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President Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama’s beloved, influential vice president.

‘I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling.’ – Joe Biden

Joe Biden has both witnessed and participated in a momentous epoch of American history. In Promises to Keep, he reveals what these experiences taught him about himself, his colleagues, and the institutions of government.

With his customary honesty and wit, Biden movingly and eloquently 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 relationships with presidents, world leaders, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle; and his leadership of powerful Senate committees.

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 honour family and faith; to value persistence, candour, and honesty ― are the foundation on which he has based his life’s work as husband, father, and public servant.

Promises to Keep is an intimate series of reflections from a politician who surmounted numerous challenges to become one of America’s most effective leaders and who refuses to be cynical about politics. It is also a stirring testament to the promise of the United States.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribe UK; 1st edition (January 14, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1913348822
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1913348823
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 5 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.53 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.08 x 0.94 x 7.8 inches

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Joe Biden represented Delaware for 36 years in the U.S. Senate before serving as 47th Vice President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. As the Vice President, Joe Biden addressed important issues facing the nation and represented America abroad, traveling over 1.2 million miles to more than 50 countries. He convened sessions of the President’s Cabinet, led interagency efforts, and worked with Congress in his fight to raise the living standards of middle class Americans, reduce gun violence, address violence against women, and end cancer as we know it.

Since leaving the White House, Vice President Biden continues his legacy of expanding opportunity for all with the creation of the Biden Foundation, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Biden Institute for Domestic Policy at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics and the forthcoming memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose (on sale Nov. 14).

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Marilyn Brown

wonderful!

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2023

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Joes extensive background is so deep and rich in foreign and domestic policy. His strength is in bringing people together to solve problems.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2023

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The supposed author obviously had help writing this book. It was a decent read and gave insight into one of our least competent chief executives.

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I really like Joe Biden. Heck, I think most everybody likes Joe Biden. He's a sensible, straightforward, likeable guy. But this was written in 2007, and not one word in it about Barack Obama. The cover refers to him as "the Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate," but this is the paperback. It refers to the book as "New York Times Bestseller," so clearly this was written as his presidential campaign was getting underway. This year he has said he won't run unless Hillary Clinton does not run, so my dream of a President Biden once more goes on the back burner. But like Teddy Kennedy, Biden was born to be a Senator. He entered the Senate only just old enough to take the oath of office: his 30th birthday was after he was elected but before he actually took office. Delaware knew a good man when it saw one, and has re-elected him ever since. Biden was placed on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee early in his career, and eventually became its chairman. It was in that capacity that he made much of the history for which he will be remembered, including scathing criticism of the Bush/Cheney policies in the Middle East. I was surprised by how much I did not know about all that, forgetting that there was a policy of disinformation during their 8 years in office. You tend to forget facts you don't have. He was also in the Senate Judiciary Committee and was largely responsible for the Violence Against Women Act. The fight to pass that without the right-wingnuts gutting it was heroic, and mostly because he could work behind the scenes, talk to other Senators, and not say anything he would not have said in front of a camera. With Biden, what you see is what you get. At the end of the book is an entire page of paragraphs that begin "I see a future in which . . ." that summarizes the tasks ahead that are important to him, as is appropriate in a campaign biography. and they are all very noble progressive values. like renewable energy, universal health care, securing Social Security, and generally the goodness of the American people. Hey, Joe; what about four or eight more years as VP?

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Rebecca Z.

An interested read from our President-Elect

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2020

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This book relives Joe Biden's life, from youth to adulthood (right before he stops his 2008 presidential campaign to run with Obama). I knew Biden to be a man who was truly good, but this book solidified my feelings towards him. Joe has been through some of the worst pain imaginable, yet went on with his life knowing that he could do good things for this country. Parts of this novel are dedicated to his policy views and various events that have occurred throughout his lengthy time as Delaware's senator. I never knew his deep political feelings or goals, so it was really nice to understand them in depth while realizing this will be our next President-elect. Joe Biden is a man of good faith, comes from a great family, and always has everyone else's best intentions in mind. I'm ready to read his next book (although I know it'll be more of an emotional read).

I bought this book right after I voted early for Joe Biden. I'm young, but I was barely a teenager when my dad took me to the last 2012 Obama campaign rally in my hometown. I remember how amazing it was back then to feel like we were going to have a president that truly cares (I couldn't vote then, but still). Now, being a young adult living on her own, I can understand why my dad believed in Obama and Biden to be some of the best candidates for our country.

*I would rate this 4.75 stars just because it can get a little policy-heavy and contains a lot of speech excerpts.

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This kindlebook that is Promises To Keep On Life and Politics by Joe Biden is another kindlebook that I am glad to have taken the chance to purchase with money made from my current job. A sampling of the following details in this kindlebook include: details on his parents and siblings, some of this family members were Truman democrats and/or supporters of Eisenhower, how he met his first wife Nelia Hunter, one of his early jobs at a firm that represented big insurance companies, railroads, construction companies and oil companies etc, the birth of his two sons in 1969 and 1970, the purchase of a farm twenty five minutes away in Elkton Maryland, the life period of Neilia’s job working at a local Catholic grade school while he (Joe Biden) worked as an attorney and lifeguarded on Saturdays, a career victory when Joe Biden won a particular election in November 1970, reference to the tv show Candid Camera, some details on the life period of Joe Biden coping with Nelia unexpectedly dying young and Joe Biden unexpectedly becoming a widower while also coping with his daughter Naomi’s death, when Joe Biden first noticed and met his eventual current wife Jill Biden, the birth of his daughter some time after marrying Jill Biden, the author’s assignment to the Senate Intelligence Committee, and much more.

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Marie

Profundamente Inspirador

Reviewed in Spain on July 26, 2022

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Cuarta página del libro:

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Pensaba que este libro se había editado por primera vez este año, pero no, la primera fue en el 2007.
Joe Biden ha sido siempre así, una persona alta y profundamente inspirada. Mi ignorancia no me ha permitido darme cuenta de ello hasta ahora.

Joe Biden💝💝💝

Lo que más me ha subyugado, y al leerlo no podía parar de llorar, es por las dos mujeres de su vida. Cito del libro cuando Joe Biden conoció a su esposa Neilia:

"When she turned toward me, I could see she had a beautiful smile and gorgeous green eyes." "She was lit by the unforgiving journey of a full afternoon sun, and I couln't see a single flaw."

Y lo que su esposa Jill le dijo:

"Anybody who can love that deeply once can do it again".

Jill es una gran mujer inspiradora para las mujeres del mundo.

(La foto de la portada es preciosa). He leído que la tipografía es Sabon...y que su creador era un entusiasta de la estética de la Bauhaus. Me cuesta leer por vista cansada y esta letra es perfecta, no me cansa nada la vista. Un 10.

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Mark Davis

Great book by the current president.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 6, 2022

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I appreciated reading this book, by Joe Biden, it makes sense and details some of his life and history, good price and value for money too.

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A very interesting read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 13, 2021

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I really read or buy autobiographies has I often think that they are written to soon in the subject life but this one like very few others I have read was done at the right time.
As I was reading this I felt like I was in the room with joe Biden instead of just reading a book of his experiences and life in my home alone .

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Hylas Silveira Barros Junior

Excelente e Perfeito

Reviewed in Brazil on September 29, 2022

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Livro em perfeito estado ótimo atendimento tudo top. Recomendo imensamente

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Dhalu

It’s too early for a review as I just started to read this book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 25, 2020

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For a second hand product, it looked and felt like a new product.

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