The instant New York Times bestseller!Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the
first two years of the Biden presidency with exclusive access to Biden s longtime team of
advisers and presents a gripping portrait of a president during this momentous time in our
nation s history.You might love Biden or you might hate Biden but either way if you want to
understand him you will want to buy this book. Politico A triumph of reporting. Geoff Bennett
PBS NewsHour Deeply reported . . . a terrific read. Chuck Todd Meet the Press Fantastic . . .
The first real insider account of the Biden White House and a fascinating read about Biden
himself. Jon Favreau Pod Save America On January 20 2021 standing where only two weeks
earlier police officers had battled with right-wing paramilitaries Joe Biden took his oath of
office. The American people were still sick with COVID-19 his economists were already warning
him of an imminent financial crisis and his party the Democrats had the barest of majorities
in the Senate. Yet faced with an unprecedented set of crises Joe Biden decided he would not
play defense. Instead he set out to transform the nation. He proposed the most ambitious
domestic spending bills since the 1960s and vowed to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan
ending the nation s longest war and reorienting it toward a looming competition with China.
With unparalleled access to the tight inner circle of advisers who have surrounded Biden for
decades Franklin Foer dramatizes in forensic detail the first two years of the Biden
presidency concluding with the historic midterm elections. The result is a gripping and
high-definition portrait of a major president at a time when democracy itself seems imperiled.
With his back to the wall Biden resorted to old-fashioned politics: deal-making and
compromise. It was a gamble that seemed at first disastrously anachronistic as he struggled to
rally even the support of his own party. Yet as the midterms drew near via a series of bills
with banal names Biden somehow found a way to invest trillions of dollars in clean energy the
domestic semiconductor industry and new infrastructure. Had he done the impossible breaking
decisively with the old Washington consensus to achieve progressive goals? The Last Politician
is a landmark work of political reporting which includes thrilling blow-by-blow insider
reports of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the White House s swift response to the
Russian invasion of Ukraine that is destined to shape history s view of a president in the eye
of the storm.
