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Promise Me, Dad: The Heartbreaking Story of Joe Biden's Most Difficult Year (English Edition) Kindle Ausgabe
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller.
From President-Elect Joe Biden, winner of the 2020 United States presidential election, Promise Me Dad is his deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country.
'Biden splices a heartbreaking story with an election story and a foreign affairs story. And in so doing, he offers something for everyone, no matter which strand draws you in' – The New York Times Book Review
In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered for their traditional Thanksgiving celebration. But this year felt different from previous. Joe and Jill Biden's eldest son, Beau, had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour fifteen months earlier, and his survival was uncertain. 'Promise me, Dad,' Beau had told his father. 'Give me your word that no matter what happens, you’re going to be all right.' Joe Biden gave him his word.
Promise Me, Dad chronicles the year that followed, which would be the most momentous and challenging in Joe Biden’s extraordinary life and career. Vice President Biden travelled more than a hundred thousand miles that year, across the world, dealing with crises in Ukraine, Central America and Iraq. 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, while contemplating the insistent and urgent question of whether he should seek the presidency in 2016. 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.
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 of personal loss into the light of a new future.
- SpracheEnglisch
- HerausgeberMacmillan
- Erscheinungstermin16. November 2017
- LesealterAb 18 Jahren
- Dateigröße3331 KB
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"The book is a backstage drama, honest, raw and rich in detail. People who have lost someone will genuinely take comfort from what he has to say...These flashes of vulnerability are part of what makes Promise Me, Dad memorable; so, too, are the small, tender interactions between Biden and his dying son."
-- The New York Times
"Biden splices a heartbreaking story with an election story and a foreign affairs story. And in so doing, he offers something for everyone, no matter which strand draws you in."
-- The New York Times Book Review
"Biden exudes humanity throughout the book. He lays bare his emotions and vulnerabilities at losing a son with so much promise."
- NPR
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A deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country
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. The Thanksgiving holiday was a time to connect, a time to reflect on what the year had brought, and what the future might hold. But this year felt different from all those that had come before. Joe and Jill Biden’s eldest son, Beau, had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour fifteen months earlier, and his survival was uncertain. ‘Promise me, Dad,’ Beau had told his father. ‘Give me your word that no matter what happens, you’re going to be all right.’ Joe Biden gave him his word.
Promise Me, Dad chronicles the year that followed, which would be the most momentous and challenging in Joe Biden’s extraordinary life and career. Vice President Biden travelled more than a hundred thousand miles that year, across the world, dealing with crises in Ukraine, Central America, and Iraq. When a call came from New York, or Capitol Hill, or Kyiv, or Baghdad - ‘Joe, I need your help’ - he responded. 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. And never far away was the insistent and urgent question of whether he should seek the presidency in 2016.
The year brought real triumph and accomplishment, and wrenching pain. 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.
This is a book written not just by the vice president, but by a father, grandfather, friend, and husband. 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 of personal loss into the light of a new future.
Über die Autorenschaft und weitere Mitwirkende
Leseprobe. Abdruck erfolgt mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Rechteinhaber. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
Promise Me, Dad
A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
By Joe BidenFlatiron Books
Copyright © 2017 CelticCapri Corp.All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-250-17167-2
Contents
TITLE PAGE,COPYRIGHT NOTICE,
DEDICATION,
EPIGRAPH,
ONE: Biden Family Thanksgiving,
TWO: Have a Purpose,
THREE: Solace,
FOUR: Trust,
FIVE: Keeping Busy,
SIX: It Has to Be You,
SEVEN: Calculated Risks,
EIGHT: Home Base,
NINE: You Have to Tell Them the Truth,
TEN: Can You Stay?,
ELEVEN: Run, Joe, Run,
EPILOGUE,
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS,
ALSO BY JOE BIDEN,
ABOUT THE AUTHOR,
COPYRIGHT,
CHAPTER 1
Biden Family Thanksgiving
The days were getting shorter, so the light in the sky had started to fall away when the gate to our temporary home swung open and our motorcade edged beyond the fencing that surrounded the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. We were riding from our official residence at the observatory to Andrews Air Force Base, where my children and grandchildren were already gathering. Jill and I were anxious to be with them for our annual Thanksgiving trip. Family had been an essential escape in the five-and-a-half years I had been vice president; being with them was like flying in the eye of a storm — a reminder of the natural ease and rhythms of our previous life, and of the calm to come when my time in office was done. The job had been an incredible adventure, but there were so many things Jill and I missed from life before the vice presidency. We missed our home in Wilmington. We missed the chance to be alone in a car on a long drive where we could talk with abandon. We missed having command over our own schedule and our own movements. Vacations, holidays, and celebrations with family had become the respites that restored some sense of equilibrium. And the rest of our family seemed to need these breaks as much as Jill and I did.
