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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 Age of Ambition, 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.

In search of an explanation for the crisis that reached an unsettling crescendo in 2020 - a year of pandemic, civil unrest, and political turmoil - National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returned to three places he knew firsthand: Greenwich, Connecticut; Clarksburg, West Virginia; and Chicago, Illinois. Reported over the course of six years, Wildland follows ordinary individuals as they navigate the varied landscapes of 21st-century America. Through their powerful, often poignant stories, Osnos traces the sources of America’s political dissolution.

A concise, brilliant, and trenchant examination of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s successful lifelong quest for the presidency by National Book Award winner Evan Osnos. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest - fortunate to have sustained a 50-year political career that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses and disappointments that he has suffered.

"Joe Biden ist zugleich der unglücklichste und der glücklichste Mensch, den ich kenne." Das sagt ein Weggefährte über den Mann, der bei der Präsidentschaftswahl 2020 Donald J. Trump besiegte. Der vielfach ausgezeichnete Journalist Evan Osnos begleitet den designierten 46. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten seit Jahren und hat ihn immer wieder interviewt, zuletzt im Sommer 2020.

Esta biografia é um exame conciso, brilhante e contundente da bem-sucedida busca de Joe Biden, ao longo de uma vida inteira, pela presidência dos Estados Unidos. Aqui, o premiado jornalista Evan Osnos revela o papel do político como vice-presidente de Barack Obama, detalha a difícil decisão de se lançar candidato no pleito de 2020 e os bastidores da luta pela nomeação do Partido Democrata e da disputa contra Donald Trump pela Casa Branca.