Joe Biden. The life, the run, and what matters now. Evan Osnos.2020. ISBN 9781982174026.\u00a0 Published just prior to the inauguration this is a decent reveal about who and what Joe is.\u00a0 It seems he may be what the US needs right now to “get the job done” while being quietly competent at working the Washington levers of power.\u00a0 ( I think we appreciate the quiet part now)\u00a0 \u00a0 I was interested in the projected actions he may take in his first forty weeks of power, he is under no illusions as to how short a honeymoon he may have.\u00a0 His actions seem to follow these projections and why they seem necessary. It’s a useful book for those of us who watch the US from a distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Published just prior to the inauguration this is a decent reveal about who and what Joe is.\u00a0 It seems he may be what the US needs right now to “get the job done” while being quietly competent at working the Washington levers of power.\u00a0 ( I think we appreciate the quiet part now)\u00a0 \u00a0 I was interested in the projected actions he may take in his first forty weeks of power, he is under no illusions as to how short a honeymoon he may have.\u00a0 His actions seem to follow these projections and why they seem necessary. It’s a useful book for those of us who watch the US from a distance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,12],"tags":[3275,3276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9859,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions\/9859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}