Joe Biden

"Joe Biden is both the unhappiest and the happiest person I know." This is what a companion says about the designated 46th President of the United States. The award-winning journalist Evan Osnos has been following the politician from Delaware for years and has interviewed him repeatedly, most recently in the summer of 2020. These and other conversations with family members and companions, such as Barack Obama, form the basis of this brilliant portrait of Biden, born in 1942, in whose career the changes in the political culture of the USA are reflected. At just 29 years old, the son of a car dealer was elected to the US Senate. He took his oath of office after losing his first wife and daughter in a car accident just a few weeks earlier. After ups and downs, his career eventually led him to the White House as Vice President. Joe Biden has experienced dramatic tragedies and surprising turns of fate. Perhaps it is precisely this that enables him to unite a divided nation, heal the wounds of the Trump era, and facilitate a new political awakening.