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—now including exclusive recordings from the January 5th and January 11th GOP Conference calls referenced in the book’s original reporting.

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 at every turn, 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?

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Dennis Boutsikaris
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Listening Length	17 hours
Author	Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns
Narrator	Dennis Boutsikaris
Audible.ca Release Date	May 03 2022
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B09MDM8YX4
Best Sellers Rank	#34,206 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #60 in Elections & Political Process #65 in Political Parties (Books) #200 in Political Ideologies & Doctrines

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D. Levesque

SATISFAITE

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 2, 2023

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

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James Baird

A Sobering Read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 23, 2022

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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.

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Marsha Starr

What a disappointment!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 4, 2022

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Just one more Trump bashing book (yawn), capitalizing on the opportunity to do so. I'm not even a Trump supporter and I came away from this book distressed that it was soooooooooooo blatantly biased. Biden's perceived halo gets polished, spinning his blunders as achievements. Addressing his rapidly diminishing approval rating, no explanation was offered, just that his feelings get hurt learning that. He is painted as a wise, focused, competent soul, a visionary devoted solely to the interests of the American public,, completely ignoring the multitude of blunders and gaffes associated with his presidency.Waste of money!

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Huw Davies-Tallon

Terrible disappointment

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 11, 2022

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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!

Scott Ludwig

The truth hurts

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 5, 2022

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For all of you one-star reviewers, be honest: reading about the truth is painful. In this case, a painful reminder of the darkest period of time in the history of our democracy. Thankfully, democracy survived.

Just barely.

242 people found this helpful

1776 Lady

Huge Error!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 4, 2022

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I failed to read the 'Bio's' on these authors! I 'thought' I was ordering a book on the issues facing our country today. After reading only 22 pages of snarky, derogatory comments about Trump and the Republicans, I checked the authors' Bio's & discovered they were simply CNN henchmen! If you hate Trump, hate Republicans, maybe even hate America, this book is for YOU!

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Masriki

Not a parody

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 4, 2022

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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 trinket treasure room filled with MAGA merchandise next to his office in the White House.

Twenty five years ago, or even ten years ago, some of these could have been Saturday Night Live skits. Martin and Burns have shown that now, sadly, it’s real.

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