The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos
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.
Treads back along the trail of horrendous tragedies, dashed hopes
and dramatic implosions that preceded Biden's improbable third run
at the presidency . . . It is impossible to come away from Osnos's
biography without a sense of awe at what Biden has overcome to
arrive at this point . . . Osnos has written a fast-paced biography
that draws on extensive interviews with his subject, as well as
with Obama and a host of Democratic party heavyweights * Guardian
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There's just something about Joe, as this short biography from New
Yorker writer Evan Osnos illustrates. At 77, 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
. . . Osnos's slim volume . . . is a good primer on the man who
could soon be president . . . Eloquent and well-informed * Sunday
Times *
What kind of president would Biden make? Osnos, who has been
writing about Biden for years for the New Yorker, believes he could
be more radical in office than people who have tracked his career
might believe . . . [A] beautifully written short volume *
Financial Times *
This portrait of the president-elect reveals Biden's flaws but also
the compassion and courage needed to start America's healing
process * Observer *
Beautifully written . . . A light, enjoyable read . . . Osnos gives
you a taste of what could be to come under a Biden presidency ...
He has a delightful turn of phrase * Telegraph *
A timely and stylish work at a key juncture in US history . . .
This book tries to get behind Joe Biden the person to analyse Joe
Biden the politician . . . [It] is strongest on Biden's
relationship with Obama, where the author draws on interviews he
conducted with both men when they were in the White House . . . As
Osnos moves to Biden's most recent political chapter, his analysis
of how a Biden presidency might work is fascinating . . . Osnos's
fluid style, access to Biden, and insightful analysis makes it a
worthwhile and eminently readable portrait * Irish Times *
Brimming with insights into America's new president-elect . . . A
richly detailed profile . . . Osnos - an award-winning journalist -
spoke with more than 100 people in Biden's orbit and interviewed
the former senator four times . . . The overarching image Osnos
presents is that of a veteran American legislator whose moment has
finally, and improbably, arrived * Herald *
A pithy and succinct biography * The Times *
Evan Osnos is an immensely talented reporter . . . Joe Biden ably
takes the measure of the man and the politician * Washington Post
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Gives the low-down on the new leader of the free world. Everything
about Biden is refreshing after Trump: his unrelenting centrism,
deep mourning for his first wife and youngest son, even his version
of being old is in contrast to the present ogre * Daily Express *
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