Joe Biden

Name: Joe Biden
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jules Witcover
ISBN: 9780062061621

Author: Jules Witcover

Narrator: Jason Culp

Unabridged: 19 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper Audio

Published: 10/26/2010

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

Distinguished political columnist and veteran Washington correspondent Jules Witcover brings us an honest, meticulously researched, and up-to-date biography of one of America’s boldest vice presidents: Joe Biden. A fascinating portrait of an outspoken man of courage and strength who rose up from working class roots and has persevered over numerous personal and professional setbacks, Joe Biden is a classic political Cinderella story that gives readers a close-up look at this sometimes explosive and controversial politician and his role in the Obama White House.

About Jules Witcover

Jules Witcover has been writing from Washington on politics and history since 1954, first for the Newhouse Newspapers, then the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Star and Baltimore Sun, and his column is syndicated by the [Chicago] Tribune Company. His twenty books include 85 Days: The Last Campaign of Robert Kennedy, The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power, The Resurrection of Richard Nixon, The Year the Dream Died: Revisitng 1968 in America, accounts of the presidential elections from 1976 through 1992, and biographies of Vice Presidents Spiro Agnew and Joe Biden.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy on November 04, 2019

Jules Witcover's biography Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption has been updated and rereleased. Reading this book helped me to understand Biden's career, his consistent strengths and weaknesses, and his deeply held values. I found the biography to be interesting, informative, accessible, and e......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on May 07, 2021

This updated version of Jules Witcover's Joe Biden serves as an excellent cradle-to-present biography of USA's current president. It reaches into 2020 and the beginnings of the presidential campaign, without introducing the global pandemic that reduced it to a strange and nearly elusive appearance.......more