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03674aim a2200481 i 4500 001 CDA49F88652711EBAC2324F85BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210202012344 007 sd 008 201110s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1797122673 020 $a 9781797122670 020 $a 1797122681 020 $a 9781797122687 035 $a (OCoLC)1204287941 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Osnos, Evan. 245 1 $a Joe Biden $h [audio book] : $b the life, the run, and what matters now / $c Evan Osnos. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Simon & Schuster Audio, $c [2020] 300 $a 4 audio discs (approximately 4 1/2 hr.) : $b CD audio, digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a Title from container. 500 $a Compact discs. 511 $a Read by the author, with a conversation between David Remnick and the author. 520 $a 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. 541 $d 20210106. 600 1 $a Biden, Joseph R., $c Jr. 610 1 $a United States $b Senate $b Senate $v Biography. 650 $a Legislators $z United States $v Biography. 650 $a Vice-Presidents $z United States $x Biography. 650 4 $a Presidents $z United States $x Election $y 2020. 651 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1945-1989. 651 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1989- 655 7 $a Biographies. 655 7 $a Audiobooks. 700 $a Remnick, David, $e narrator. 941 $a 4 945 $a cdab 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20210703010544.0 952 $l JKPC771 $d 20210703010422.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20210302012012.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20210202022005.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CDA49F88652711EBAC2324F85BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search