Most Popular Books by Evan Osnos

Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction An Economist Best Book of 2014 Winner of the bronze medal for the Council on Foreign Relations'' 2015 Arthur Ross Book Award 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 and on the edge of stagnation. What we don''t see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes. As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In Age of Ambition, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party''s struggle to retain control. He asks probing questions: Why does a government with more success lifting people from poverty than any civilization in history choose to put strict restraints on freedom of expression? Why do millions of young Chinese professionals-fluent in English and devoted to Western pop culture-consider themselves "angry youth," dedicated to resisting the West''s influence? How are Chinese from all strata finding meaning after two decades of the relentless pursuit of wealth? Writing with great narrative verve and a keen sense of irony, Osnos follows the moving stories of everyday people and reveals life in the new China to be a battleground between aspiration and authoritarianism, in which only one can prevail.

The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos - A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the Year''A thoroughly readable primer'' Guardian''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 upon his shoulders'' Sunday TimesPresident 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 House, but also marked by deep personal losses that he has suffered. Yet even as Biden''s life has been shaped by drama, it has also been powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to confront his shortcomings, errors and reversals of fortune. His trials have forged in him a deep empathy for others in hardship - an essential quality as he addresses a nation at its most dire hour in decades.Blending up-close journalism and broader context, Evan Osnos illuminates Biden''s life and captures the characters and meaning of an extraordinary presidential election. He draws on lengthy interviews with Biden and on revealing conversations with more than a hundred others, including President Barack Obama, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, and a range of progressive activists, advisers, opponents, and Biden family members. In this nuanced portrait, Biden emerges as flawed, yet resolute, and tempered by the flame of tragedy - a man who just may be uncannily suited for his moment in history.

*** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** Chosen as a book of the year by the New Yorker, Financial Times, The Times and Sunday Times. ‘A field guide to the super-rich . . . a hoot to chronicle – and even more fun to read’ Sunday Times The one percent now hold more of America’s wealth than they did in the heyday of the Carnegies and Rockefellers, and their habits cast a longer shadow than ever before. With deft storytelling and meticulous reporting, Evan Osnos exposes the hidden world of the ultrarich in all its outrageous, fabulous, ridiculous detail: superyachts, luxury bunkers, private gigs, wealth managers, elite tax dodges and a torrent of political donations. Osnos’s essays are an entertaining, unsettling and eye-opening wake-up call – a case against complacency in the face of unchecked excess and staggering disparities of wealth and power. As the choices of the ultrarich ripple through our lives, The Haves and Have-Yachts couldn’t be more relevant to today’s world. ‘A prestige romp’ New York Times ‘Superb’ Literary Review ‘Charming’ Washington Post ‘Important’ Irish Times ‘Entertaining and unsettling’ Financial Times

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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 after a decade away from the United States, first reporting from the Middle East before becoming the Beijing bureau chief at the Chicago Tribune and then the China correspondent for The New Yorker. 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 foundational moral commitments: the rule of law, the power of truth, the right of equal opportunity for all. But when he returned to the United States, he found each of these principles under assault. In search of an explanation for the crisis that reached an unsettling crescendo in 2020—a year of pandemic, civil unrest, and political turmoil—he focused on three places he knew firsthand: Greenwich, Connecticut; Clarksburg, West Virginia; and Chicago, Illinois. Reported over the course of six years, Wildland follows ordinary individuals as they navigate the varied landscapes of twenty-first-century America. Through their powerful, often poignant stories, Osnos traces the sources of America’s political dissolution. He finds answers in the rightward shift of the financial elite in Greenwich, in the collapse of social infrastructure and possibility in Clarksburg, and in the compounded effects of segregation and violence in Chicago. The truth about the state of the nation may be found not in the slogans of political leaders but in the intricate details of individual lives, and in the hidden connections between them. As Wildland weaves in and out of these personal stories, events in Washington occasionally intrude, like flames licking up on the horizon. A dramatic, prescient examination of seismic changes in American politics and culture, Wildland is the story of a crucible, a period bounded by two shocks to America’s psyche, two assaults on the country’s sense of itself: the attacks of September 11 in 2001 and the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Following the lives of everyday Americans in three cities and across two decades, Osnos illuminates the country in a startling light, revealing how we lost the moral confidence to see ourselves as larger than the sum of our parts.

