{"id":139154,"date":"2026-07-15T04:21:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/biden-will-publish-promise-me-america-memoir-after-the-november-midterm-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T04:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:21:59","slug":"biden-will-publish-promise-me-america-memoir-after-the-november-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/biden-will-publish-promise-me-america-memoir-after-the-november-midterm-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden will publish ‘Promise Me, America’ memoir after the November midterm elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This book cover image released by Little, Brown and Co. shows "Promise Me, America" by Joe Biden. (Little, Brown and Co. via AP)<\/span>(Little, Brown and Co. via AP)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Former President Joe Biden<\/a> will publish a memoir this fall, publisher Little, Brown and Company told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cPromise Me, America,\u201d which Biden says will touch upon everything from the economy to his decision to drop his bid for reelection, is scheduled to come out Nov. 17.<\/p>\n

The timing of the book \u2014 two weeks after midterm elections in which Democrats seek to regain control of Congress \u2014 could raise concerns within his party. Many Democrats remain divided on Biden’s legacy and his ill-fated determination to seek a second term in the White House, and leaders hope to keep the fall campaign focused on the record of Republican President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201c’Promise Me, America’ is about the challenges we faced as a nation. It\u2019s about the decisions I made and why I made them,\u201d Biden said in a video statement accompanying Wednesday’s announcement. \u201cMost of all, it\u2019s about my faith in the promise of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reports of Biden’s book have circulated for more than a year, and the former president himself has referred to it during public remarks, appearing to suggest it would be released before November’s election.<\/p>\n

Biden, who will turn 84 three days after the publication of \u201cPromise Me, America,” has long presented himself as an upholder of standards and traditions; presidential memoirs are one of them. With a handful of exceptions, modern presidents since Harry Truman in the 1950s have published books about their White House years. Little, Brown declined to release financial details for \u201dPromise Me, America,” although presidents have usually reached deals worth at least seven figures.<\/p>\n

The book’s title echoes a 2017 memoir by Biden<\/a>, \u201cPromise Me, Dad,\u201d which centered on the death of his son, Beau Biden.<\/p>\n

Vowing as a candidate to \u201crestore the soul\u201d of his country, Biden was sworn into office<\/a> in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters seeking to stop his certification as president. Biden’s term was defined by a wide range of conflicts and achievements, from his handling of wars in Ukraine and the Middle East to the passage of ambitious infrastructure and economic aid bills. But many readers will likely want to know more about his health while president, including the disastrous debate in June 2024 against Trump that led to his giving up his reelection bid. Then-Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a>, who ran instead, lost decisively to Trump.<\/p>\n

Former first lady Jill Biden<\/a> wrote in her own book that her husband seemed so weak and disoriented during the debate that she feared he was having a stroke. In \u201cView from the East Wing,\u201d published in June, she noted that the White House had initially said he was suffering from a cold.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest lesson for us, I think, was that if you don\u2019t explain something well enough then the question won\u2019t go away,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThere was never a satisfying enough explanation offered for Joe\u2019s debate performance, and a lot of people never got over it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden was the oldest man to serve as president<\/a> and his health was a source of speculation for much of his term; Biden and his White House advisers have faced intense criticism from Democrats and Republicans for allegedly concealing the extent of his problems. A notable book release from 2025, Jake Tapper’s and Alex Thompson’s \u201cOriginal Sin,\u201d was subtitled \u201cPresident Biden\u2019s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.\u201d<\/p>\n

That year, Biden announced he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.<\/p>\n

Biden’s previous books also include \u201cPromises to Keep,\u201d a campaign work published to boost his run for president in 2008, when Barack Obama<\/a> was the eventual nominee and Biden his running mate. \u201dPromise Me, America” comes out during a year when nonfiction sales have declined and few political books have caught on, although recent bestsellers have included Vice President JD Vance’s \u201cCommunion\u201d<\/a> and an inside account of Trump’s second term, by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, \u201cRegime Change.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Little, Brown spokesperson said that Biden plans to tour on behalf of the book and give interviews. In his video announcement, Biden said that many people had been asking him how he was doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been spending a lot of time with my family. I\u2019m dealing with a cancer diagnosis, been getting treatment, and it\u2019s going really well,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to thank all those who have offered their prayers and support and well-wishes. It\u2019s meant the world to me and to Jill.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This book cover image released by Little, Brown and Co. shows "Promise Me, America" by Joe Biden. (Little, Brown and Co. via AP)(Little, Brown and Co. via AP) NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Former President Joe Biden will publish a memoir this fall, publisher Little, Brown and Company told The Associated Press. \u201cPromise Me, America,\u201d which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5734],"tags":[],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-139154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-associated-press"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139154"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=139154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}