Evan Osnos
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
A concise, brilliant and trenchant examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency 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 that he has suffered. Yet even as Biden's life has been shaped by drama, it has also been powered by...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic and cultural upheaval. In this text, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country - the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party's struggle to retain control.