We had all been together just a few months earlier for our annual summer trip to one of the national parks. But five days of hiking, whitewater rafting, and long, loud dinners in the Tetons had apparently not been enough for the grown-ups. Jill and I were in our cabin packing for departure the last day when there was a knock on the door. It was our son Hunter. He knew Jill and I were going alone to the beach for a four-day retreat. But he wondered if maybe, because he and his wife had some free time, they might tag along. We said, Of course! Within a few minutes our other son, Beau, knocked. His in-laws had agreed to watch the children. Maybe we wouldn't mind it if he and his wife joined us at the beach on Long Island. We said, Of course!
I suspect there are parents who might feel put upon when asked to give up their alone time. I regarded these requests as the fruits of a life well lived: our grown children actually wanted to be with us. So we had had another wonderful four days at the beach together in August, but by November there was also a perceptible urgency to this need for togetherness that was a bit disquieting. And I was very mindful of it when Jill and I set out for our yearly escape to Nantucket, for another Biden Family Thanksgiving.
We passed through the gates of the observatory, and I felt our government-required armored limousine make its customary gentle pivot onto Massachusetts Avenue, where local traffic had been halted to clear the path for our journey. I glanced at the squat, standing digital clock at the top of the driveway, as I had maybe a thousand times since we had moved into the official residence. Red numbers glowed, ticking away in metronomic perfection: 5:11:42, 5:11:43, 5:11:44, 5:11:45. This was the nation's Precise Time, which was generated less than a hundred yards away, by the U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock. Precise Time — synchronized to the millisecond — had been deemed an operational imperative by the Department of Defense, which had troops and bases in locations around the globe. 5:11:50, 5:11:51, 5:11:52.
Our limousine was already accelerating out of the turn, with an abrupt force that pushed me back into the soft leather seats. The clock was behind us in a flash, out of sight, but still marking the time as it melted away — 5:11:58, 5:11:59, 5:12:00. The motorcade arced toward the southeast, down one side of the circle around the observatory, and we could see the lights of the official residence as they flashed through leafless trees. I was happy to say good-bye to the house for a few days. Our departure meant that many of the naval enlisted aides who looked after us were free to spend the entire holiday with their own families.
The procession gained speed once we hit the parkway and our motorcycle escorts nudged aside other travelers. The motorcade traced the southern edge of Washington, within sight of the monuments and public buildings: Arlington National Cemetery, the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument — with the White House in the distance beyond it — the Jefferson Memorial, the United States Capitol. I had served in elective office in this city continuously since 1973, thirty-six years as a senator and six as vice president, but I had not grown indifferent to the beauty and import of these towering landmarks, which were now haloed in a glow of soft light. I still viewed those sturdy marble structures as representatives of our ideals, our hopes, and our dreams.
My working life in Washington had given me a sense of pride and accomplishment from the day I arrived, and that feeling had not dimmed after almost forty-two years. The truth was, on November 25, 2014, I was as excited and energized by my work as I had been at any time in my career, though my current office was, it must be admitted, a truly odd job. There is a strange and singular elasticity to the responsibilities of a vice president. As a strictly constitutional matter, the holder of the office has very little power. He or she is charged with breaking a tie vote in the Senate — which I had not been called to do in nearly six years — and waiting around to take over if the president is somehow disabled. A previous occupant was famously quoted as saying that the office is "not worth a bucket of warm spit." (That's the expurgated version. He did not say "spit.") The actual power of the office is reflective; it depends almost entirely on the trust and confidence of the president.
Barack Obama had handed me big things to run from the beginning of our first term, and once he assigned me to oversee the Recovery Act of 2009, or budget negotiations with Senator Mitch McConnell, or diplomatic relations with Iraq, he did not look over my shoulder. I believe I did my job well enough to earn and keep his trust. He sought my advice as much as ever at the end of 2014, and seemed to value it, which meant there were days when I felt that I had it in my power to help bend the course of history ever so slightly for the better.
And somewhere in the motorcade that evening, as we sped through the streets of Washington, was a car carrying the vice presidential military aide, who was in possession of the "nuclear football," which had to be within my reach at all times. I was one of only a handful of people who had control of the codes that could launch a nuclear strike on almost any target on the planet. So a reminder of the grave responsibilities of the office and the trust reposed in me was there, at all times, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
But in spite of all that, in spite of...
Produktinformation
- ASIN : B076CNXXD8
- Herausgeber : Macmillan; Main Market Edition (16. November 2017)
- Sprache : Englisch
- Dateigröße : 3331 KB
- Text-to-Speech (Vorlesemodus) : Aktiviert
- Screenreader : Unterstützt
- Verbesserter Schriftsatz : Aktiviert
- X-Ray : Aktiviert
- Word Wise : Aktiviert
- Haftnotizen : Auf Kindle Scribe
- Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe : 306 Seiten
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 201,863 in Kindle-Shop (Siehe Top 100 in Kindle-Shop)
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I'm not American, I'm Austrian. But still, last year, after I had read "Promise me, Dad" I felt the need to write a thank you letter to Mr. Biden.
