Fight

The authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shattered provide a revelatory, inside look the Biden, Harris, and Trump camps during the 2024 battle for the White House, arguably the most consequential contest in American history.

The ride was so wild that it forced a sitting president to drop his re-election bid, a once and future president to survive felony convictions and a would-be assassin’s bullet, and a vice president, unexpectedly thrust into the arena, to mount an unprecedented 107-day campaign to lead the free world. 

Fight is the backstage story of bloodsport politics in its rawest form—the clawing, backstabbing, and rabble-rousing that drove Donald Trump into the White House and Democrats into the wilderness. At every turn, the combatants went for the jugular, whether they were facing down rivals in the other party or their own. 

Bestselling authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes give readers their first graphic view of the characters, their motivations, and their innermost thoughts as they battled to claim the ultimate prize and define a political era. Based on real-time interviews with more than 150 insiders—from the Trump, Harris, and Biden inner circles, as well as party leaders and operatives—Fight delivers the vivid and stunning tale of an election unlike any other.

In the end, Trump overcame voters’ concerns about his personal flaws by tapping into a deep vein of dissatisfaction with the direction of the country. At the same time, Democrats struggled to connect with an electorate that felt gaslit by Biden’s insistence that he had delivered economic prosperity—and his pledge to be a “bridge” president. He tore his party asunder, leaving destroyed personal relationships in his wake, as he clung to power. And when he gave it up, he kneecapped Harris by demanding unprecedented loyalty from her.

As Allen and Parnes have done in the #1 New York Times bestseller Shattered and Lucky, they provide readers with a skeleton key to the rooms where it all happened, revealing a story more shocking than previously reported.

"[D]epicts Biden's decline in vivid detail." — Politico"Brutal . . . [spills] the tea on the ex-president's crumbling run for reelection." — Huffington Post"[A] scathing new book." — New York Post"Loaded with insider details." — Vanity Fair“A scathing indictment . . . Parnes and Allen possess perspective. Their writing is sober, their sourcing solid.” — The Guardian“[Allen and Parnes] prove themselves entertaining observers of the very special combination of ineptitude, backbiting, and hubris that go into every losing political campaign…there is plenty of the sort of fly-on-the-wall detail from both Republican and Democratic camps… the dysfunction, disunity, and ultimate disaster on the Democratic side of the house that yields the most revealing nuggets... valuable and good reading.” — Gerard Baker, editor at large of the Wall Street Journal, reviewing for the Washington Free Beacon"Bombshell . . . Good reporting." — Jesse Watters, host of Jesse Watters Primetime“So many revelations in this book.” — Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe"Great read." — Kristen Welker, host of NBC’s Meet the Press"The first tell-all behind the scenes [showing] exactly what when down during this campaign . . . You have reaction from everyone, on the left and the right.” — Will Cain, host of FOX’s The Will Cain Show"Bombshell . . . I hope everyone reads it." — Chris Cuomo, host of CUOMO"Contains uncomfortable revelations." — Semafor“One of the stranger stories from the strangest election year in ages gets a fresh look in Fight.” — NOTUS Newsletter“The seasoned Washington reporters toggle between the parties, a sensible approach that feels fresh. . . [A] riveting narrative of a crucial power struggle. Dishy scoops fuel a comprehensive account of a historic election.” — Kirkus Reviews

Jonathan Allen is an award-winning political reporter at NBC News. He previously worked as the Washington bureau chief for Bloomberg News and as the White House bureau chief for Politico. He has coauthored three prior books with his writing partner, Amie Parnes, two of which, HRC and Shattered, became New York Times bestsellers.Amie Parnes is a senior political correspondent covering national politics at The Hill. She previously worked as a staff writer at Politico, and during the first Trump administration, she was a CNN political analyst. Amie has also appeared on CBS, NBC, and ABC and is the coauthor of three books with Jonathan Allen, including the New York Times bestsellers HRC and Shattered.

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