Former vice president 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.

The main reason why I deiced to read this book was that I wanted to learn more about Joe Biden without reading a 500 + pages long book on him. I was never a fan of Joe Biden and I wanted to learn more about him to change my opinion about him. 

This book tries to paint Joe Biden was a good guy but it gives us the opposite effect. Since it talks about people who he had disagreements with and all the questionable things he said about people he didn’t like. Its easy to say that this book didn’t help me to change my opinion about him but rather made me agree more with my opinion about him. 

This book is under 200 pages long, but reading this book felt like infinity and like this book would never end. 

The majority about this book is about how bad of a president candidate Donald Trump is and how much better president would be Joe Biden. Which isn’t a Joe Biden biography but rather a woke commentary about why you shouldn’t vote for republicans. 

This book doesn’t have any chronological order of events in Joe Biden life because it keeps jumping back and forward in time without any correlation. It starts with talking about Joe Biden senator, then it goes to talking about Joe Biden being the vice president, then it goes back in time to talk about how Joe Biden became a candidate for vice president under Barack Obama’s presidency, then it goes to talk about Joe and Jill living together, then it goes to back to talk about Joe’s first wife dying etc. 

This book is all over the place and doesn’t have any timeline it follows. So if you are looking for an actually biography about Joe Biden then this book isn’t the choice for that.

The wiring style felt like it belongs more to a blog rather than to a biography book which this book is put under on Goodreads. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5