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Passage of Power, The (Caro)
Patrick, Deval
Paulson, Hank
PBS
Pelosi, Nancy
Pence, Mike
Pennsylvania
Perez, Tom
Perry, Rick
Peru
Petraeus, David
Pfeiffer, Dan
Plouffe, David
Podesta, John
police
political action committees (PACs)
super PACs
Politico
populism
Portman, Rob
Powell, Colin
Powell, Lewis
Power, Samantha
President’s Daily Brief
Principals Committee
progressives
“Project Dave”
Promised Land, A (Obama)
Promise Me, Dad (Biden)
Promises to Keep (Biden)
Proud Boys
Pryor, Mark
Psaki, Jen
public option
Putin, Vladimir
race
Raimondo, Gina
Rasky, Larry
Reagan, Ronald
RealClearPolitics
Reddy, Vinay
Reed, Bruce
Reed, Jack
Reed, Kasim
Reeves, Keanu
Regan, Michael
Reid, Harry
Reines, Philippe
Renzi, Matteo
Republican National Committee (RNC)
Republican nomination campaigns: (2008); (2010); (2012); (2016)
Republican Party
Rhodes, Ben
Ricchetti, Steve
Rice, Condoleezza
Rice, Susan
Richards, Ann
Richardson, Bill
Richmond, Cedric
Riedel, Bruce
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Robinson, Marian
Rochester, Lisa Blunt
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Ryan, Tim
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Schale, Steve
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school busing
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Second Acts (Updegrove)
Second Amendment
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Souza, Pete
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Specter, Arlen
Spielberg, Steven
Springsteen, Bruce
Staples, Mavis
Starr, Bart
State Department
Stennis, John
Stephanopoulos, George
Stewart, Mitch
Steyer, Tom
stimulus of 2009
stock buybacks
student loan debt relief
Sullivan, Andrew
Sullivan, Jake
Summers, Larry
Super Tuesday
Susman, Louis
Swalwell, Eric
Syria
Taliban
Talmadge, Herman
taxes
Teamsters
Team USA
Tea Party
Ten Year War, The (Cohn)
Tester, Jon
Tewes, Paul
Texas
Third Way
Thomas, Clarence
Thurmond, Strom
Tindell, Kip
Toomey, Pat
Tough Love (Rice)
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Treasury Department
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
Trudeau, Justin
Truman, Harry S.
Trumka, Richard
Trump, Donald
ACA and
ascertainment delay and
Biden and
Comey and
COVID-19 and
danger of
elections and: (2016); (2020)
impeachments of
inauguration of
January 6 and
Obama and
race and
Trump, Ivanka
Tsongas, Paul
Turnbull, Malcolm
Twitter
Ukraine
unemployment
United Auto Workers
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
committees: Finance; Foreign Relations; Intelligence; Judiciary
U.S. Supreme Court
United Kingdom (UK)
United Nations
Updegrove, Mark K.
USA Today
Van Buren, Martin
Van Hollen, Chris
Veterans Affairs Department
Vietnam War
View, The (TV show)
Vilsack, Tom
Violence Against Women Act
Virginia
Virginia Tech shootings
Voinovich, George
Volcker, Paul
voting rights
Vox News
Wallace, George
Wall Street Journal
Warner, Mark
Warren, Elizabeth
Washington, George
Washington Post
Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
Webster, Daniel
Weiner, Anthony
What It Takes (Cramer)
White House Correspondents Association
White House Vice Presidency, The (Goldstein)
white supremacists
white voters
White Working Class (Williams)
Whitman, Meg
Whitmer, Gretchen
Why Liberalism Failed (Deneen)
WikiLeaks
Wilhelm, David
Will and Grace (TV show)
Williams, Brian
Williams, Joan C.
