{"id":149050,"date":"2022-09-24T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-long-alliance-review-sure-guide-to-biden-and-obama-s-imperfect-union"},"modified":"2022-09-24T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:00:09","slug":"the-long-alliance-review-sure-guide-to-biden-and-obama-s-imperfect-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-long-alliance-review-sure-guide-to-biden-and-obama-s-imperfect-union","title":{"rendered":"The Long Alliance review: sure guide to Biden and Obama&#8217;s imperfect union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden listens as Barack Obama speaks, in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting, in December 2012.Gabriel Debenedetti is the national correspondent for New York magazine. His first book brings depth and context to the near-two-decade relationship between the 44th and 46th presidents. Under a telling subtitle, The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama, Debenedetti captures the two men&#8217;s closeness &#8211; and distance.The Long Alliance emphasizes that the pair&#8217;s time in power together was not a buddy movie. Obama was the star. Biden played a supporting role until he too seized the brass ring, to send Donald Trump into exile.Obama was a first-term senator, just 47 years old, when he vanquished the Clintons, bulldozed John McCain and entered the White House. Biden&#8217;s trajectory was markedly different. Late in life, on his third quest for the presidency, he took down another septuagenarian amid a deadly pandemic.The union of Obama and Biden was always moored in intergenerational convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Debenedetti is the national correspondent for New York magazine. His first book brings depth and context to the near-two-decade relationship between the 44th and 46th presidents. Under a telling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1],"tags":[90,19,42],"class_list":["post-149050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature","category-news","tag-books-literature","tag-entertainment","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}