Joe Biden [the life, the run, and what matters now]
(Audiobook CD)
Author
Contributors
Published
[New York, N.Y.] : Simon & Schuster Audio ;, [2020].
Format
Audiobook CD
Edition
Unabridged.
ISBN
9781797122670
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (4 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Media
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LC Subjects
Audiobooks.
Biden, Joseph R., -- Jr.
Biographies.
Legislators -- Biography.
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2020.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
United States. -- Congress. -- Senate -- Biography.
Vice-presidents -- Biography.
Biden, Joseph R., -- Jr.
Biographies.
Legislators -- Biography.
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2020.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
United States. -- Congress. -- Senate -- Biography.
Vice-presidents -- Biography.
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Published
[New York, N.Y.] : Simon & Schuster Audio ;, [2020].
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
ISBN
9781797122670
Notes
General Note
"Featuring a converstaion with David Remnick and the author"--Container insert.
Participants/Performers
Read by the author.
Description
An examination of Democratic Nominee Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s lifelong quest for the presidency by National Book Award winner Evan Osnos, adapted from nearly a decade of his reporting for 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. Osnos 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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Osnos, E., & Remnick, D. (2020). Joe Biden: [the life, the run, and what matters now] (Unabridged.). Simon & Schuster Audio ;.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Osnos, Evan, 1976- and David. Remnick. 2020. Joe Biden: [the Life, the Run, and What Matters Now]. Simon & Schuster Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Osnos, Evan, 1976- and David. Remnick. Joe Biden: [the Life, the Run, and What Matters Now] Simon & Schuster Audio, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Osnos, Evan, and David Remnick. Joe Biden: [the Life, the Run, and What Matters Now] Unabridged., Simon & Schuster Audio ;, 2020.
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