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# Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Inspirational
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2024*

A heartfelt true life store about hooe and dispair from the man who would ascend to the highest office in the land.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Treatise on Grief
  

*by F***N on Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2017*

Joe Biden’s book PROMISE ME, DAD is not like any memoir I have ever read by another politician. It is raw, extremely personal and very honest.  He writes so movingly about what has to be every parent’s worst nightmare:  the death of a child. And as we all know, if we know anything about Mr. Biden, this is the second child he has lost:  he lost a young daughter years ago along with his first wife in a tragic automobile accident.  His book covers the last year of his oldest and beloved son’s life and his valiant fight with a deadly malignant kind of brain tumor.Mr. Biden’s book is almost a treatise on grief or how to deal with the death of a child or the loss of anyone: the putting on a good, composed face to meet the world while weeping in private; the keeping up with a daily routine, going to work, putting one foot in front of the other; the dependence on and drawing strength from family members and friends.  And he says that he knows from “previous experience that grief is a process that respects no schedule and no timetable.”  (The divine Miss Emily Dickinson would say that “sorrow has its own season.” Then Mr. Biden confirms what those of us who have waded through our own pools of grief know all too well: “I knew also, from hard-earned experience, that the second year is in some ways the hardest. The shock is over, as is the strangeness of living through all the first holidays and anniversaries and birthdays, and the undeniable permanence of the loss begins to settle in.”  And the ultimate, sad truth as this good man writes so poignantly: “But I have come to understand that nobody can really take away all the pain, no matter how close. There are times when each of us must bear the burden of loss alone, and in his or her own way.”I was much moved with the Vice President’s comments about his relationship—friendship is a better word—with President Obama. They continued to have their weekly lunches during the time of his son’s illness. “Barack was the first person outside my family to know of Beau’s illness,” Mr. Biden writes. And he tells of the President’s offer of money if the family needed it. “’I’ll give you the money. You can pay me back whenever.’” In one luncheon with the President when Mr. Biden relates to him the difficulties that his son has been having, he recalls that he was hurting and the President obviously could see it: “I looked up and Barack was in tears.”Mr. Biden comes through on every page as the most decent of people. One such instance: he recounts giving a eulogy for one of the two ambushed police officers African American Rafael Ramos in New York in December, 2014. After the service he and his wife Jill visit the home of the parents of the slain Chinese American officer Wenjian Liu. Before he leaves, Mr. Biden gives his personal private phone number to the police officer’s father and encourages him to call him when he wants to talk.Mr. Biden also writes of what he continues doing in his job as vice president, the international trips he takes and his toying with running for president. But in the end, this compelling, beautiful book is a tribute to his loving wonderful son. As he remembers as Beau is slipping away: “I knew that I was loved.”Such a fine book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A deep dive into the heart and soul of Joe Biden and the circumstances that shaped his character.
  

*by L***Z on Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2020*

I am writing this review during strange circumstances. The 2020 elections already took place on Tuesday this week, and as of Saturday the news outlets are still hesitant to declare Joe Biden the winner, although the probability that he does not win is close to zero. The informal institutions in the United States are broken. There will be no concession from President Trump, nor a gracious transition of power. The strength of formal institutions will be tested in the forthcoming days.In the midst of this polarized atmosphere, I read Biden’s book. This is his personal account of the  last days of this son Beau Biden while Joe Biden was Vice-president of the United States. The book is well written and it is consistent with the Joe Biden one knows from speeches and interviews. “You get what you see”. Biden tells his story, the story of a family man who lost his first wife and his daughter in a car accident and who found grace, hope and purpose in his faith. This newfound purpose in life was later tested with the passing of this older son Beau after fighting an aggressive glioblastoma.The book is about family and it is about politics. But these two are not treated as different subjects. “Politics is personal” is a recurrent quote of Biden. This is a story of how politics run in a family in such…. just now, CNN announced Biden as the next president of the United States!Ok, back to my review after more than a few hours of uninterrupted consumption of news.The book intertwines the experience of Joe Biden as a father during the diagnostic, treatment and death of his son Beau Biden while carrying forward with the duties of the office of Vice-president of the United States. It is not an autobiography that traces the arch from his early beginnings until his election as President as an inevitable tour de force. On the contrary, it is a pause to reflect on this particular period of time that tested the faith and character of the Biden family.I learned from this book the utmost importance of professional politics and how this enterprise is a lifetime project that involves an entire family. I learned how values do shape politics and ultimately, rather than changing a person’s character, a political platform highlights personal attributes for better or worse. More importantly, I learned about the role of hope and purpose to overcome the darkest shadows in our paths.

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