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| Author | Joe Biden |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | Random House |
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| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 400 |
| ISBN | 978-1-4000-6536-3 |
| OCLC | 1132901206 |
| Followed by | Promise Me, Dad |
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Personal U.S. Senator from Delaware 47th Vice President of the United States Vice presidential campaigns 46th President of the United States Tenure   | ||
Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics is a memoir by then-Senator from DelawareJoe Biden. It was ghost written byMark Zwonitzer. The book was first published byRandom House on July 31, 2007. A paperback version was later published in August 2008. It was released in the run-up to Biden's2008 presidential campaign.
Biden begins by recounting his life growing up in aRoman Catholic family inScranton, Pennsylvania and laterWilmington, Delaware. He details the 1972 car accident that killed his wifeNeilia and their one-year-old daughter Naomi, and the struggles he faced in its aftermath. He then writes about the second chance he was given upon meetingJill Jacobs in 1975, as he began his career representing Delaware in the United States Senate.[1] The book also explores his beleaguered1988 presidential campaign, during which hesuffered from two brain aneurysms, and the physical and political recovery he later made.[2]
Parts of the text describing Biden's early childhood are drawnverbatim from the 1992 bookWhat It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer.[3]
Promises to Keep was ghost written byMark Zwonitzer.[4] While being interviewed onThe Early Show, Biden explained that the title of the book was inspired by the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" byRobert Frost. He also considered titling the book "Get Up."[2]
Promises to Keep was first published byRandom House on July 31, 2007.[5] A paperback version was published on August 28, 2008.[6] It was released in the run-up to Biden's2008 presidential campaign.[7]
The Christian Science Monitor praised the book writing, "Biden is a master storyteller and has stories worth telling." Likewise,The New York Times called it "a compelling personal story", whileSalon.com commended Biden's response to tragedy as "both admirable and likable".[8]
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