Winfrey, Oprah
Wisconsin
Wolf, Robert
women
Woodward, Bob
working class
World as It Is, The (Rhodes)
World Economic Forum
World Trade Organization
World Wildlife Fund
Wright, Jeremiah
Xi Jinping
young voters
Ziblatt, Daniel
Zients, Jeff
Zuckerberg, Mark
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gabriel Debenedetti is the national correspondent at New York magazine, where he writes about politics and national affairs. Previously, he covered politics for Politico and Reuters. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Economist, Politico Magazine, and the New Republic. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Preface
PART I
1 2003–2004
2 2004–2006
3 2007–2008
4 2008
5 2008
6 2008–2009
7 2009
8 2009–2010
9 2010–2011
10 2012
PART II
11 2012–2013
12 2013–2015
13 2015
14 2016
15 2016–2017
16 2017–2018
17 2018–2019
18 2019
19 2020
20 2020–2021
Afterword
A Note on Sources
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Copyright
THE LONG ALLIANCE: THE IMPERFECT UNION OF JOE BIDEN AND BARACK OBAMA. Copyright © 2022 by Gabriel Debenedetti. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 120 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10271.
www.henryholt.com
Cover design by Alex Camlin
Cover photograph © Alex Wong / Getty Images
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Patrick, Deval
Paulson, Hank
PBS
Pelosi, Nancy
Pence, Mike
Pennsylvania
Perez, Tom
Perry, Rick
Peru
Petraeus, David
Pfeiffer, Dan
Plouffe, David
Podesta, John
police
political action committees (PACs)
super PACs
Politico
populism
Portman, Rob
Powell, Colin
Powell, Lewis
Power, Samantha
President’s Daily Brief
Principals Committee
progressives
“Project Dave”
Promised Land, A (Obama)
Promise Me, Dad (Biden)
Promises to Keep (Biden)
Proud Boys
Pryor, Mark
Psaki, Jen
public option
Putin, Vladimir
race
Raimondo, Gina
Rasky, Larry
Reagan, Ronald
RealClearPolitics
Reddy, Vinay
Reed, Bruce
Reed, Jack
Reed, Kasim
Reeves, Keanu
Regan, Michael
Reid, Harry
Reines, Philippe
Renzi, Matteo
Republican National Committee (RNC)
Republican nomination campaigns: (2008); (2010); (2012); (2016)
Republican Party
Rhodes, Ben
Ricchetti, Steve
Rice, Condoleezza
Rice, Susan
Richards, Ann
Richardson, Bill
Richmond, Cedric
Riedel, Bruce
Roberts, John
Roberts, Robin
Robinson, Marian
Rochester, Lisa Blunt
Rockwell, Norman
Romer, Christina
Romney, Mitt
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Teddy
Rospars, Joe
Roth, Bill
Rouse, Pete
Rubin, Robert
Ruemmler, Kathy
Rumsfeld, Donald
Russell, Richard
Russert, Tim
Russia
Ryan, Evan
Ryan, Jack
Ryan, Paul
Ryan, Tim
Saltzman, Bettylu
same-sex marriage
Sanders, Bernie
Sanders, Symone
Sandy Hook school shootings
Sanford, Mark
Santelli, Rick
Santorum, Rick
Sarandos, Ted
Scalia, Antonin
Schaitberger, Harold
Schakowsky, Jan
Schale, Steve
Schieffer, Bob
Schiliro, Phil
Schmidt, Eric
school busing
Schrum, Michael
Schultz, Eric
Schultz, Greg
Schumer, Chuck
Sebelius, Kathleen
Second Acts (Updegrove)
Second Amendment
Secret Service
segregationists
September 11, 2001
Service Employees International Union
Shakir, Faiz
Shapp, Milton
Sharpton, Al
Sheehan, Michael
Sheekey, Kevin
Shomon, Dan
Shrum, Bob
Silver, Nate
Simas, David
Simon, Paul
Simons, James
Sinema, Kyrsten
single-payer
Sisolak, Steve
60 Minutes
slavery
Smith, James
Snowe, Olympia
Social Security
Solis Doyle, Patti
Soros, George
Soul of America, The (Meacham)
South Carolina
South Ossetia
Souza, Pete
Soviet Union. See also Russia
Spears, Britney
Specter, Arlen
Spielberg, Steven
Springsteen, Bruce
Staples, Mavis
Starr, Bart
State Department
Stennis, John
Stephanopoulos, George
Stewart, Mitch
Steyer, Tom
stimulus of 2009
stock buybacks
student loan debt relief
Sullivan, Andrew
Sullivan, Jake
Summers, Larry
Super Tuesday
Susman, Louis
Swalwell, Eric
Syria
Taliban
Talmadge, Herman
taxes
Teamsters
Team USA
Tea Party
Ten Year War, The (Cohn)
Tester, Jon
Tewes, Paul
Texas
Third Way
Thomas, Clarence
Thurmond, Strom
Tindell, Kip
Toomey, Pat
Tough Love (Rice)
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Treasury Department
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
Trudeau, Justin
Truman, Harry S.
