Current Reading: Joe Biden by Evan Osnos

 

I just finished Evan Osnos' book Joe Biden: The life, the run, and what matters now. I especially like the end:

[This] put me in mind of Franklin Roosevelt's famous line: "The presidency is not merely an administrative office.... It is preeminently a place of moral leadership." Joe Biden's life was replete with mistakes and regrets and staggering personal loss. And, if he came to the presidency, he was unlikely to supply much of the exalted rhetoric that reaches into a nation's soul. But, for a people in mourning, he might offer something like solace, a language of healing.