美国国家图书奖获得者、《纽约客》撰稿人埃文·奥斯诺斯为当选总统拜登撰写的新传记——《金融时报》、《卫报》和《每日快报》年度**图书

当选总统小约瑟夫·拜登（Joseph R. Biden Jr.）既被称为最幸运的人，也被称为最不幸的人——幸运的是他维持了五十年的政治生涯，并入主白宫，但同时他个人也遭受了沉重的损失。

然而，尽管拜登的一生充满了戏剧性，但他也有一种在政界高层中罕见的意愿，即愿意面对自己的缺点、错误和命运的逆转。他的磨难使他对其他处于困境中的人产生了深切的同情--这是他在几十年来对一个处于最危急时刻的国家发表讲话的基本素质。

埃文·奥斯诺斯将近距离的新闻报道和更广泛的背景融合在一起，阐明了拜登的一生，并描绘了一场不同寻常的总统选举的特点和意义。他通过对拜登的长时间采访，以及与其他一百多人的谈话，包括前总统奥巴马、科里·布克、艾米·科洛布查、皮特·布蒂吉格，以及一系列进步活动家、顾问、反对者和拜登家人的谈话，揭示了拜登的一生。

在这幅细致入微的画像中，拜登的形象是有缺陷的，但又是坚定的，因为悲剧的火焰变得温和——这个人可能恰好适合他的历史时刻。

The new biography of President-

elect Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos - A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the Year

President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest - fortunate to have sustained a fifty-

year political career that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses that he has suffered.

Yet even as Biden's life has been shaped by drama, it has also been powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to confront his shortcomings, errors and reversals of fortune. His trials have forged in him a deep empathy for others in hardship - an essential quality as he addresses a nation at its most dire hour in decades.

Blending up-

close journalism and broader context, Evan Osnos illuminates Biden's life and captures the characters and meaning of an extraordinary presidential election. He draws on lengthy interviews with Biden and on revealing conversations with more than a hundred others, including President Barack Obama, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, and a range of progressive activists, advisers, opponents, and Biden family members.

In this nuanced portrait, Biden emerges as flawed, yet resolute, and tempered by the flame of tragedy - a man who just may be uncannily suited for his moment in history.