Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden: The Heartbreaking Story of His Most Difficult Year - Non Fiction - Paperback

Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781509890088. Publisher: Pan (Pan Macmillan). Pages: 304OverviewPromise Me, Dad is Joe Biden's deeply personal memoir of 2015, the year his son Beau died of brain cancer while Biden served as Vice President and wrestled with whether to run for the presidency. Told with candour and warmth, it is a story of grief, duty, and family loyalty set against the backdrop of American politics, and it remains one of the most talked-about political memoirs of the last decade.About the BookIn November 2014, the extended Biden family gathered for their traditional Thanksgiving, unaware quite how difficult the year ahead would prove. Beau Biden, Joe's eldest son and a rising political star in his own right, had been diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour fifteen months earlier. As Beau fought for his life, Vice President Biden continued to carry the full weight of his office, travelling more than a hundred thousand miles across the globe to confront crises in Ukraine, Central America and Iraq. Behind the scenes, he balanced these enormous public responsibilities with the private agony of watching his son decline, all while an insistent question loomed: should he seek the presidency in 2016? Promise Me, Dad moves between these threads with remarkable honesty, revealing how Biden leaned on his faith, his tight-knit family, and his close friendship with President Obama to endure the hardest year of his life. It is at once an intimate account of...