2024 book review: Trump, Biden, Harris and a turbulent election full of what-ifs

Deeply sourced narrative charts the delusions of the main players and the disastrous debate that reset the campaign

Donald Trump is on a roll. The “big, beautiful bill” is law. Ice, his paramilitary immigration force, rivals foreign armies for size and funding. Democrats stand demoralized and divided. 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, is a book for these times: aptly named, deeply sourced.

Kamala Harris declined to speak. Joe Biden criticized his successor in a brief phone call, then balked. Trump talked, of course.

2024 is published in the US by Penguin Random House

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