With Surprise Reversal, Biden Rewrites His Legacy and Makes a Play for History
In his first memoir, President Biden reflected on what at the time was the most searing moment of his political career. He had withdrawn from his first presidential campaign in disgrace, driven out by charges of plagiarism. But he resolved not to let it be the end of his story. “A person’s epitaph,” he observed, “was written when his or her last battle was fought.”