{"id":18106,"date":"2021-03-26T13:09:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T20:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=18106"},"modified":"2021-03-26T13:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T20:09:24","slug":"book-lucky-how-joe-biden-barely-won-the-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/03\/26\/book-lucky-how-joe-biden-barely-won-the-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: “Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by\u00a0Jonathan Allen<\/a>,\u00a0Rob Shapiro<\/a>\u00a0(Narrator),\u00a0Amie Parnes<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost no one thought Joe Biden could make it back to the White House\u2014not Donald Trump, not the two dozen Democratic rivals who sought to take down a weak front-runner, not the mega-donors and key endorsers who feared he could not beat Bernie Sanders, not even Barack Obama. The story of Biden\u2019s cathartic victory in the 2020 election is the story of a Democratic Party at odds with itself, torn between the single-minded goal of removing Donald Trump and the push for a bold progressive agenda that threatened to alienate as many voters as it drew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Lucky<\/em>, #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes use their unparalleled access to key players inside the Democratic and Republican campaigns to unfold how Biden\u2019s nail-biting run for the presidency vexed his own party as much as it did Trump. Having premised his path on unlocking the black vote in South Carolina, Biden nearly imploded before he got there after a relentless string of misfires left him free falling in polls and nearly broke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 lock-down that kept him off the stump, where he was often at his worst. More powerfully, Lucky<\/em> unfolds the pitched struggle within Biden\u2019s general election campaign to downplay the very issues that many Democrats believed would drive voters to the polls, especially in the wake of Trump\u2019s response to nationwide protests following the murder of George Floyd. Even Biden\u2019s victory did not salve his party\u2019s wounds; instead, it revealed a surprising, complicated portrait of American voters and crushed Democrats\u2019 belief in the inevitability of a blue wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A thrilling masterpiece of political reporting,\u00a0Lucky<\/em>\u00a0is essential reading for understanding the most important election in American history and the future that will come of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency by\u00a0Jonathan Allen,\u00a0Rob Shapiro\u00a0(Narrator),\u00a0Amie Parnes\u00a0 Almost no one thought Joe Biden could make it back to the White House\u2014not Donald Trump, not the two dozen Democratic rivals who sought to take down a weak front-runner, not the mega-donors and key endorsers who feared… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18107,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18106\/revisions\/18107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}