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Promise me, dad joe biden s son, beau, died more than two years ago at the age of 46 after a battle with brain cancer. Such books have become obligatory for serious candidates to get their history, policies and bona fides in front of the voting public. Joe bidens memoir offers diary entries of son beaus last. The book is a memoir, a love letter, and a call to action rolled in one. Joe bidens first postvice presidency memoir due in. Promise me, dad is a brisk, often uplifting read, a consequence of its authors congenital jollity and irrepressible candor. The book recounts bidens experience of trying to balance his son beaus brain cancer diagnosis and eventual death with his responsibilities.
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