- 2020 | Table of Contents « Books by 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates || Books on the 2020 Presidential Campaign
Books and More (Post-Election)
The first books on the 2020
presidential election will be out in March and April.
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Jonathan Allen. and Amie Parnes. March 2, 2021. LUCKY: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency. New York: Penguin Random House.
"The inside story of the historic 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden’s harrowing ride to victory, from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Shattered, the definitive account of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign... Allen and Parnes brilliantly detail the remarkable string of chance events that saved him, from the botched Iowa caucus tally that concealed his terrible result, to the pandemic lockdown that kept him off the stump, where he was often at his worst. More powerfully, Lucky unfolds the pitched struggle within Biden’s general election campaign to downplay the very issues that many Democrats believed would drive voters to the polls, especially in the wake of Trump’s response to nationwide protests following the murder of George Floyd..."
Andrew E. Busch and
John J. Pitney, Jr.. March 2021.
DIVIDED WE STAND: The 2020 Elections and
American Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman
& Littlefield.
"Continuing a R&L tradition now entering
its fourth decade, this book provides the most
comprehensive and authoritative account of the
national 2020 election, including the
presidential nomination process and general
election, and congressional and state
elections. Andrew E. Busch and John J. Pitney
Jr. revisit the campaigns and results through
the short lens of politics today and the long
lens of American political history. With its
keen insights into the issues and events that
drove the 2020 elections, Divided We
Stand: The 2020 Elections and American
Politics will be an invaluable
resource for students and all political
observers seeking to understand a historic
election that will continue to resonate
throughout American politics for many years to
come."
Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman, eds. April 2021. A RETURN TO NORMALCY? The 2020 Election that (Almost) Broke America. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
"In A Return to Normalcy?, Larry Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and J. Miles Coleman bring together respected journalists, analysts, and scholars to examine every facet of the stunning 2020 election and its aftermath, and how these events will impact American politics moving forward. In frank, accessible prose, each author offers insight that goes beyond the headlines and dives into the underlying forces and shifts that drove the election from its earliest developments to its chaotic conclusion. A Return to Normalcy? is an indispensable read for political junkies and all students of American politics."
Nicola D. Gutgold. May 2021. ELECTING MADAM VICE PRESIDENT: When Women Run Women Win. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
"When Women Run Women Win presents the presidential bids of the six women who ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020 and the historic, groundbreaking vice-presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris... This book demonstrates the progress women candidates have made as they have moved from symbolic to viable candidates and shines a light on the diminishing obstacles that face women candidates while taking readers on a journey through the victorious progress of a woman United States Vice President."
Robert E. Denton, Jr., ed.. July
2021. THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGN: A Communications Perspective.
Lanham, MD: Rowman
& Littlefield.
"As he has done for each presidential campaign
since 1992, Robert E. Denton, Jr. gathers a
diverse collection of communications scholars to
analyze specific areas of the most recent campaign
season. Topics include early campaign
rhetoric, the nomination process and conventions,
candidate strategies, presidential debates,
political advertising, the use of new media, news
coverage of the campaigns... The first section
addresses the major political campaign
communication areas to include
pre-primary/candidate surfacing, the conventions,
the debates, political advertising, social media
and news coverage of the campaign. The second
section includes two unique aspects of political
branding and the politics of food in the 2020
campaign. The final section of the volume provides
the broad overviews of campaign spending and
finance as well as the national perspective of
explaining the vote."
John Heilemann.
2021. Title tba. New York:
Simon
& Schuster.
"The book will be a dramatic, first-hand account
of Biden’s improbable, decisive, and potentially
transformative triumphs over a sprawling field of
Democratic rivals and then Donald Trump in a race
with existential stakes... Heilemann has
known and covered Biden and his family for more
than three decades, in print and on television.
The forthcoming book will be based both on that
unique history and Heilemann’s reporting on the
2020 campaign—when, amid a raging pandemic, a
ruinous recession, and convulsive racial justice
protests from coast to coast, the
author criss-crossed the country to
chronicle the critical moments of the fierce
battle for the Democratic nomination and the
tumultuous general election."
Ryan Lizza and Olivia Nuzzi. Title
tba. New York: Simon
& Schuster.
"Together, Lizza and Nuzzi’s combination of
veteran experience and fresh perspective
masterfully convey the significance of 2020’s
momentous political and social upheaval in this
turbocharged chronicle of the 2020 presidential
campaign, taking us on a rollicking rollercoaster
ride through an election year roiled by one
shocking curveball after another."
Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.
2022. Title tba. New York: Simon &
Schuster.
"...a book by New York Times journalists
Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns that aims to be the
definitive assessment of the 2020 election as a
turning point in American politics and the most
complete account of the Trump-Biden campaign
and its consequences. Mr. Martin and Mr. Burns
have collaborated on and off for more than a dozen
years, starting at POLITICO during the 2008
election. With deep reporting from both parties,
their book will document a period of crisis in the
country: a presidential race rocked by plague and
protest, followed by a new administration facing
overlapping national emergencies and the erosion
of an old political order."
See also:
Michael Schaub. "Former Trump Campaign
Manager Writing Book." Kirkus
Reviews, Nov. 9, 2020.
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On the
Primaries
Chuck Rocha. Aug. 19, 2020.
T
ÍO BERNIE: The Inside Story of
How Bernie Sanders Brought Latinos Into the
Political Revolution. Strong Arm Press.
"This book is a true behind the scenes look at the
Bernie 2020 Latino outreach operation and Chuck’s
unique story of redemption through his personal
journey to Bernie." — Jeff Weaver, Bernie 2020
Senior Advisor