Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again [Large Print]

By Jake Tapper

Book Overview

An explosive inside reckoning with one of the most fateful conspiracies inAmerican political history--the concerted effort by the President's team to hidehis mental decline.

In Greek tragedy, the protagonist's effort to avoid his fate is what seals his fate. 2024 is theyear American politics became a Greek tragedy.

From the beginning of the Biden administration, some journalists, including Alex Thompsonand Jake Tapper, focused attention on signs of Joe Biden's frailty. For their efforts they weresubject to extraordinary levels of personal vitriol from the White House, and even fromsome of their journalistic colleagues. Whatever the self-awareness of the perpetrators, itwas sheer gaslighting. In Original Sin, the check comes due.

Tapper and Thompson relate in vivid detail what Team Biden knew, when they knew it, andwhat they did or didn't do about it--including many news-making stories from some of themost powerful players in American politics. There is a general awareness of the effort toprotect his public image, but the details the authors have unearthed are genuinelyshocking. They raise fundamental issues of government accountability and responsibility, and of the role the news media plays. The irony is biting: in the name of defeating anexistential threat to democracy, Biden and his inner circle lost their way, and ensured thathis party's nomination process was short-circuited, the public was given cause to doubt hisgood faith, and his Vice President was put in a situation that more than anything elsedoomed her to defeat. The deception, sometimes self-deception, surrounding Joe Biden'sdecline was the original sin of the administration and led directly to Donald Trump's returnto power and all that has happened as a consequence.

Wherever you stand on the political spectrum, Original Sin is a reminder that the ends mustnever justify the means. The ends are ultimately unpredictable, and in reality, the meansare all we have.

• Format: Paperback
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DVLC5SD2
• ISBN13: 9798217170210
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Random House Large Print Publishing
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Biased

He's one to talk, look at our current conman/creep who is president, and won't release the e files which is significantly worse than anything Biden did.

A gaping political reach.

Was hoping for some solid information, but just a political stunt in binding. Biased and not factual by very simple research

Necessary Book, well written

It was essential that this book be written and be written by authors who don't dislike President Biden and probably even voted for him, but are disillusioned that the President's inner circle and family allowed and encouraged an elderly statesman to run for a second term, deceiving the American public. It is disheartening that both Democrats and Republicans are so power hungry that they encourage such behavior. Very well written and audio version voiced by Jake Tapper powerfully presented.