UPDATED AND WITH NEW PHOTOS Newly updated the definitive biography of the President-elect of
the United States Joe Biden which examines the fascinating life of a man who has shaped
Washington politics for more than four decades and will now enter the White House as President
in his own right. Raised in the working-class towns of Scranton Pennsylvania and Wilmington
Delaware and with lackluster grades in school and no particular goals Joe Biden shocked the
nation in 1972 when he became one of the youngest elected senators in U.S. history. Over the
course of four decades he carved a legacy for himself as one of the most respected legislators
in the country and was a close friend and partner to President Barack Obama who valued his
vice president's vast experience in domestic and foreign affairs. Yet Biden's political success
has been matched by personal tragedy and countless challenges. Within two months of being
elected in 1972 Biden lost his wife Neilia and his young daughter in a tragic accident?a
loss that brought him to the nadir of despair and shook his resolve to stay in politics. He
suffered two brain aneurysms and career-threatening gaffes and miscues. In 2015 he lost his
eldest son Beau to brain cancer. Biden then faced the biggest challenge of his political
career as the Democratic nominee for the 2020 elections and won both the electoral college and
popular vote. He is now poised to enter the White House once more?this time as President?at a
time of great global uncertainty. Based on exhaustive research by one of Washington's most
prolific journalists including numerous exclusive interviews with Biden's confidants and
family members as well as President Obama and the President-elect himself Joe Biden goes
beyond conventional biography to track the forces that have shaped the man who will be the next
President of the United States.
