Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

<b><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • Joe Biden, the author of <b><b><i>Promise Me, Dad,</i></b> tells <b>the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama’s beloved, influential vice president.</b></b></b><br></b>  <br> In <i>Promises to Keep,</i> Joe Biden reveals the experiences that shaped him with his customary candor and charm. He movingly recounts growing up in a staunchly Catholic multigenerational household in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware; overcoming personal tragedy, life-threatening illness, and career setbacks; his relations, as a United States senator for more than thirty-five years, with fellow lawmakers on both sides of the aisle; and his leadership of powerful Senate committees.<br>  <br> Through these and other recollections, Biden shows us how the guiding principles he learned early in life—to work to make people’s lives better; to honor family and faith; to value persistence, candor, and honesty—are the foundation on which he has based his life’s work as husband, father, and legislator.<br>  <br> <i>Promises to Keep </i>is the story of a man who surmounted numerous challenges to become one of our most effective leaders. It is also an intimate series of reflections from a public servant who witnessed and participated in a momentous epoch of American history and refuses to be cynical about political leadership—a stirring testament to the promise of the United States.