The Last Politician
Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future
(Sprache: Englisch)
The New York Times bestseller
Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, with exclusive access to Biden s longtime team of advisers, and presents a gripping portrait of a president during this...
Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, with exclusive access to Biden s longtime team of advisers, and presents a gripping portrait of a president during this...
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The New York Times bestsellerFranklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, with exclusive access to Biden s longtime team of advisers, and presents a gripping portrait of a president during this momentous time in our nation s history.
"You might love Biden or you might hate Biden, but either way, if you want to understand him, you will want to buy this book." Politico
A triumph of reporting. Geoff Bennett, PBS NewsHour
Deeply reported . . . a terrific read. Chuck Todd, Meet the Press
Fantastic . . . The first real insider account of the Biden White House and a fascinating read about Biden himself. Jon Favreau, Pod Save America
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, he set out to transform the nation.
With unparalleled access to the tight inner circle of advisers who have surrounded Biden for decades, Franklin Foer dramatizes in forensic detail the first two years of the Biden presidency, concluding with the historic midterm elections. The result is a gripping and high-definition portrait of a major president at a time when democracy itself seems imperiled.
The Last Politician is a landmark work of political reporting which includes thrilling, blow-by-blow insider reports of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the White House s swift response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine that is destined to shape history s view of a president in the eye of the storm.
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PROLOGUE Joe Biden s inauguration was an image in his mind. It took hold there decades earlier, and it looked something like a brisk winter s day, when the nation s establishment huddled around him, wrapping its arms around the kid from Scranton. It was a triumphalist scene, but also a revenge fantasy, since Washington s liberal elite had long rolled its eyes at him for his loquaciousness, for his stories that were too folksy by half, for his blaring insecurities and he knew it.
The consistent underestimation of Joe Biden was his diesel. It propelled him to keep chasing the image, over the course of three presidential runs. He pursued it into his late seventies, even though diminishingly few of his peers considered it plausible and even though his inability to surrender his ambitions occasionally verged on the undignified.
He believed that fate a word strewn across his monologues sometimes required him to travel the ugly path to success. At every station in his adult life, joy marched in lockstep with trauma. And when the image in his head transposed itself into reality on January 20, 2022, it seemed entirely fitting that the inauguration, which he had so long desired, deviated so wildly from his expectations, and was stalked by death. In the dream version of the day, he solemnly strides onto the stage erected on the west front of the Capitol, through doors held open by marines.
But when that day arrived, the glass in those doors was shattered. Two weeks earlier, right-wing paramilitaries battered them with flag poles and purloined police shields in a violent quest to prevent him from ever taking office. The inaugural dais looked down onto steps, where police officers trying to fight off the surging mob had slipped in pools of blood.
Instead of a democratic extravaganza, his inauguration was surrounded by wire fences and Jersey barriers, guarded by armored vehicles and twenty-six thousand members of the National Guard who descended on Washington
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for the event, determined to prevent a reprise of the violence of the sixth of January.
Even if the public had been permitted to pass through the checkpoints surrounding the city center, it wouldn t have come. Through the winter, it sheltered at home, worried that it might die by inhaling particles of disease wafting in the air. A global pandemic was at its lethal peak. On January 19,the eve of his inaugural, COVID s death toll surpassed four hundred thousand. Despite the development of effective vaccines, the government had scant doses and no effective plan for distributing them. To fill the expanse of the unoccupied Mall, inaugural planners planted two hundred thousand flags across the lawn, representing the absentees. Biden couldn t address an adoring crowd, just sheets fluttering in the wind.
This was not the image in his head. It was a postapocalyptic tableau and the nation that he inherited.
The electorate turned to Joe Biden as a balm. Postmortems of his victory ascribed his success to the fact that voters hoped the kindly grandfather might impose calm and decency, a bit of boredom, and a dose of competence, after four erratic, enervating years of Trump.
But voters expectations for Biden didn t line up with his own.
Born in the middle of World War II, raised in the tense early days of the Cold War, he viewed himself as thrust by events into a successor struggle to preserve democracy. To stave off the authoritarian enemy, he would need to contain the rising force of China and ward off the revanchist ambitions of Russia. It required him to tangibly demonstrate that the American system wasn t the antiquated relic its rivals portrayed. He said that he would prove that democracy could still deliver for its citizens, that it hadn t lost its capacity to accomplish big things.
This was a much
Even if the public had been permitted to pass through the checkpoints surrounding the city center, it wouldn t have come. Through the winter, it sheltered at home, worried that it might die by inhaling particles of disease wafting in the air. A global pandemic was at its lethal peak. On January 19,the eve of his inaugural, COVID s death toll surpassed four hundred thousand. Despite the development of effective vaccines, the government had scant doses and no effective plan for distributing them. To fill the expanse of the unoccupied Mall, inaugural planners planted two hundred thousand flags across the lawn, representing the absentees. Biden couldn t address an adoring crowd, just sheets fluttering in the wind.
