The Fight of His Life

Inside Joe Biden's White House

Chris Whipple

• Publisher: Scribner
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781982106447
• eBook ISBN:
  9781982106454
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers comes a revelatory, insider's look at how President Joe Biden and his team have battled to achieve their agenda—based on the author's extraordinary access to the White House during two years of crises at home and abroad. In January of 2021, the Biden administration inherited the most daunting array of challenges since FDR's presidency: a lethal pandemic, a plummeting economy, an unresolved twenty-year war, and the aftermath of an attack on the Capitol that polarized the country. Waves of crises followed, including the fallout from a divisive Supreme Court, raging inflation, and Vladimir Putin's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.Now prizewinning journalist Chris Whipple takes us inside the Oval Office as the critical decisions of Biden's presidency are being made. With remarkable access to both President Biden and his inner circle—including Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and CIA Director William Burns—Whipple pulls back the curtain on the internal power struggles and back-room compromises. Featuring shocking new details about how renegade Trump officials enabled the transfer of power, which key staffers really make the White House run (it's probably not who you think), why Joe Biden no longer speaks freely around his security detail, and what he really thinks of Vice President Kamala Harris, the press, and living in the White House, The Fight of His Life "is a valuable first draft of history" ( Publishers Weekly ).

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Cast of Characters
• Introduction
• Chapter One: What Will You Do If He Loses?
• Chapter Two: You Need to Land This Plane
• Chapter Three: We’ll Always Have Your Back
• Chapter Four: Our Own Version of Hell
• Chapter Five: Let’s Get to Work
• Chapter Six: When Is This Going to Crest?
• Chapter Seven: It’s Going to Be Awful to Watch
• Chapter Eight: The Hardest of Hard Days
• Chapter Nine: Eleven Days in August
• Chapter Ten: A Work in Progress
• Chapter Eleven: It’s a Whole New Ball Game
• Chapter Twelve: I’m Not Feared
• Chapter Thirteen: It’s Fifty-Fifty
• Chapter Fourteen: Code Red
• Chapter Fifteen: Infrastructure Week
• Chapter Sixteen: They Want Me to Be President
• Chapter Seventeen: Everyone’s Got a Plan
• Chapter Eighteen: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
• Chapter Nineteen: No One Else Can Do This
• Chapter Twenty: This Man Cannot Remain in Power
• Chapter Twenty-One: Biden of Brooklyn
• Chapter Twenty-Two: A Hand Worse Than FDR’s
• Chapter Twenty-Three: The Way the Story Ends
• Chapter Twenty-Four: Mother’s Day in Ukraine
• Chapter Twenty-Five: The MAGA Crowd
• Chapter Twenty-Six: The Fight of His Life
• Afterword: Get Up!
• Author’s Note
• About the Author
• Notes
• Index
• Copyright