Joe Biden : the life, the run, and what matters now / Evan Osnos.
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- 2 of 3 copies available at Sage Library System.
- 0 of 1 copy available at Hood River County Library District. (Show)
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Summary:
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.| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Age Hold Protection | Active/Create Date | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hood River County Library | 921 BIDEN 2020 (Text) | 33892100708305 | Adult New Books | Book | None | 11/12/2020 | In transit | - |
| Baker County Library | 328.73092 .B585o 2020 (Text) | 37814003315653 | NON-FICTION - NEW | Book | System_Only_3months | 11/13/2020 | Available | - |
| Milton-Freewater Public Library | 921 Biden (Text) | 37862000470997 | Adult Non-Fiction | Book | Branch_Only_3months | 12/17/2020 | Available | - |
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982174026
- ISBN: 1982174021
- Physical Description: ix, 177 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue -- Annus Horribilis -- What it took -- "Grow up" -- Veep -- Envoy -- The lucky and the unlucky -- Battle for the soul -- Planning a presidency. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. |
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