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Evan Osnos's Probing Portrait Of The President-Elect

Simon and Schuster Publishers

 (Originally broadcast November 12, 2020) 

On this archive edition of Midday, Tom talks with Evan Osnos, a staff writer for The New Yorker, about his latest book, Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now.

Tom spoke with Mr. Osnos about a week and a half after the election, on the day that several media sources had added Arizona to the win column for President-elect Joe Biden.  Later that day, the state of Georgia was also called for Mr. Biden, as a hand count in that state got underway.  By the following day, most media outlets had declared Mr. Biden the president-elect.

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Evan Osnos is a staff writer at The New Yorker.

In his nearly fifty-year career in public service, Joe Biden has played influential leadership roles in the US Senate and served eight years as vice-president in Barack Obama's White House.  Along the way, he has also endured deep personal losses and high-profile political missteps and disappointments, events that have given Mr. Biden a humility and an empathy for others in hardship uncommon in career politicians.

On this archive edition of Midday, veteran journalist Evan Osnos -- a winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and a fellow at The Brookings Institution -- joins Tom for the hour to talk about what kind of president Joe Biden will be. 

He joined us on Zoom.

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