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Original Sin

Autor Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 mai 2025

Analiza proceselor electorale și a mecanismelor de putere din Statele Unite ocupă un loc central în volumul Original Sin, semnat de jurnalistul Jake Tapper alături de Alex Thompson. Observăm cum autorii deconstruiesc complexitatea campaniilor politice, punând accent pe modul în care deciziile strategice și erorile de judecată modelează parcursul unui candidat spre Biroul Oval. Remarcăm o abordare chirurgicală a evenimentelor, oferind cititorului o perspectivă din interior asupra structurilor de partid și a dinamicii dintre lideri și echipele de consultanți. Suntem de părere că această lucrare completează perspectiva oferită de The Presidential Election of 2020 de William Crotty, adăugând o dimensiune narativă mai axată pe culisele jurnalistice și pe interacțiunile umane imediate, dincolo de analiza pur sociologică a crizei democrației. În timp ce Crotty se concentrează pe impactul sistemic al președinției Trump, Jake Tapper și Alex Thompson explorează tensiunile interne care preced momentele de criză publică. De asemenea, lucrarea se distinge de This Will Not Pass prin modul în care integrează experiența de teren a lui Tapper, oferind un ton mai echilibrat și axat pe fapte verificate în timp real. Credem că Original Sin reprezintă o evoluție firească în opera lui Jake Tapper. Dacă în The Outpost autorul investiga curajul și eșecurile logistice dintr-un conflict armat, aici el aplică aceeași rigoare documentară „câmpului de luptă” politic. Stilul este alert, specific jurnalismului de televiziune de înaltă clasă, evitând speculațiile în favoarea unei expuneri clare a mecanismelor electorale. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă nu doar cine câștigă alegerile, ci și ce compromisuri morale și strategice sunt necesare în acest proces.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781529155488
ISBN-10: 1529155487
Pagini: 332
Dimensiuni: 157 x 239 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Hutchinson Heinemann

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor pasionat de politică internațională și de jurnalisme de investigație. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care se construiesc campaniile electorale americane moderne. Este un instrument util pentru a naviga prin complexitatea știrilor politice, oferind contextul necesar pentru a distinge între strategie și întâmplare în lupta pentru putere.


Despre autor

Jake Tapper este un renumit jurnalist de televiziune american, cunoscut pentru rigoarea sa și pentru interviurile politice incisive. Este autorul mai multor volume de succes, printre care The Outpost, o cronică a războiului din Afganistan, și Race Against Terror. Experiența sa în documentarea momentelor critice ale istoriei americane recente, de la controversele electorale din Down and Dirty până la analizele actuale de pe CNN, îl poziționează ca pe o voce autoritară în peisajul mediatic global. Lucrările sale combină documentarea istorică cu ritmul alert al jurnalismului de știri.


Notă biografică

Jake Tapper is the chief Washington correspondent for CNN. An Emmy Award-winning TV journalist and twice New York Times-bestselling novelist, in 2024 he chaired the Trump-Biden debate that began the unravelling of the president's re-election campaign. A Dartmouth graduate and Philadelphia native, he lives in Washington, DC with his family.
Alex Thompson is a national political correspondent for Axios and a CNN contributor. Before that, he created Politico's West Wing Playbook newsletter and worked at the New York Times and Vice News. A Harvard graduate, he lives in Washington, DC.

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THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Financial Times, Kirkus Reviews, and The Associated Press

"Superbly reported . . . Reads like a Shakespearean drama on steroids." — Los Angeles Times

"Explosive." —The New York Times

"[The] most significant book to date about Biden’s cognitive decline." — The Atlantic

"Destined to stand alongside classics like Theodore White’s The Making of the President 1960 and even Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s All the President’s Men as one of the great books about American electoral politics.” — Richard Aldous, Persuasion

From two of America’s most respected journalists comes an explosive reckoning with one of the most fateful decisions in American political history: Joe Biden’s run for reelection despite evidence of his serious decline—amid desperate efforts to hide the extent of that deterioration.

In Greek tragedy, the protagonist’s effort to avoid his fate is what seals his fate. In 2024, American politics became a Greek tragedy. Joe Biden launched his successful 2020 bid for the White House with the stated goal of saving the nation from a second Trump presidential term. He, his family, and his senior aides were so convinced that only he could beat Trump again, they lied to themselves, allies, and the public about his condition and limitations. At his debate with Trump on June 27, 2024, the consequences of that deception were exposed to the world. It was shocking and upsetting.

In Original Sin, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson take us behind closed doors and into private conversations between the heaviest of hitters—from White House staffers to leaders of Congress and the Cabinet, and from governors to donors and Hollywood players—revealing how big the problem was and how many people knew about it. What you will learn makes President Biden’s decision to run for reelection seem shockingly narcissistic, self-delusional, and reckless—a desperate bet that went bust.

The irony is biting. In the name of defeating what they called an existential threat to democracy, Biden and his inner circle ensured it, tossing aside his implicit promise to serve for only one term and denying the existence of health issues the nation had been watching for years. The decision to run again, the Original Sin of this president, led to a campaign of denial and gaslighting, and directly to Donald Trump’s return to power—and all that has happened as a consequence. Wherever you stand on the political spectrum, Original Sin is essential reading.

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An explosive account of one of the most hubristic mistakes in American political history: Joe Biden's decision to run for reelection despite mounting evidence of his decline, and his team's increasingly desperate efforts to hide it. In Greek tragedy, the protagonist's effort to avoid his fate is what seals his fate. In 2024, American politics became a Greek tragedy. Joe Biden launched his successful 2020 bid for the White House with the stated goal of saving the nation from a second Trump term. He, his family and his senior aides were so convinced that only he could beat Trump again that they lied to themselves, allies and the public about his condition and limitations. At his debate with Trump on 28 June 2024, the consequences of that deception were exposed - all but dooming the Democrats to defeat later that year. Now the full, unsettling truth is being told for the first time. Here, two of America's best-respected political journalists take us behind closed doors to reveal the extent of Biden's decline and who knew about it, from White House staffers to senators to Hollywood celebrities. They paint President Biden's decision to run for re-election as shockingly narcissistic, delusional and reckless - and the wider cover-up as an act of unprecedented public deception. Rarely has hubris met nemesis so explosively. The story the authors tell raises fundamental issues of accountability and responsibility that will endure for decades. In the name of defeating what they called an existential threat to democracy, Biden and his inner circle ensured it, marking the beginning of a remarkable campaign of denial and gaslighting against the American public. His decision to run again was the original sin of his precedency - the moment that led directly to Donald Trump's return to power and all that has come since.