Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

By Joe Biden

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics & Social Sciences

Promises to Keep (2007) is a memoir Joe Biden wrote while serving as a US senator from Delaware. Biden writes about his childhood stutter and working-class family in Scranton and Delaware, his first election to the Senate at twenty-nine, and the car crash weeks afterward that killed his wife and daughter. He describes raising his sons, remarrying, his failed 1988 presidential campaign and brain aneurysms, and his work on the Judiciary and Foreign Relations committees.

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• Ryan Holiday: “In the last few weeks I read biographies or memoirs of: Fidel Castro, Toussaint Louverture, PT Barnum, Martin Luther, Langston Hughes, Arnold Rothstein, Wyatt Earp, George Washington, Seneca, Sammy Davis Jr, ... Da Vinci, ... Olaudah Equiano, and Joe Biden.”