Joe Biden's memoir will arrive in bookstores on November 17, just weeks after the midterm elections. The book is titled Promise Me, America and will be published by Little, Brown. It runs 448 pages.
According to Deadline, Biden announced the release in a video in which he described the book's scope. "It's about the challenges we have faced as a nation, about the decisions I made, why I made them," Biden said. "Leading the country through Covid, rebuilding our economy and restoring our democracy after the attack on January 6. Ending our nation's longest war in Afghanistan, strengthening NATO and supporting Ukraine. It's about why I chose to run for president and why I chose to step aside. Most of all, it's about my faith in the promise of America."
Publisher Little, Brown says the memoir will, for the first time, reveal the deeply agonizing calculation behind his decision in the summer of 2024 to step aside from the presidential race and to put his party and the nation before his personal ambitions.
Biden also used the video to address his health, saying his treatment for cancer has been going really well.
The timing of the release drew attention earlier this year. Biden had previously suggested the memoir could come out before the November elections, a prospect that made some Democrats uneasy. Their preference has been to keep the fall political focus on Donald Trump rather than on Biden's 2024 exit from the race.
The November 17 date puts the book safely past Election Day. Former First Lady Jill Biden published her own memoir, View from the East Wing, in June.
