<B>The “blockbuster” (<I>The Guardian</I>) <I>New York Times </I>bestseller, a shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by two <I>New York Times</I> reporters, exposes the deep fissures within both parties as the country approaches a political breaking point.</B><BR><BR>This is the authoritative, “deeply reported” (<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>) account of an eighteen-month crisis in American democracy that will be seared into the country’s political memory for decades to come. With stunning, in-the-room detail, <i>New York Times </i>reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns show how both our political parties confronted a series of national traumas, including the coronavirus pandemic, the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and the political brinksmanship of President Biden’s first year in the White House.<BR><BR>From Donald Trump’s assault on the 2020 election and his ongoing campaign of v