Joe Biden : the life, the run, and what matters now /

-- The New Yorker 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...

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Main Author: Osnos, Evan, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2020
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition
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