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Evan Osnos gives us a balanced picture of Joe Biden. I came into the book knowing only that I preferred Biden to Trump. After reading, I have a clear sense of the man himself, and I am truly excited to vote for such a fine and capable human being! As a bonus, I found the book itself a delight to read!
Please note: this review is of the book and not the man himself or his politics. With only a week to go until the US election, I felt I should learn a little more about Biden as a person as I realise I know almost nothing about an individual who could soon be president of one of the world's superpowers. In this concise yet informative portrayal Evan Osnos offers a nuanced, deeply-reported and three-dimensional portrait of Biden and illuminates his long and eventful fifty-year political career an...
Worst Book ever Written about the most corrupt Politian in History. Extremely bad from Page 1. 100% Garbage. Do not Read
Joe Biden is many things to many people: saviour, traitor, fool, political genius, revolutionary, reactionary... to Evan Osnos, he is simply "an accidental area of expertise". Osnos, you see, had at the time of writing this book, through no fault of his own, met and spoken to the now-President now fewer than four times. With that level of unique subject knowledge, rare among modern journalists, it was perhaps inevitable that he'd write a book on the topic.And yet, as a reader, I found myself wis...
In the waning months of 2020, a year that the author of this book Evan Osnos describes with the Latin “annus horribilis,” my friend Troy and I endeavored to complete the most ambitious reading challenge yet attempted by our group of friends: we would read one biography on every US president. Truly an epic undertaking. After all, if self-reporting is to be believed, the average American reads only twelve books a year! Maybe only one of those twelve would be a hefty biographical tome, but we were
RescueJoe Biden was is US President-elect and will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, on January 20th following the most important, divisive, and insane election in American history. An election that I’m sure psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, politicists and historians will pour over for decades, and that’s without taking into consideration epidemiologists, economists, geoscientists, environmentalists, criminologists and sociopath hunters.The unpredictable roller...
Audiobook....read by Evan Osnos and David Remnick 4 hrs. 26 minutesCONGRATULATIONS....to Joe R. Biden Jr. *46* President.This is a quick read - or an afternoon ‘listen’ > think ‘daily briefing’. .....Osnos gives us a well researched balance view of Joe - the man....(character, & personal intimate history)Joe -his long career in politics....(trials and tribulations)Joe - the possibilities of his visions for the future.Yesterday’s inauguration was a new beginning.In Biden’s speech, “he called for
I have decided to embark on a mission to read a number of books on subjects that will be of great importance to the upcoming 2020 US Presidential Election. Many of these will focus on actors intricately involved in the process, in hopes that I can understand them better and, perhaps, educate others with the power to cast a ballot. I am, as always, open to serious recommendations from anyone who has a book I might like to include in the process. This is Book #33 in my 2020 US Election Preparation...
A priest is being summoned to deliver Joe Biden his late rites.This is how the book begins. If you would have told me I’d be reading a non-fiction book about a politician a year ago, I would have said you were crazy. This year has me gobbling up every non-fiction book I can get my hands on… and this is one I’m glad I got my hands on.Back in 2008 when Obama announced who would be his vice president, I was like umm.. who is THIS guy?! For someone who has had such a long political career, I had nev...
This short book is a brief biography of Biden's life and political career up to the close of the 2020 presidential election. It gives a balanced view of the man focusing on his positive attributes, the well known tragedies in his life, and his many flaws such as his foot in mouth syndrome. I found the chapter on his vice-presidency interesting. He was a strong defender of Obama even against fellow Democrats who were critical of Obama in Congress. The beef between Biden and former Defense Secreta...
Hell, I might be president now if it weren't for the fact I said I had an uncle who was a coal miner. Turns out I didn't have anybody in the coal mines, you know what I mean? I tried that crap — it didn't work.-Joe Biden, interview with Jon Stewart, 2004Joe Biden may have been one of the most underestimated people in the whole of the 2020 election season. After a string of primary losses in Iowa and New Hampshire, he was left for dead by the media, and some of the voices online were ready to dec...
This is not a whole book, but a long New Yorker profile with a few extra pages tacked on. I wish it hadn't been rushed to press like this and made into a proper biography.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. dubbed both the luckiest and the unluckiest man.We know Biden, but we also don’t know much about him so in my quest to find the book about our president elect, I devoured this book, a quick read and great insight about what made him as he is today. Osnos delivered a deftly written biography of a man whose road to the White House was through an impressive fifty-year political career. In this captivating portrait of a man whose losses, suffering, ambitions, and values , friends...
A very short book on the biography of Joe Biden. After dealing with Donald Trump for four years we have stability and honesty instead of Trump's almost apocalyptic doom disaster. This book gave me insight into Joe Biden's background, career and lifetime spent in politics. The result is a portrait of a man that's smart, surefooted, intelligent, experienced and compassionate something we surely have missed for four years. A man who just may be uncannily suited for this moment in history. He has in...
DNF after 100 pages of disappointment. One of the worst "biographies" I've read so far. And I'm not even sure if this book can officially be viewed as a biography at all. The first hour is basically about how bad of a person and statesman Donald Trump is and how Joe Biden would be the "better angel", as Steven Pinker would call it.Also there is no chronological order whatsoever. I felt lost almost the whole time since I didn't know anything about JBs early life and career. The author jumped back...
Not a bad biography of Joe Biden A timely read
Great Bio ! 🎧
The information here was really good; its organization and flow were really bad.
This was a delight! I'm glad I listened to it and got to know a little more about our President. The author came across pretty balanced- it wasn't all glowing praise. But I did come away with having a more full picture about who Joe Biden is as a person, and what parts of his life are likely to inform the way he'll lead the country. Bonus on audio- the author shares an interview with Biden at the end.
Very good, short political biography. Gives a great sense of who Biden is - his strengths, insecurities, weaknesses, values.