01975cam a2200289 i 4500 on1238127577 OCoLC ta 210521s2021 nyu e b 001 0 eng d 9780525574224 (hbk.) 0525574220 (hbk.) (OCoLC)1238127577 (OCoLC)1240419568 E916 .A45 2021 Allen, Jonathan (Jonathan J. M.) Lucky : how Joe Biden barely won the presidency / Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes. New York : Crown, 2021. xxiii, 498 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-468) and index. Prologue -- "You know me" -- "We avoided that misstep, but not all of them" -- Reform or revolution? -- "This is just a bunch of bullshit!" -- "You forgot Biden" -- Lucky strike -- Panic! at the caucus -- Circular firing squads -- "None of us knew if there was going to be a campaign" -- Firewall -- "The old white guy walks away with the prize" -- The passenger -- "It's all turning" -- Law and disorder -- The keys to Tulsa -- Head or heart -- Unconventional summer -- The invisible enemy -- Do no harm -- Black clover. "Almost no one thought Joe Biden could make it back to the White House--not 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's 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"-- Biden, Joseph R., Jr. Democratic Party (U.S.) Presidents United States Election 2020. Progressivism (United States politics) Parnes, Amie. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 E916 .A45 2021 PNLIB21062252 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 2439 2439