The Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerPromise Me, Dad is a brisk, often uplifting read, a consequence of its author\'s congenital jollity and irrepressible candor.
Promise Me, Dad is a story of how family and friendships sustain us and how hope, purpose, and action can guide us through the pain o.
This is a book written not just by the vice president, but by a father, grandfather, friend, and husband.
But even in the worst times, Biden was able to lean on the strength of his long, deep bonds with his family, on his faith, and on his deepening friendship with the man in the Oval Office, Barack Obama.
Writing with poignancy and immediacy, Joe Biden allows readers to feel the urgency of each moment, to experience the days when he felt unable to move forward as well as the days when he felt like he could not afford to stop.
The Year brought real triumph and accomplishment, and wrenching pain.
And never far away was the insistent and urgent question of whether he should seek the presidency in 2016.
For twelve months, while Beau fought for and then lost his life, the vice president balanced the twin imperatives of living up to his responsibilities to his country and his responsibilities to his family.
When a call came from New York, or Capitol Hill, or Kyiv, or Baghdad--Joe, I need your help--he responded.
Vice President Biden traveled more than a hundred thousand miles that year, across the world, dealing with crises in Ukraine, Central America, and Iraq.
Promise Me, Dad chronicles the Year that followed, which would be the most momentous and challenging in Joe Biden\'s extraordinary life and career.
Joe Biden gave him his word.
Give me your word that no matter what happens, you\'re going to be all right.
Promise me, Dad, Beau had told his father.
Joe and Jill Biden\'s eldest son, Beau, had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor fifteen months earlier, and his survival was uncertain.
But this Year felt different from all those that had come before.
The Thanksgiving holiday was a much-needed respite, a time to connect, a time to reflect on what the Year had brought, and what the future might hold.
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; it was the one constant in what had become a hectic, scrutinized, and overscheduled life. - Vanity FairA deeply moving memoir about the Year that would forever change both a family and a country.
The Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerPromise Me, Dad is a brisk, often uplifting read, a consequence of its author\'s congenital jollity and irrepressible candor
