Ben Schreckinger
Autor(a) de The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power
Obras por Ben Schreckinger
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- Obras
- 2
- Membros
- 28
- Popularidade
- #471,397
- Avaliação
- 3.1
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 6
The Biden family grew up in variable economic conditions (the family was apparently either pretty flush or close to broke most of the time), and the parents encouraged their kids to be assertive and to have high ambitions. The author devotes two very interesting chapters to the social and political culture of the state of Delaware (small, insular, long dominated by a few wealthy families, and now dominated by the financial industry). The "Delaware Way" appears to explain a lot about the business dealings of various members of the Biden family, since the whole system depends on personal networks and doing favors for friends. Outsiders might call it corruption.
I didn't come away with any sense of who Joe Biden is as an individual. He is very, very close to his family. He is extremely protective of his surviving son, Hunter, who has a long history of self-destructive behavior. He seems to be adept at keeping his skirts clean of any implications of shady-dealing, although his repeated insistence that he doesn't know anything about his family's business deals wears a little thin by the end of the book.
An interesting read, but it leaves a lot of unanswered questions.… (mais)