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Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Promise Me, Dad chronicles the year that followed, which would be the most momentous and challenging in Joe Biden?s extraordinary life and career. Vice President Biden traveled more than a hundred thousand miles that year, across the world, dealing with crises in Ukraine, Central America, and Iraq. When a call came from New York, or Capitol Hill, or Kyiv, or Baghdad?“Joe, I need your help”?he responded. For twelve months, while Beau fought for...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawing on interviews and never-before-seen documents from the highest levels of government, two New York Times reporters, in an account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency, expose the divisions within both political parties and how the American two-party system is under siege.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Taking readers behind the scenes of one of America's most consequential presidencies, a journalist with unprecedented access to the White House reveals how President Joe Biden and his seasoned team have battled to achieve their agenda, delivering a surprising portrait of politics on the edge.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Coming off of the 2020 election, THE BIDENS tells the Biden Family story in full, from the secrets lurking in the deep recesses of Joe's family tree to his son Hunter's foreign deal-making spree-and the Trump gang's ham-handed efforts to exploit it. ?On November 3, Americans did not just elect Joe Biden: They got a package deal. The tight-knit Biden family-siblings, children, in-laws, and beyond-is coming right along with him. They are sure to play...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary partnership of Barack Obama and Joe Biden is unique in American history. The two men, their characters and styles sharply contrasting, formed a dynamic working relationship that evolved into a profound friendship.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Ante la mirada de un mundo sobrecogido tras la invasión del Capitolio de los Estados Unidos, Amanda Gorman tomó la palabra a continuación del presidente Joe Biden. Era la poeta más joven que recitaba en una ceremonia de investidura, como antes lo hicieron Robert Frost o Maya Angelou, y cautivó a millones de personas que veían en ella la luz de una esperanza, y en los versos de La colina que ascendemos la inauguración de una nueva era.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden's campaign. The dirty secrets contained in Hunter's laptop almost derailed his father's presidential campaign and ignited one of the greatest media coverups in American history....
12) Cosas bonitas
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"A la edad de dos años, Hunter Biden resultó gravemente herido en un accidente de coche que acabó con la vida de su madre y de su hermana pequeña. En 2015, sufrió la devastadora pérdida de Beau, su hermano mayor, fallecido de un cáncer cerebral a los cuarenta y seis años. Durante la administración de Trump, Hunter fue objeto de incesantes ataques e insultos por parte del presidente y sus secuaces. Estas dificultades se agravaron a causa del...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A memoir from Valerie Biden Owens, Joe Biden's younger sister, trusted confidante and lifelong campaign manager. Valerie, one of the first female campaign managers in United States history, writes of the role of family, faith, and fate in shaping her life, and the power of empathy and kindness in the face of turmoil and division. Growing Up Biden details Valerie's decades-long professional career in politics, and the central role she played in her...
14) Peril
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Bob Woodward and Robert Costa cover the end of the Trump presidency and the early months of the Biden presidency. The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history. Woodward and Costa take readers deep inside the Trump White House, the Biden White House, the 2020 campaign, and the Pentagon and Congress, with vivid, eyewitness accounts of what really happened....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The ultimate guide to America's favorite vice president, filled with all of the key moments, all of the lessons, and none of the malarkey. The aviators. The Amtrak. The ice cream cones. The memes. Few politicians are as iconic, or as beloved, as Joe Biden. Now, in The Book of Joe, Biden fans will finally have the definitive look at America's favorite vice president?and what he can teach us. Structured around key moments in Biden's life and career?and...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. Throughout the Trump administration, Hunter was the target of nonstop attacks and slurs by the president and his cronies. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and years-long battle...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"On January 20, 2021, standing where only two weeks earlier police officers had battled with right-wing paramilitaries, Joe Biden took his oath of office. The American people were still sick with COVID-19, his economists were already warning him of an imminent financial crisis, and his party, the Democrats, had the barest of majorities in the Senate. Yet, faced with an unprecedented set of crises, Joe Biden decided he would not play defense. Instead,...
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