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53 reviews for:
This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future
Alexander Burns, Jonathan Martin, Jonathan Martin
3.88 AVERAGE
53 reviews for:
This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future
Alexander Burns, Jonathan Martin, Jonathan Martin
3.88 AVERAGE
informative
reflective
informative
reflective
slow-paced
These two veteran journalists have done a magnificent job writing this book. I found it fascinating. However, I’ve been following the Trump Administration and its associated insurrection closely over the past several years, and there’s hardly anything new in this book that hasn’t already been reported.
For those who haven’t been keeping up with all the details of the horrendous news we’ve been suffering through over the past five or six years, this would be a great place to start.
If you have been following reliable sources, this will serve as an interesting and often maddening rehash of the worst president and political party that has ever inflicted itself upon the United States.
For those who haven’t been keeping up with all the details of the horrendous news we’ve been suffering through over the past five or six years, this would be a great place to start.
If you have been following reliable sources, this will serve as an interesting and often maddening rehash of the worst president and political party that has ever inflicted itself upon the United States.
This is an embarrassingly rosy look at Biden’s presidency to this point. The authors seemingly started with the thesis that Biden has been transformative and struggle to support their narrative. Ultimately they settle on hyperbolizing a mostly straightforward (while supersized) infrastructure bill to try and do the job. It is not convincing.
Additionally the authors repeatedly claim the Atlanta massage parlor shooter “targeted Asians.” There is no evidence supporting this claim of racial motivation.
Mostly this is a snooze fest telling us what we already know.
- McCarthy is a cowardly moron
- Kamala is just a moron
- Schumer is in way over his head
- Biden is suffering from cognitive deterioration
- Trump is shit
The most entertaining bits were the anecdotes about Biden and his staff trying to play identity Tetris with the cabinet and staff. I wonder how awkward it is to call yourself the next FDR to the Asian American caucus?
Additionally the authors repeatedly claim the Atlanta massage parlor shooter “targeted Asians.” There is no evidence supporting this claim of racial motivation.
Mostly this is a snooze fest telling us what we already know.
- McCarthy is a cowardly moron
- Kamala is just a moron
- Schumer is in way over his head
- Biden is suffering from cognitive deterioration
- Trump is shit
The most entertaining bits were the anecdotes about Biden and his staff trying to play identity Tetris with the cabinet and staff. I wonder how awkward it is to call yourself the next FDR to the Asian American caucus?
This account of the 2020 election and its aftermath is both familiar and new. We know the story, but the NYT journalists provide lots of details that were not public at the time and that make this book read almost like fiction. For me in particular, Kamala Harris' frustration with her often limited role in the administration and the way she viewed her treatment by the White House was a revelation. There is also a clear view of the evolution of many Republicans in their unwilling capitulation to far right factions of both their party and their constituents that is not always clear from watching scattershot news broadcasts.
The book drags a bit towards the end as it describes the tedious negotiations over the infrastructure and reconciliation bills and Biden's consequent slippage in the polls, but the crisp journalistic writing makes reading even that a small price to pay for the reward of seeing all of this coherently from hindsight.
The book drags a bit towards the end as it describes the tedious negotiations over the infrastructure and reconciliation bills and Biden's consequent slippage in the polls, but the crisp journalistic writing makes reading even that a small price to pay for the reward of seeing all of this coherently from hindsight.
Insightful, scary, well-crafted behind the scenes events leading up to January 6th and the first year of Biden’s presidency. Not uplifting but important and packed with candid quotes from key figures.
Was Hoping To Learn More About Hunter Biden's Laptop
This was an okay book.
Fairly dry recent political history book really.
A lot of it I already knew from just the news!
3.2/5
This was an okay book.
Fairly dry recent political history book really.
A lot of it I already knew from just the news!
3.2/5
Repeat after me: I will stop reading books about Trump. They don't lead anywhere.
The last year of Trump’s Presidency and the first year of Biden’s, as reported by 2 NYT reporters. Interesting to remember what we felt at the time, and how dramatically and unexpectedly things change. Disturbing that not a lot has changed since then – Trump is still promoting his conspiracies and trying to remain at the center of every conversation; Biden is still trying to balance being a visionary with working in a bipartisan way. We still don’t know how things are going to turn out.