Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes: FIGHT

It was the election America dreaded, a rematch between the two oldest men to serve as president. But somewhere along the way, the 2024 battle for the White House became the most jaw-dropping, heart-pounding, head-turning 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: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House (William Morrow; on sale April 1, 2025) 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.

*Please note this event is not at Kramers, but at The Dupont Circle Hotel!

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.

About the Moderator

Bob Cusack has been reporting on policy and politics in the nation’s capital for the last 30 years.

He served as editor-in-chief and was in charge of all editorial departments at The Hill.

Cusack joined The Hill in 2003 as a health care reporter and was named managing editor a year later. In 2014, Cusack was promoted to editor-in-chief.

Before The Hill, Cusack was a reporter and editor for Inside Washington Publishers, covering the Labor Department and Department of Health and Human Services.

At The Hill, Cusack moderated high-profile events where he interviewed top lawmakers and Cabinet members. He regularly appears on TV and radio outlets as a non-partisan political analyst and has won six awards from the National Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists.

Cusack was co-captain of the tennis team at Loyola University in Maryland and still plays competitively. Cusack is a member of Screen Actors Guild and has appeared in dozens of commercials, feature films and television shows, including cameos in HBO’s “Veep” show and “Wonder Woman 1984.”

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