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Promise me, dad tampa bay library consortium overdrive. In fact, i believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling. Promise me, dad a year of hope, hardship, and purpose a deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country. This is a book written not just by the vice president but by a father, grandfather, friend, and husband. Give me your word, dad, that youre going to be all right. Promise me, dad is joe bidens poignant account of the most challenging year of his vicepresidency and the secondmost difficult year of his life. In november 2014, thirteen members of the biden family gathered on nantucket for thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years.
Joe biden book promise me, dad keeps the door open. Jul 10, 2019 his memoir, promise me, dad, came out in november 2017 and has sold over 300,000 copies. Joe bidens toughest year of his life recorded in a fantastic memoir. Beau was insisting that joe accept his likely death and promise to move on, as they had done together with the deaths of joes wife and daughter beaus mother and sister when beau was a child.
The book is subtitled a year of hope, hardship, and purpose, and is written in first person narration that entwines the authors experiences dealing with a trio of particular political issues with a pair of particular personal issues. Promise me, dad, written and read by joe biden home base by. Bidens death, his brother hunter, sister ashley, widow hallie, and v. In promise me, dad, joe biden writes that the family of. New york times bestseller presidentelect joe biden, the author of promise me, dad, tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as barack obamas beloved, influential vice president. A year of hope, hardship, and promise community note includes chapterbychapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
About the author joe biden represented delaware for 36 years in the u. A year of hope, hardship, and purpose is a deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever. Joe and jill bidens eldest son, beau, had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor 15 months earlier, and his survival was uncertain. Dec 22, 2017 joe biden, promise me, dad the biden family has a long history of preventing abuse of power and have been strident in preventing violence against women and children. Nov 12, 2017 promise me, dad is also about the son of a nation in chaos explaining why we are here and how we move past our feelings of loss and despair toward a purposedriven life. Promise me, dad chronicles the year that followed, which would be the most momentous and challenging in joe bidens extraordinary life and career. Its a story of how he lost his son beau to brain cancer, and how he fought through it to still be an indispensable part of barack obamas administration. Promise me, dad marylands digital library overdrive.
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