Joe Biden : the life, the run, and what matters now
/ Evan Osnos
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2020
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First Scribner hardcover edition.
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| Bloomfield, McMahon Wintonbury Library - Adult Department | BIOG. BIDEN, J. | Check Shelf | ||
| Cromwell-Belden Public Library - New Materials | B BIDEN J. | Check Shelf | ||
| East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult New Materials | B BIDEN JOE | Check Shelf | ||
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| South Windsor Public Library - New Materials | B BIDEN | Check Shelf | ||
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| Edition |
First Scribner hardcover edition.
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| Description |
ix, 177 pages ; 22 cm
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| Contents |
Prologue -- Annus Horribilis -- What it took -- "Grow up" -- Veep -- Envoy -- The lucky and the unlucky -- Battle for the soul -- Planning a presidency.
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| 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. 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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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176).
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| ISBN |
9781982174026 (hardcover)
1982174021 (hardcover)
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