So here is not only my first book review on Amazon, but below also my first letter to an American politician.
Dear Mr. Biden
I guess you receive countless E-mails with thank you notes every day. But I suppose not that many are from Austria.
And even though I don’t expect you will be reading them in person, after I have read your book „Promise me, Dad“ I still feel the need to write you some words.
I don’t remember any other book that has had such a profound impact on me and provided me with comfort in difficult times. Still mourning the loss of my mother, you sharing your personal experience and thereby giving strength and hope to other people is a tremendous gift.
I’d only wish that your book would also be published in German (and other languages), so that even more people, including my father, could read it. Therefore, I would be very thankful if your publisher would consider translating it.
And of course, I want to thank you for your outstanding service in politics: Your service as Vice President, but also your long-time service as Senator, especially in the Senate ‘s Foreign Relations Committee and now your work in the Biden Cancer Initiative and the Biden Foundation.
As a proud member of the Austro-American-Society I have delved into American history, admired political heroes of the past, from Washington, Lincoln, Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt and Kennedy. I was exited when you and President Obama took office. And more than ever, I miss the days when you both lead the country.
Time and time again I have also been frustrated, that many in Europe and in my home country of Austria don’t really appreciate what Americans have sacrificed and accomplished for freedom and democracy worldwide, and especially what we here in Europe and in Austria have to be thankful for.
Of course, the current US administration makes it hard to look with admiration to Washington. But when I watched your eulogy for Senator McCain, also a hero of mine, I was once again reminded what it means to be American and what American ideals stand for. And I have been reassured that as long as there are Americans like you, the United States truly are the world's last best hope, the beacon of the world.
And so even though I live far away, in the mountainous region of Austria, I still hope that one day I’ll have the opportunity to contribute in some way to your cause, to the American cause. Like President Kennedy said: Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
After I have read your book I have tremendous respect for your difficult decision not to run for the presidency. And you certainly have already done more to serve your country than anyone could ever ask for.
But just in case that there is still the slightest chance that you would consider running again, I wanted to let you know that not only many people in the United States would celebrate your candidacy, but even some guy far away in a small city of Villach somewhere in Austria.
Sincerely
Christoph
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Ce livre est bien écrit (anglais américain).
Il montre aussi le travail de Président Biden au quotidien (et c'est peut-être la partie la moins intéressante, c'est pour dire !).
The book blends Biden's comprehensive and agonising account of how his son, Beau, succumbed to the tragedy of a brain tumour with his efforts, as Vice-President, to resolve major foreign policy challenges, particularly in Iraq, Ukraine and Central America. This is, therefore, an unusual book but the author's approach worked for me. Although the sadness of the story is heart breaking, Biden's loving relationship with his son and family is inspiring. I felt privileged to be allowed into Joe Biden's grieving process as well as gaining an insight into how he applies his considerable political experience to resolve complex issues.
Learn about this man of remarkable character who not only loves his family, but who has an unfathomable depth of caring for the United States and its status and stature on the world stage. As a Canadian, I hope someone of his ilk (perhaps him?) will rise and rescue my Southern neighbour and friend from its current darkness.
This book is an inspiring read and I highly recommend it to all world citizens.
This autobiography goes through Vice President Joe Biden's life as he and his family struggle with Beau Biden’s diagnosis and battle with a rare form of brain cancer. Throughout his career as a senator and Vice President, VP Biden gained a reputation for being a grounded, kind, and intelligent individual. It is astonishing how this and his genuine warmth radiates off of the pages. It is also interesting to note how well written it is. Whether VP Biden is describing his family’s yearly thanksgiving trip to Nantucket or the walls of the hospital hallways as his son is being carted to surgery, he does so with a simple clarity that makes you feel like you are there. You are reminded of your own experiences as he describes his own to you.
There is so much that can be taken away from this book. Those who have struggled with a family member’s illness will find a brother in arms. Those who are interested in politics will find a treasure trove of interesting tidbits on the inner workings of the US government. And whether intentionally or not, VP Biden’s book offers subtle lessons on how to be a better father and person. As I read it, I find myself aspiring to live up to the standard set by the author and his family.
The book still sits by my bed. Not being a very large book, it is easy to hold. The cover is an opaque white with simple blue and red text. As I look over to it now, it reminds me of how I feel as I reflect upon VP Biden’s experiences. One does not need to be flashy to be important. One does need to be “great” to have meaning. Kindness is not a weakness. Men can be defined by their genuineness.
I will close by noting the almost theatrical feeling of the opening pages. In typical Joe Biden style, it begins with a quote from Immanuel Kant. It is one which hides incredible meaning behind incredibly simple words. It is one befitting the author and one which immediately struck me and has sat with me since:
“Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
VP Biden, although tragic, your son’s death has been given meaning. Thank you for sharing it with us.