Joe Biden : the life, the run, and what matters now
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Published
New York : Scribner, 2020.
Format
Book
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
ISBN
9781982174026, 1982174021
Physical Desc
ix, 177 pages ; 22 cm
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
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North County Branch - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | B BIDEN | Available |
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Nonfiction | 324.2736 BIDEN OSN | Available |
Bernardsville Public Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | BIO Biden, Joe | Available |
Long Hill Library - Adult Nonfiction | BIOG BIDEN | Available |
Morris County Library - Adult Nonfiction | 328.73 BID OSN | Available |
Morristown-Morris Township Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | BIOG BIDEN | Available |
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Published
New York : Scribner, 2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9781982174026, 1982174021
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176).
Description
-- The New Yorker 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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Osnos, E. (2020). Joe Biden: the life, the run, and what matters now (First Scribner hardcover edition.). Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Osnos, Evan, 1976-. 2020. Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now. Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Osnos, Evan, 1976-. Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now Scribner, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Osnos, Evan. Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now First Scribner hardcover edition., Scribner, 2020.
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