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Osnos, Evan, 1976-
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Biden, Joseph R., Jr.
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Vice-Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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Osnos, Evan, 1976-
Biden, Joseph R., Jr.
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Vice-Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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Joe
Biden
: the
life
, the
run
, and
what
matters
now
/ Evan Osnos.
by
Osnos, Evan, 1976-
Scribner, 2020.
Call #:
328.7309 O834j
Subjects
Biden
, Joseph R., Jr.
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Vice-Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
ISBN:
9781982174026 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Description:
ix, 177 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographic references.
Summary:
"Former vice president Joseph R.
Biden
Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest -- fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses and disappointments that he has suffered. Yet even as
Biden
's
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. As he says, "Failure at some point in your
life
is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable." His trials have forged in him a deep empathy for others in hardship--an essential quality as he addresses Americans in the nation's most dire hour in decades. Blending up-close journalism and broader context, Evan Osnos, who won the National Book Award in 2014, draws on his work for The New Yorker to capture the characters and meaning of an extraordinary presidential election. It is based 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. This portrayal illuminates
Biden
's long and eventful career in the Senate, his eight years as Obama's vice president, his sojourn in the political wilderness after being passed over for Hillary Clinton in 2016, his decision to challenge Donald Trump for the presidency, and his choice of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. Osnos ponders the difficulties
Biden
will face if elected and weighs how political circumstances, and changes in the candidate's thinking, have altered his positions. In this nuanced portrait,
Biden
emerges as flawed, yet resolute, and tempered by the flame of tragedy - a man who just may be uncannily suited for his moment in history."
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