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Fight

Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

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By: Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes
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The authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shattered provide a revelatory, inside look the Biden, Harris, and Trump camps during the 2024 battle for the White House, arguably the most consequential contest in American history.

The ride was so wild that it forced a sitting president to drop his re-election bid, a once and future president to survive felony convictions and a would-be assassin’s bullet, and a vice president, unexpectedly thrust into the arena, to mount an unprecedented 107-day campaign to lead the free world.

Fight is the backstage story of bloodsport politics in its rawest form—the clawing, backstabbing, and rabble-rousing that drove Donald Trump into the White House and Democrats into the wilderness. At every turn, the combatants went for the jugular, whether they were facing down rivals in the other party or their own.

Bestselling authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes give readers their first graphic view of the characters, their motivations, and their innermost thoughts as they battled to claim the ultimate prize and define a political era. Based on real-time interviews with more than 150 insiders—from the Trump, Harris, and Biden inner circles, as well as party leaders and operatives—Fight delivers the vivid and stunning tale of an election unlike any other.

In the end, Trump overcame voters’ concerns about his personal flaws by tapping into a deep vein of dissatisfaction with the direction of the country. At the same time, Democrats struggled to connect with an electorate that felt gaslit by Biden’s insistence that he had delivered economic prosperity—and his pledge to be a “bridge” president. He tore his party asunder, leaving destroyed personal relationships in his wake, as he clung to power. And when he gave it up, he kneecapped Harris by demanding unprecedented loyalty from her.

As Allen and Parnes have done in the #1 New York Times bestseller Shattered and Lucky, they provide listeners with a skeleton key to the rooms where it all happened, revealing a story more shocking than previously reported.

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Good read, very interesting.

The authors did well to write without sounding overly partisan. But the foul language is overwhelming at some points. Story would have been great without the vulgar language.

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A deep dive into the collapse of one candidate and the return of another.

The story was compelling, and does not suffer from the problems of similar publications around the 2024 election that have a more overt slant. The narrator does not stand out, but that may be a strength depending on your taste. If you like Shattered, or simply want to understand the backroom conflicts and political maneuvers of mid to late 2024, then this is a fine audiobook to listen to.

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Comprehensive overview of Democrat failures in '24

I bought this book because I had heard about it through some news stories and interviews the authors participated in. I was expecting more of a 50/50 split about the strategies of both the Republican and Democratic campaigns, but this book pretty much exclusively covers the Dems. I was a little disappointed about this at first, but I can understand why they did not want to focus much on Donald Trump's campaign after thinking on it more. The elephant in the room that the American people were told to look away from was the giant cluster of a show the Democratic party put on by trying to hide Joe Biden's decaying cognition.

The book showcases the hubris, selfishness, and entitlement of Biden and his family, and how they chose to enhance his glory and legacy over taking the humble, realistic option of not running again. The book will put you in the room of the stakeholders who were fighting for or against Biden's decision. You can really feel the desperation through the book, and parts of the book will leave you angered at the fact that this entire process is treated as a game, and that no one chose to speak up sooner about there being a mentally incompetent 82-year-old running the most powerful country in the world (side-kicked by an establishment hack VP that clearly had no strategical thinking ability, no political savvy, and had no pulse on any of the issues).

The book is well-written and avoids pundit talk. You will not find many talking points from either side (if any), so you are already cutting through a lot of the surface level "commentary" that we are usually feed from traditional sources. I did not appreciate the speculation on the thoughts of the players, however. How can quote what Donald Trump is thinking? Obviosuly he is quite hard to read and nail down. It really took away from the immersion and is obviously highly speculative. I would not venture down this path again in future books.

If you are a Democratic voter who still believes in the Biden/Harris presidency and campaign, this book will have a lot of hard pills to swallow regarding how the party mislead the American people. If you kept up with the 2025 election, this will fill in a lot of the gaps for you and will be a good listen/read. Hopefully Democratic strategists and politicians are picking up a copy as well--they may learn that they are NOT entitled to the country's vote just because they feel they have the moral high-ground by whispering sweet nothings.

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fantastic insights

If you are political junkie this is perfect book for you. really good insight especially from Democrat side. Little slanted towards left but nothing major. Just perfectly explaining ruthlessness of American politics. very good narration also

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the age to Biden and how they covered things up

this book is well thought out well written and I enjoyed it very much did you a close or inside look on how things are ran

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Excellent!

The authors have gone into all relevant details of what happened in the 2024 election. Loved it!

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Excellent book!

I am a walk away from the Democratic party and probably have a bias against legacy journalists. Allen and Barnes are a credit to their profession. They praise and criticize both sides of the aisle and their insider details are fascinating. I am very much a MAGA person, but my evaluation of Harris was elevated by this narrative. She treated Joe Biden much better than many members of her party and I think that she had gratitude and appreciation for his selection of her Vice President. She has a very difficult relation with her father, and I think she genuinely has positive regards for Biden.

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A not overly biased review of the campaign

I think they left out alot - the Walz problems, the Emhoff problems, the bias in the debates, etc, but they manage to get all Trumps foibles in. The inside game was interesting.

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A good behind the scenes look at campaign aides

I thought it was fairly consistent with the overall path of the 2024 election, I didn't perceive any particular political leanings of the authors which is particularly important, especially for a political history book written so close to the historic event that it covers. I do, however, wish there was a little less use of vulgar language, but it is understandable if that comes from direct quoting of the various aides being sourced.

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Great listen well researched

In depth, behind the scenes viewpoint Very interesting and in hindsight, scary as to Biden’s mental decline

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