Uncharted

How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History

De: Chris Whipple

Narrado por: Mark Bramhall

The New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers and The Spymasters now turns his sharp eye towards the historic 2024 presidential race, providing the definitive, insider account of the most dramatic and significant political showdown in modern American history.

A disastrous debate, a would-be assassin’s bullet, an electrifying eleventh hour candidate swap, dramatic and surprising VP selections, betrayals behind closed doors, charges of a stolen election, game-changing blunders—the history-making 2024 presidential election is a political saga of Shakespearean proportions. In minute-by-minute detail, esteemed White House historian and political analyst Chris Whipple chronicles the unprecedented drama as it unfolds, documenting the true story of the Harris and Trump campaigns and the difficult, urgent decisions made in the back rooms of power, with the future of American democracy at stake.

Alternating between the Biden/Harris/Walz and the Trump/Vance camps, Whipple tells the fly-on-the-wall story of campaign 2024, drawing on his unique access to exclusive sources on both sides, including conversations with members of the candidates’ inner circles. Whipple goes behind the scenes of every headline-making moment to reveal how a post-debate intra-party rebellion forced Biden to step aside, how the nomination of Vice President Harris at a thrilling convention reshaped the race, how Harris rallied excited voters across generations and demographics, but ultimately could not overcome the underlying weaknesses of her campaign. Whipple also burrows inside Donald Trump’s campaign to reveal startling new insights into how he overcame primary opponents and multiple prosecutions, rebranded his base to appeal to Gen Z voters, and forged powerful alliances with Silicon Valley CEOs like Elon Musk.

An intimate portrait of American politics on the edge, filled with previously untold stories, anecdotes, and insights, Uncharted is the authoritative account of this pivotal chapter in American politics. As he brings to life the most dramatic and important presidential campaign of the modern age and puts it into historical perspective, Whipple exposes how ambition, conviction, and resilience collide at the highest echelons of power, offering a deeper understanding of the forces that define a divided nation.

©2025 Chris Whipple (P)2025 HarperCollins Publishers

Another Rehash of What We Already Knew

As with another recent book on this subject, Fight, I have found that Uncharted covers the same information already released to the public following the 2024 Presidential Election. Nothing new, same old-same old…

Meh

Painted Biden as a victim, spoke of Harris in glowing terms, all things Trump (other than Suzie Wiles) is authoritarian and vile. Typical left-wing echo chamber talking points. isn't hard enough on the Harris campaign or give the appropriate credit to Trump's. Wouldn't recommend.

Nothing new

This book came out just a few weeks after fight by Allen and Parnes; and in my opinion that was the better book. This book did have some details about the Harris campaign, Bidens issues with cognitive decline, but on the whole, the Allen and Parnes book (called Fight) went deeper, provides more details, and I also found it to be less biased. If you’re looking for the best book on how Trump beat Harris, I’d recommend Fight over this. And for both books, it’s a bit shocking that the authors were so surprised by what almost anyone looking at Biden could see! Still, I’m glad that I listened to it.

If only they'd given him a better seat at MSG!

For a chapter or two I thought this guy might be writing right down the middle but, alas, rather early on his bias burst through and stayed there. And when he got to the Trump rally at MSG and whined about being relegated to the "nosebleed" section, all credibility was gone. Reads swiftly but there are only so many times you can call Trump a liar without explaining why before suspicion sets in.

Interesting

Obvious the authors hated Trump But I didn’t dislike this book. Wish it didn’t have the author’s disdain

Slanted and Uncredible

Entertaining.

However, its slant against Trump paired with the lack of any objective criticism for the tactical failures of Harris erodes its credibility.

Too much about trump

Insightful only about the Biden/Harris campaign and their failures. I really didn't care much about insider information about trump.

Just Tell the Story

Just discuss the facts. Present the story. Biased and childish in his descriptions of anything Trump. Chris is mad. Trump won. “If only the world knew how amazing Biden was, he would’ve won.” There are better books about this subject.

Should Have Been Called “How The Good Guys Lost”

The material on Biden’s actions doesn’t offer much that hasn’t been revealed and his references to Trump’s issues ignored fact checks like the Charlottesville recording of what Trump actually said. Whipple also falsely claimed that the Dobbs decision stripped women of their “right” to an abortion. Whipple also offers the highly weak claim that Tim Walz was called “Tampon Tim” because of his support for women’s rights. That is a ridiculously contrived explanation that probably appears here for the first time ever. The widely known reason for that nickname is because as governor, he put tampon machines in boys’ school bathrooms to accommodate menstruating girls who identified as boys.
An author has no responsibility to one side or the other, but they should conduct sound reporting. Also, the book was promoted as an expose of the Biden campaign mistakes and misdeeds and barely was even that.

Great story, a bit disorganized

Very interesting analysis but I had the impression he wanted to get it out fast and lost some of the careful editing needed. For the example the debate is explained three times at different parts of the book.