Trumka, Richard
Trump, Donald
ACA and
ascertainment delay and
Biden and
Comey and
COVID-19 and
danger of
elections and: (2016); (2020)
impeachments of
inauguration of
January 6 and
Obama and
race and
Trump, Ivanka
Tsongas, Paul
Turnbull, Malcolm
Ukraine
unemployment
United Auto Workers
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
committees: Finance; Foreign Relations; Intelligence; Judiciary
U.S. Supreme Court
United Kingdom (UK)
United Nations
Updegrove, Mark K.
USA Today
Van Buren, Martin
Van Hollen, Chris
Veterans Affairs Department
Vietnam War
View, The (TV show)
Vilsack, Tom
Violence Against Women Act
Virginia
Virginia Tech shootings
Voinovich, George
Volcker, Paul
voting rights
Vox News
Wallace, George
Wall Street Journal
Warner, Mark
Warren, Elizabeth
Washington, George
Washington Post
Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
Webster, Daniel
Weiner, Anthony
What It Takes (Cramer)
White House Correspondents Association
White House Vice Presidency, The (Goldstein)
white supremacists
white voters
White Working Class (Williams)
Whitman, Meg
Whitmer, Gretchen
Why Liberalism Failed (Deneen)
WikiLeaks
Wilhelm, David
Will and Grace (TV show)
Williams, Brian
Williams, Joan C.
Winfrey, Oprah
Wisconsin
Wolf, Robert
women
Woodward, Bob
working class
World as It Is, The (Rhodes)
World Economic Forum
World Trade Organization
World Wildlife Fund
Wright, Jeremiah
Xi Jinping
young voters
Ziblatt, Daniel
Zients, Jeff
Zuckerberg, Mark
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gabriel Debenedetti is the national correspondent at New York magazine, where he writes about politics and national affairs. Previously, he covered politics for Politico and Reuters. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Economist, Politico Magazine, and the New Republic. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Preface
PART I
1 2003–2004
2 2004–2006
3 2007–2008
4 2008
5 2008
6 2008–2009
7 2009
8 2009–2010
9 2010–2011
10 2012
PART II
11 2012–2013
12 2013–2015
13 2015
14 2016
15 2016–2017
16 2017–2018
17 2018–2019
18 2019
19 2020
20 2020–2021
Afterword
A Note on Sources
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Copyright
THE LONG ALLIANCE: THE IMPERFECT UNION OF JOE BIDEN AND BARACK OBAMA. Copyright © 2022 by Gabriel Debenedetti. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 120 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10271.
www.henryholt.com
Cover design by Alex Camlin
Cover photograph © Alex Wong / Getty Images
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
e-ISBN 9781250829986
First Edition 2022
Our e-books may be purchased in bulk for promotional, educational, or business use. Please contact the Macmillan Corporate and Premium Sales Department at (800) 221-7945, extension 5442, or by e-mail at MacmillanSpecialMarkets@macmillan.com.
Gabriel Debenedetti, The Long Alliance
