As part of our “Women on Wednesdays” series, please join the Women & Politics Institute for a virtual conversation with Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, co-authors of  Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency, “the inside story of the historic 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden’s harrowing ride to victory.” WPI Executive Director Betsy Fischer Martin will facilitate the discussion.

From the bestselling authors of Shattered, Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes’ new book Lucky considers the odds of President Joe Biden’s return to the White House. Between the mid-campaign pandemic, his larger-than-life incumbent opponent, and a field of more than two dozen Democratic contenders that represented a broad spectrum of party ideology, age, race, and gender, many are surprised to see Biden at the helm today. Lucky chronicles Biden’s unpredictable path to the presidency, the historic selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate and what lies ahead for the Biden administration, and the Democratic party.

Jonathan Allen is a senior political analyst with NBC News digital. A winner of the Dirksen and Hume awards for reporting, he was previously the White House bureau chief for Politico and the Washington bureau chief for Bloomberg News.

Amie Parnes is a senior correspondent for The Hill newspaper in Washington, where she covers the Biden White House and national politics. She was previously a staff writer at Politico, where she covered the Senate, the 2008 presidential campaign, and the Obama White House.

Betsy Fischer Martin is an Emmy-winning journalist and former TV news executive. Currently, she is the Executive Director of the Women & Politics Institute at American University and a faculty member in the School of Public Affairs, where she teaches courses on campaigns and elections. During her earlier career in television news, she spent 23 years at NBC News serving as the longtime Executive Producer of Meet the Press with Tim Russert and as the Managing Editor of NBC News Political Programming.

A native of New Orleans, Fischer Martin did her undergraduate and graduate work at American University in Washington, DC. She is a cum laude graduate of their School of Public Affairs and earned a master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from the AU School of Communication.

“Women On Wednesdays”: Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes - “Lucky”