Joe Biden: American Dreamer by Evan Osnos - Non Fiction - Paperback

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Details. Condition: Brand New. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781526635198. Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing. Age Range: Adult. Overview. Joe Biden: American Dreamer is Evan Osnos's concise, character-driven biography of the 46th President of the United States. Drawing on extensive personal interviews and reporting for The New Yorker, Osnos traces Biden's improbable path from personal tragedy to the White House. This brand-new paperback offers politically curious readers, students, and gift-buyers a readable, richly reported account of a life shaped by resilience, loss, and persistence in American public service.. About the Book. National Book Award winner Evan Osnos draws on lengthy interviews with Joe Biden himself, alongside more than a hundred conversations with family members, colleagues, rivals, and advisers, to build a nuanced portrait of a man often underestimated across his long political career. The book moves through the defining moments of Biden's life: the car accident that killed his first wife and infant daughter shortly after his election to the Senate, the death of his son Beau, decades navigating Washington politics, and his eventual, hard-won rise to the presidency after two earlier failed campaigns. Osnos situates these chapters within the currents of American political life, examining how grief shaped Biden's instincts as legislator and later commander-in-chief. Rather than a campaign biography, the book is an intimate character study of the man and the country that elected him. Praised by the Financial Times, Guardian, and Daily Express as a Book of the Year, and described by the Guardian as a genuinely readable primer, this is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the man behind the headlines. Whether picked up as a first introduction to Biden's story or as a deeper companion for lifelong political followers, the book balances sympathy with clear-eyed scrutiny, making the case for Biden's particular suitability to a moment of national