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03442aam a2200409 i 4500 001 61FC3C627D3B11EE9BA621765EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231107010036 008 230717t20232023nyu d 000 0beng d 020 $a 0593607619 020 $a 9780593607619 040 $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 14 $a E916 $b .F64 2023b 082 04 $a 973.934 $2 23/eng/20230928 100 1 $a Foer, Franklin, $e author. 245 14 $a The last politician : $b inside Joe Biden's White House and the struggle for America's future / $c Franklin Foer. 250 $a First large print edition. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Random House Large Print, $c [2023] 300 $a 620 pages (large print) ; $c 24 cm. 340 $n large print (16 point) $2 rdafs. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-590) and index. 520 $a "On January 20, 2021, standing where only two weeks earlier police officers had battled with right-wing paramilitaries, Joe Biden took his oath of office. The American people were still sick with COVID-19, his economists were already warning him of an imminent financial crisis, and his party, the Democrats, had the barest of majorities in the Senate. Yet, faced with an unprecedented set of crises, Joe Biden decided he would not play defense. Instead, he set out to transform the nation. He proposed the most ambitious domestic spending bills since the 1960s and vowed to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan, ending the nation's longest war and reorienting it toward a looming competition with China. With unparalleled access to the tight inner circle of advisers who have surrounded Biden for decades, Franklin Foer dramatizes in forensic detail the first two years of the Biden presidency, concluding with the historic midterm elections. The result is a gripping and high-definition portrait of a major president at a time when democracy itself seems imperiled. With his back to the wall, Biden resorted to old-fashioned politics: deal-making and compromise. It was a gamble that seemed at first disastrously anachronistic, as he struggled to rally even the support of his own party. Yet, as the midterms drew near, via a series of bills with banal names, Biden somehow found a way to invest trillions of dollars in clean energy, the domestic semiconductor industry, and new infrastructure. Had he done the impossible-breaking decisively with the old Washington consensus to achieve progressive goals? The Last Politician is a landmark work of political reporting-which includes thrilling, blow-by-blow insider reports of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the White House's swift response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine-that is destined to shape history's view of a president in the eye of the storm"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Biden, Joseph R., $c Jr. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 2021- 650 0 $a Political culture $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Presidents $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 655 7 $a Large print books. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Informational works. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 4 945 $a lpt 952 $l YSPD232 $d 20240614011901.0 952 $l EGPB605 $d 20240213095807.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20231121011534.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20231107011047.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=61FC3C627D3B11EE9BA621765EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search