{"product_id":"9781526635167","title":"Joe Biden : American Dreamer by Osnos Evan Osnos","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003estaff writer Evan Osnos - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDaily Express \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e    \u003cb\u003e'A thoroughly readable primer' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e    \u003cb\u003e'Biden has overcome unimaginable tribulation, multiple presidential primary humiliations, a potentially crippling speech impediment and his own mediocrity. Now he carries the hopes of billions upon his shoulders'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e    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 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. His trials have forged in him a deep empathy for others in hardship   an essential quality as he addresses a nation at its most dire hour in decades.    Blending up-close journalism and broader context, Evan Osnos illuminates Biden s life and captures the characters and meaning of an extraordinary presidential election. He draws 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.     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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303256928629,"sku":"9781526635167","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781526635167.jpg?v=1762794006","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781526635167","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}