2024

2024 is a well-paced, thorough and often (darkly) humorous account of the two-year campaign season that began when Donald Trump announced he was running for president again . . . Plenty of thrilling fly-on-the-wall moments.

2024 is a well-paced, thorough and often (darkly) humorous account of the two-year campaign season that began when Donald Trump announced he was running for president again . . . Plenty of thrilling fly-on-the-wall moments.

[This] deeply sourced narrative charts the delusions of the main players and the disastrous debate that reset the campaign . . . Yet 2024 is about more than the horse race. It also chronicles how the elites unintentionally made Trump’s restoration possible, despite a torrent of criminal charges against him, 34 resulting in convictions, and civil lawsuits that saw him fined hundreds of millions of dollars.

With deep reporting and strong analysis, this might emerge as the definitive title on a hugely consequential election

By speaking to insiders on all sides of the debate, it lifts the lid on the near misses, fatal errors and lucky saves that led to the situation today.

[Dawsey, Pager and Arnsdorf write] with a rigour and craft unsurpassed in political campaign reporting . . . The book is full of such arresting, close details: this is the most well-sourced and judiciously written reporting from the campaign that you will find.

In a sprawling new book, [Pager, Dawsey and Arnsdorf] assembled a deeply reported chronicle of this consequential election cycle, starting back in 2022 before the midterms.

Josh Dawsey is an investigative reporter focused on politics at the Wall Street Journal. He most recently was a political investigations reporter at the Washington Post , where he was part of the teams of journalists that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. Dawsey is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and the owner of a rescue dog named Pepper.

Tyler Pager is a White House correspondent at the New York Times . He previously covered the White House at the Washington Post , where he won the 2022 Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Oxford.

Isaac Arnsdorf covers the White House for The Washington Post . His reporting from the scene of the Trump assassination attempt won a Pulitzer Prize in 2025. His first book, Finish What We Started , was published in 2024.