« L''un des meilleurs livres sur les complexités de la Chine moderne. » The Guardian « Le portrait captivant et troublant d''un pays gagné par une crise morale et une frustration explosive. » The New York Times « Le splendide portrait de la Chine du XXIe siècle. » The Wall Street Journal Vue de loin, la Chine nous apparaît sous des traits déformés : une nation de ploutocrates pragmatiques et d''étudiants implacables dont le seul rêve est de contrôler l''économie globale. Ou un géant un peu confus, rongé par la corruption et au bord de la stagnation. Nous ne voyons pas l''extraordinaire façon dont les Chinois, puissants ou modestes, réinventent leurs vies dans un pays en pleine mutation. Durant les nombreuses années qu''il a passées en Chine, Evan Osnos, lauréat du prix Pulitzer, a été le témoin des profonds changements politiques, économiques et culturels qui s''y sont déroulés. Couronné par le National Book Award 2014, il décrit dans ce récit fascinant la collision entre la montée de l''individualisme et la lutte du Parti communiste pour reprendre le contrôle. Pourquoi ce pays qui a permis à son peuple d''accéder à la richesse s''acharne-t-il à lui refuser la liberté d''expression ? Pourquoi des millions de jeunes Chinois séduits par la culture occidentale résistent-ils à ce point à son influence ? Autant de questions auxquelles répond ce portrait saisissant de la Chine d''aujourd''hui et de demain.

»Osnos erzählt die bewegende Geschichte düsterer Zeiten mit einer Menschlichkeit, die Hoffnung auf etwas Besseres verspricht.« Michael J. Sandel Nach zehn Jahren als Korrespondent im Nahen Osten und in China zieht Evan Osnos 2013 zurück in die USA. Doch das Land, in das er heimkehrt, ist kaum wiederzuerkennen. Chancengleichheit, Rechtsstaatlichkeit, der Glaube an die Macht der Wahrheit – die fundamentalen Prinzipien der ältesten Demokratie der Welt scheinen ihre Selbstverständlichkeit eingebüßt zu haben. 2016 wird Donald Trump zum Präsidenten gewählt, vier Jahre später stürmen seine Unterstützer das Kapitol. Aus den vereinigten sind die gespaltenen Staaten von Amerika geworden. Evan Osnos hat diese Entwicklungen über Jahre beobachtet. Er versucht zu verstehen und zu erklären: warum im reichen Greenwich an der Ostküste, wo er aufgewachsen ist, aus gemäßigten Konservativen eingefleischte Trump-Anhänger wurden. Wie sich in Clarksburg, West Virginia, wo er seinen ersten Job bei einer Zeitung annahm, die Opioid-Krise zur nationalen Katastrophe ausweiten konnte. Und was die Ursachen sind für den Rassismus, die Waffengewalt und die Ungleichheit in Chicago, wo er selbst zu einem gefragten Journalisten aufstieg. Aus eindringlichen Porträts entsteht eine große Erzählung, die vom 11. September 2001 bis zum 6. Januar 2021 reicht. Der Pulitzer-Preisträger zeichnet nach, wie die USA den moralischen Kompass verloren, der einst aus einer Vereinigung von Staaten die Vereinigten Staaten machte.

Acht Jahre lang lebt und arbeitet Evan Osnos in China – in dieser Zeit wird er Zeuge einer unglaublichen Transformation: Das Land verändert sich in einem Tempo und Ausmaß, das selbst das der industriellen Revolution übertrifft. (Tatsächlich berührt der Wandel alle Gesellschaftsbereiche und jeden Einzelnen.) Osnos spürt diesen Umwälzungen nach und zeichnet ein eindrückliches Bild des Kampfes um Glück, Erfolg und Wahrheit, der China und seine Einwohner im 21. Jahrhundert prägt. Sein einzigartiges Porträt Chinas versammelt die Geschichten der Männer und Frauen, die alles dafür geben, ihr eigenes Leben oder gleich das ganze Land zu verändern – Osnos spricht mit Glücksrittern auf der Jagd nach Reichtum, begleitet den Künstler Ai Weiwei und den Friedensnobelpreisträger Liu Xiaobo, trifft lyrikverliebte Straßenkehrer und Internetmillionäre. Die Erwartungen, Hoffnungen und Enttäuschungen der Menschen werden durch seine fundierten Schilderungen greifbar und erlauben ein tieferes Verständnis der heutigen chinesischen Gesellschaft.

