Joe Biden American Dreamer
Bloomsbury
The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos 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 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 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 His trials have forged in him a deep empathy for others in hardship 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 Biden s 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 a man who just may be uncannily suited for his moment in history
