National Award-winning journalist Evan Osnos offers a brief biography of Joe Biden focused primarily on the political dimensions of Biden’s adult life up to the time of his 2020 presidential nomination. Because Biden’s brand of politics is personality-driven, the human drama and personal style of Biden loom large in the story. Through Osnos’s balanced portrayal, Biden is seen as shaped by catastrophic tragedy, self-inflicted fumbles, incredible good luck, and an outlook shaped by faith and optimism. Biden’s ideology is difficult to pinpoint because he has taken conservative positions on some issues and progressive positions on others. Taken together, Biden comes across as a moderate. This is ironic because Biden rarely takes a moderate stand; his politics just seem that way on average. Osnos knows how to effectively use telling details, which allows him to leave out a lot and still convey the essence of Biden’s pragmatic appeal. When the book ends, the COVID-19 pandemic is three or four months old with no vaccine in sight, the 2020 presidential election is a few months in the future, the January 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol has not taken place, and Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election were predictable but not yet in play. With our knowledge of how these events eventually transpired, readers can easily discern the seeds of these episodes in the narrative and connect them to what we are seeing in the early-going of the Biden presidency.
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