This was not the image in his head. It was a postapocalyptic tableau and the nation that he inherited.
The electorate turned to Joe Biden as a balm. Postmortems of his victory ascribed his success to the fact that voters hoped the kindly grandfather might impose calm and decency, a bit of boredom, and a dose of competence, after four erratic, enervating years of Trump.
But voters expectations for Biden didn t line up with his own.
Born in the middle of World War II, raised in the tense early days of the Cold War, he viewed himself as thrust by events into a successor struggle to preserve democracy. To stave off the authoritarian enemy, he would need to contain the rising force of China and ward off the revanchist ambitions of Russia. It required him to tangibly demonstrate that the American system wasn t the antiquated relic its rivals portrayed. He said that he would prove that democracy could still deliver for its citizens, that it hadn t lost its capacity to accomplish big things.
This was a much
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Autoren-Porträt von Franklin Foer
Franklin Foer is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of World Without Mind and How Soccer Explains the World. For seven years, he edited The New Republic.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Franklin Foer
- 2023, 432 Seiten, Masse: 16,3 x 24,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Press
- ISBN-10: 1101981148
- ISBN-13: 9781101981146
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.09.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
How will the history of the Biden administration be written: as the turning point when America began to heal or as a hiatus between moments of deadlock and adversity? Franklin Foer s The Last Politician, an account of Biden s first two years in office, is the first draft of an answer. It has the makings of high drama. Crisis follows crisis . . . Foer s book is above all a psychodrama of America s political class. Adam Tooze, The New York Times Book ReviewJournalist Franklin Foer's new book, The Last Politician, tells the story of a presidency 50 years in the making, diving deep into President Biden's life and career. The book also explores the workings of Biden's current administration and searches for answers on who Biden really is behind the scenes. CBS News
We ve read every Biden book, and Foer s is by far the best study of Biden since Richard Ben Cramer s What it Takes. You might love Biden or you might hate Biden, but either way, if you want to understand him, you will want to buy this book. Politico
Outstanding . . . The Biden presidency is a reminder of why politics matters, why political skills matter, including the dark, sometimes ugly arts of getting legislation passed, often through painful compromise. Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian
Finally a hard, honest look at Joe Biden . . . Foer s book is not hagiography, but it s not hate-mongering, either. It s an honest assessment of Biden as politician and president, his strengths and weaknesses, where he has delivered and where he has not. Bill Press, The Hill
Compelling . . . [Foer] offers a more vivid and comprehensive rendering of the scenes we already knew, while introducing a few that we didn t . . . provides plenty of discrete insights into the Biden presidency. New York Magazine
[M]eticulously researched and consistently insightful . . . In Foer s retelling based on nearly 300 interviews rather than cherry-picked
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news clips Biden s old-school virtues of political patience and flexibility have paid major dividends as he has pulled off a string of legislative victories on Capitol Hill almost worthy of Lyndon Johnson. New Republic
A triumph of reporting. Geoff Bennett, PBS NewsHour
Deeply reported . . . a terrific read. Chuck Todd, Meet the Press
Fantastic . . . The first real insider account of the Biden White House and a fascinating read about Biden himself. Jon Favreau, Pod Save America
A detailed study of the first two years of Joe Biden s presidency. The American Prospect
A really good read, lovely writing and great reporting . . . Highly recommended. Jake Tapper, The Lead with Jake Tapper
Based on interviews with nearly 300 people in the inner circle of the Biden administration, as well as abundant published sources and government records, Atlantic staff writer Foer offers a brisk, detailed history of the president s first two years in office, a crucial period that saw blunders and triumphs, deft maneuvering and lucky breaks . . . Overall, the author creates a respectful portrait of a savvy, dedicated politician. Kirkus Reviews
Drawing on interviews with policymakers and writing in whip-smart, evocative prose, Foer presents a canny insider s account of Washington, full of backroom wrangling and posturing. Publishers Weekly
A triumph of reporting. Geoff Bennett, PBS NewsHour
Deeply reported . . . a terrific read. Chuck Todd, Meet the Press
Fantastic . . . The first real insider account of the Biden White House and a fascinating read about Biden himself. Jon Favreau, Pod Save America
A detailed study of the first two years of Joe Biden s presidency. The American Prospect
A really good read, lovely writing and great reporting . . . Highly recommended. Jake Tapper, The Lead with Jake Tapper
Based on interviews with nearly 300 people in the inner circle of the Biden administration, as well as abundant published sources and government records, Atlantic staff writer Foer offers a brisk, detailed history of the president s first two years in office, a crucial period that saw blunders and triumphs, deft maneuvering and lucky breaks . . . Overall, the author creates a respectful portrait of a savvy, dedicated politician. Kirkus Reviews
Drawing on interviews with policymakers and writing in whip-smart, evocative prose, Foer presents a canny insider s account of Washington, full of backroom wrangling and posturing. Publishers Weekly
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