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Age of Ambition["Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China"] by Evan Osnos
Category: History
Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction. An Economist Best Book of 2014. A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragma ...Show more
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
Category: Politics
"A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy--or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption an ...Show more
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
Category: History
A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the 'Wastepaper Queen'. Age of Ambition describes some of the billion individual lives that ...Show more
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
Category: History
This book is the winner of the National Book Award 2014. A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the 'Wastepaper Queen'. Age of Ambi ...Show more
Joe Biden: American Dreamer by Evan Osnos
Category: Politics
A concise, brilliant and trenchant examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency 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 Hou ...Show more
Joe Biden - American Dreamer by Evan Osnos
Category: Politics
A concise, brilliant and incisive examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency This definitive history of Joe Biden tells the poignant story of the man – both his life in politics and the series of personal tragedies that have marked him – drawing on extensive co ...Show more
Joe Biden - American Dreamer by Evan Osnos
Category: Politics
A concise, brilliant and trenchant examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency 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 H ...Show more
Joe Biden: American Dreamer by Evan Osnos
Category: Biography Memoir
'There's just something about Joe, as this short biography from New Yorker writer Evan Osnos illustrates . . . Biden has overcome unimaginable tribulation, multiple presidential primary humiliations, a potentially crippling speech impediment and his own mediocrity. Now he carries the hopes of billions u ...Show more
Joe Biden - The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now by Evan Osnos
Category: Biography
A concise, brilliant, and trenchant examination of Democratic Nominee Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s lifelong quest for the presidency by National Book Award winner Evan Osnos, adapted from nearly a decade of his reporting for The New Yorker. Former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luc ...Show more
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
Category: History
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States--Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury. Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 aft ...Show more
Wildland - The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
Category: General History
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A reportorial tour de force ... Heart-rending, appalling and hard to put down' JANE MAYER'Richly reported, beautifully written ... A riveting tale of dark times, told with a pathos and humanity that prompts hope of something better' MICHAEL J. SANDEL'Visionary in scope, com ...Show more
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
Category: History
Evan Osnos moved to Washington, DC, in 2013 after a decade away from the United States. While abroad, he often found himself making a case for America, urging the citizens of Egypt, Iraq or China to trust that even though America had made grave mistakes throughout its history, it aspired to some foundat ...Show more
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