Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and CIA Director William Burns-Whipple pulls back the curtain on the internal power struggles and back-room compromises. Featuring shocking new details about how renegade Trump officials enabled the transfer of power, which key staffers really make the White House run (it's probably not who you think), why Joe Biden no longer speaks freely around his security detail, and what he really thinks of Vice President Kamala Harris, the press, and living in the White House, The Fight of His Life "is a valuable first draft of history" (Publishers Weekly).
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Chapter One: What Will You Do If He Loses? ONE WHAT WILL YOU DO IF HE LOSES? Joe Biden was restless. It was late April 2020, nearly seven months before the presidential election. Biden hadn't even won the Democratic nomination yet; only a few months earlier, after dismal showings in the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire primary, pundits had declared his candidacy dead. But after a stunning victory in the South Carolina primary and a string of primary wins across the South, Biden was almost sure to be his party's nominee against Donald Trump. At his home in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden called up an old friend, Ted Kaufman, his next-door neighbor. "Want to go for a walk?" he asked.
Contrary to popular belief, presidential transitions don't begin upon the election of a new president; they start almost a year before. That is when the incumbent and the front-runner for the opposing party's nomination begin preparing for a transfer of power. On this spring morning, as he walked around a nearby schoolyard with his best friend, Kaufman, Joe Biden's transition had begun.
Kaufman, eighty-one, was Biden's confidant and alter ego. Lanky and slightly disheveled, with a twinkle in his eye, he resembled an older version of the actor John Lithgow. An engineer by training, Kaufman was like family; he'd been at Joe's side during his first successful race for councilman in New Castle, Delaware, in 1970. He'd been Biden's chief of staff on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was appointed to his Delaware Senate seat when Biden joined Barack Obama's ticket in 2008. For decades, Kaufman and Biden had sat together on Amtrak while commuting between Wilmington, Delaware, and Washington, D.C. "We were back and forth on the train for 4,000,827 hours," said Kaufman. "So we talked about everything."
Presidential transitions are herculean exercises. That's why Biden's team needed to start so early. More than 200 members of the incoming White House staff needed to be picked and
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readied to govern; 1,200 officials chosen and prepped for confirmation by the Senate; another 1,100, who don't require confirmation, recruited, vetted, and hired; executive orders written, tabletop crisis exercises conducted. Kaufman explained: "If you went to a corporate CEO and said, 'We're going to take away the very top managers in your organization. And then we're going to bring in a whole new team that has to go through an incredibly complicated selection process. Now let's make it the most complex organization in the history of the world. And then let's say that every one of your enemies around the world knows you're at your most vulnerable when you're turning it over.' Are you kidding? They'd laugh at you."
Often, as transitions go, so do presidencies; seamless cooperation with George W. Bush's team, beginning early in 2008, gave Barack Obama a running start when he took office in 2009. By contrast, the bobbled handoff from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush, delayed by legal battles during the tumultuous 2000 recount, was cited by the 9/11 Commission as having left Bush's national security team unprepared for the Al Qaeda attacks on September 11.
But the 2020 presidential transition was unique. It was the most contentious and dangerous since the Civil War. In his effort to remain in power, Trump tried to decapitate the Justice Department, threatened state election officials, pressured state legislators, terrorized local poll workers, and concocted slates of fake electors. When these measures failed, he incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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Often, as transitions go, so do presidencies; seamless cooperation with George W. Bush's team, beginning early in 2008, gave Barack Obama a running start when he took office in 2009. By contrast, the bobbled handoff from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush, delayed by legal battles during the tumultuous 2000 recount, was cited by the 9/11 Commission as having left Bush's national security team unprepared for the Al Qaeda attacks on September 11.
But the 2020 presidential transition was unique. It was the most contentious and dangerous since the Civil War. In his effort to remain in power, Trump tried to decapitate the Justice Department, threatened state election officials, pressured state legislators, terrorized local poll workers, and concocted slates of fake electors. When these measures failed, he incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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Autoren-Porträt von Chris Whipple
Chris Whipple is an author, political analyst, and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN, and NPR, and has contributed essays to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Vanity Fair. His first book, The Gatekeepers, an analysis of the position of White House Chief of Staff, was a New York Times bestseller. His follow-up, The Spymasters, was based on interviews with nearly every living CIA Director and was critically acclaimed. Whipple lives in New York City with his wife Cary.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Chris Whipple
- 2023, 432 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 21,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Scribner
- ISBN-10: 1982106441
- ISBN-13: 9781982106447
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.11.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"The juicy new Biden book [that] is plenty revealing." -Politico West Wing Playbook
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