PositiveThe New RepublicJoe Biden’s memoir Promise Me, Dad is many things. It is a snapshot of a painful period of Biden’s life, as his son, Beau, fights a highly aggressive form of brain cancer and eventually dies in June of 2015. It’s a powerful look at how illness and bereavement can permeate every facet of a politician’s personal and professional life ...emblematic of the qualities that made Biden a popular vice president: his ability to empathize, particularly when discussing grief; the fact that he really seems to give a damn ...ends with Biden laying out how he would have run in the 2016 election—and there’s not much that’s small about it ...there are long chunks of this book that suggest that Biden is more out of touch with the Democratic Party than he thinks.