Contemplado desde fuera, el paisaje chino adquiere a veces rasgos grotescos: una tierra de millonarios sin escrúpulos y burócratas implacables destinados a gobernar la economía global o un Goliat lastimoso infestado de corrupción y al borde del colapso. No parece haber una perspectiva equilibrada. Lo que apenas vemos es cómo la gente (ricos y pobres, señores y súbditos) se amolda o se reinventa mientras la sociedad cambia a un ritmo vertiginoso. Como corresponsal en Pekín del Chicago Tribune y luego del New Yorker, Evan Osnos ha estudiado sobre el terreno las profundas transformaciones sociales que han sacudido China durante los últimos decenios. En este libro describe el principal conflicto que hoy vive aquel país: la colisión entre las necesidades individuales activadas por el crecimiento económico y un Partido Comunista decidido a mantener su hegemonía. Osnos pone el dedo en la llaga de las paradojas. ¿Por qué el régimen que más personas ha sacado de la pobreza en la historia restringe tan vigorosamente la libertad de expresión? ¿Por qué tantos jóvenes devotos de la cultura pop occidental se oponen a la influencia cultural de Occidente? ¿Por qué la palabra "lujo" está vedada en las vallas publicitarias mientras Ferrari y Rolls Royce hacen su agosto? ¿Por qué el dinero y la prosperidad dan pie a una búsqueda de trascendencia espiritual? Con firme pulso narrativo y grandes dosis de ironía, Osnos responde a esas y otras preguntas contando las historias de los humildes, los poderosos y los estrambóticos (que no son pocos), buscando las claves o desvelando los secretos. Este libro es un gran escenario donde se representan las comedias y los dramas, los esplendores, las farsas y las desdichas de la nueva China.

Traditional Chinese Edition of [Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now]

«Este libro logra dimensionar con destreza al hombre y al político, para presentar un retrato inaudito del candidato demócrata». The Washington Post El reconocido periodista Evan Osnos, ganador de los premios Pulitzer y National Book Award, combina su minuciosa investigación con el tono íntimo de las entrevistas que sostuvo con Joe Biden en varias ocasiones. Osnos logra revelar los matices del personaje a través de más de un centenar de conversaciones con figuras como Barack Obama y miembros de la familia Biden, activistas y oponentes ideológicos. Esta biografía ilumina la vida personal del hombre que perdió a su familia en un accidente automovilístico, a la vez que muestra una admirable trayectoria política: su carrera en el Senado, sus ocho años como vicepresidente de Estados Unidos en el gobierno de Obama y su decisión de postularse a la presidencia por el Partido Demócrata. El retrato más completo y brillante del hombre con el poder de frenar a Trump. «El fracaso en algún punto de la vida es inevitable, pero darse por vencido es imperdonable». Joe Biden

Traditional Chinese edition of Wildland: The Making of America''s Fury

«Gli effetti dei grandi patrimoni sono occultati da un manto di segretezza ed espressioni in codice. Solo occasionalmente - quando qualcosa crolla (qualche mito, qualche fiducia riposta, qualche velo di correttezza) - il vero potere viene alla luce.» Evan Osnos, giornalista per il «New Yorker», ha avuto accesso a questa dimensione parallela in cui vive l''élite delle élite mondiali, e in queste pagine ce ne offre un ritratto che intrattiene, incuriosisce, inquieta e indigna. Al centro c''è l''impatto del denaro e di chi lo possiede su di sé, sul prossimo e sulla società globale. Muovendosi nelle enclaves dei super-ricchi, tra Monte Carlo, Palm Beach, Palo Alto e Hollywood, Osnos rivela un mondo popolato di superyacht, feste esclusive, bunker di lusso a prova di catastrofe, conti bancari al continuo ingrasso, escamotage fiscali e ingenti donazioni politiche: così vive una classe privilegiata che non solo ha perso il contatto con la realtà, ma ha anche gettato a mare qualsiasi sistema di valori. Attraverso le storie di magnati caduti in disgrazia, truffatori hollywoodiani autori del più grande schema Ponzi e visionari della tecnologia - da Mark Zuckerberg in poi -, Osnos racconta l''ambizione sfrenata, le fortune inimmaginabili, l''ossessione per lo status, per la ricchezza fine a se stessa, alla ricerca di una soddisfazione che non sarà mai piena. E poi il lato più oscuro: la plutocrazia che si infiltra nelle fondamenta della democrazia e nei rapporti umani, la crescente influenza esercitata dalla Silicon Valley e da Wall Street e le reazioni esplosive che tale potere suscita. Coinvolgente e meticoloso, Il prezzo del potere è un libro più attuale che mai, una riflessione sulle distorsioni di potere e ricchezza che plasmano la nostra società e un invito a non restare indifferenti di fronte alla cultura dell''eccesso.