Biographer Evan Osnos Describes Unifying Personality in ‘Joe Biden’

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🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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As a 30-year-old first-time senator from Delaware, Joe Biden had high hopes that he would end up in the White House. Over the course of more than three decades in the senate and two terms as vice president, Biden’s career was marked by his moderate political positions, personal tragedy and some controversy, including his support for a 1994 tough-on-crime bill. We talk with New Yorker journalist Evan Osnos about his new biography of president-elect Joe Biden and hear how Biden’s life and career experiences might help him mend a divided country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.6	And welcome to Forum. I'm Michael Krasny. People across the Bay Area took to the streets over the weekend to celebrate the election of Joe Biden and Oakland native Kamala Harris.
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1:16.6	us not a preview of Biden Harris administration is New Yorker journalist Evan Osnos, who is
1:21.4	staff writer for The New Yorker, author of a new biography, Joe Biden, The Life, the Run, and
1:25.4	What Matters Now and welcome welcome, Evan Osnos.
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