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The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos β A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the Year
'A thoroughly readable primer' Guardian
'Biden has overcome unimaginable tribulation, multiple presidential primary humiliations, a potentially crippling speech impediment and his own mediocrity. Now he carries the hopes of billions upon his shoulders' Sunday Times
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest β fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses that he has suffered.
Yet even as Bidenβs life has been shaped by drama, it has also been powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to confront his shortcomings, errors, and reversals of fortune. His trials have forged in him a deep empathy for others in hardship β an essential quality as he addresses a nation at its most dire hour in decades.
Blending up-close journalism and broader context, Evan Osnos illuminates Bidenβs life and captures the characters and meaning of an extraordinary presidential election. He draws on lengthy interviews with Biden and on revealing conversations with more than a hundred others, including President Barack Obama, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, and a range of progressive activists, advisers, opponents, and Biden family members.
In this nuanced portrait, Biden emerges as flawed, yet resolute, and tempered by the flame of tragedy β a man who just may be uncannily suited for his moment in history.
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Critics praise Osnos's fast-paced biography as eloquent and well-informed. The Guardian highlights the sense of awe inspired by Bidenβs perseverance through tragedy and political hurdles, while the Sunday Times emphasises his capacity to bear immense responsibility despite past humiliations. The Financial Times commends the book as beautifully written, suggesting Biden may be more radical in office than expected. Overall, reviews underscore the bookβs thoroughness and insightful portrayal.
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ISBN: 9781526635198
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 May 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 141g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Evan Osnos has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2008. His most recent book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, won the National Book Award, among other honours. Previously he reported from China, Iraq and elsewhere for the Chicago Tribune, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He lives with his wife and children in Washington, DC.
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