2024 book review: the what-ifs of an election that took US closer to autocracy

Deeply sourced narrative charts the delusions of the main players and the disastrous debate that reset the campaign

Donald Trump is on a roll. The big, beautiful bill" is law. Ice, his paramilitary immigration force, rivals foreign armies for size and funding. Democrats stand demoralized and divided. 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, is a book for these times: aptly named, deeply sourced.

Kamala Harris declined to speak. Joe Biden criticized his successor in a brief phone call, then balked. Trump talked, of course.

2024 is published in the US by Penguin Random House