Summary of Evan Osnos’s Joe Biden

In Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now (2020), Evan Osnos examines the 50-year political career of the future president. Based on lengthy interviews with Biden and other important political figures, this portrayal explores Biden’s flaws and virtues, his time in the Senate, his years as vice president, and his campaign for the presidency in 2020. It was published before his victory in the election, but Osnos also looks at what Biden would need to achieve as president, from holding Donald Trump’s administration accountable to forging a better path for American power and democracy.