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Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Trump
Maybe someday
46
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Readers
47/100Critics
44/100Scholars
Author:
Edward-Isaac Dovere
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Date:
May 25, 2021
A journalist for The Atlantic tells the inside story of how the embattled Democratic party, seeking a direction for its future during the Trump years, successfully regained the White House.
What The Reviewers Say
Though many of the high points will be familiar to anyone who follows politics, the work offers an engaging fly-on-the-wall narrative of the Democrats who attempted to replace President Donald Trump.
Dovere’s first book is informed and granular, filled with up-close quotes and lacerating observations, a must-read for newsrooms and political junkies. It captures Biden’s post-2016 ascent and the conflicts within his party. Donald Trump weighs on the narrative but is not its focal point. Pride of place goes to Biden and Obama. They are plenty interesting.
... an incisive and deeply reported portrait of the Democratic Party in exile during the Trump presidency, and the confluence of events that brought Joe Biden to victory in 2020.
A carefully structured account of the many moving parts that turned the Democratic Party into a resistance movement against Trump.
