Promises to keep / Joe Biden
- Bib ID:
- 8549358
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Biden, Joseph R., Jr, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2021
- ©2007
- 1 online resource (400 unnumbered pages)
- ISBN:
- 9781925938968
- Summary:
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"President Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama's beloved, influential vice president. 'I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling.' - Joe Biden. Joe Biden has both witnessed and participated in a momentous epoch of American history. In Promises to Keep, he reveals what these experiences taught him about himself, his colleagues, and the institutions of government. With his customary honesty and wit, Biden movingly and eloquently recounts growing up in a staunchly Catholic multigenerational household in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware; overcoming personal tragedy, life-threatening illness, and career setbacks; his relationships with presidents, world leaders, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle; and his leadership of powerful Senate committees. Through these and other recollections, Biden shows us how the guiding principles he learned early in life - to work to make people's lives better; to honour family and faith; to value persistence, candour, and honesty - are the foundation on which he has based his life's work as husband, father, and public servant. Promises to Keep is an intimate series of reflections from a politician who surmounted numerous challenges to become one of America's most effective leaders and who refuses to be cynical about politics. It is also a stirring testament to the promise of the United States."--Publisher.
- Full contents:
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- Impedimenta
- Neilia
- Something that will last
- The doors swing open
- Give me six months
- A start
- Jill
- Transitions
- This can't hurt us
- Intellectual combat
- You have to win this
- The kind of man I wanted to be
- Time will tell
- Engage
- Effort pays
- New opportunities
- The dark
- The informed consent of the American people
- My mistake
- Why?
- Promises to keep.
- Notes:
- General.
- Subject:
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- Biden, Joseph R., Jr
- United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography
- E<U+00cc><U+0081>tats-Unis. Congress. Senate -- Biographies
- États-Unis. Congress. Senate -- Biographies
- United States. Congress. Senate
- Autobiographies
- Historians -- Biography
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography
- Military biography
- Political leadership
- Politicians -- Biography
- Presidents -- Biography
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- Statesmen -- Biography
- Vice-presidents -- United States -- Biography
- War diaries
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiography: historical, political & military
- Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography - Political
- Biography & Autobiography - Presidents & Heads Of State
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|Historical|
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|Personal Memoirs|
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|Political|
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|Presidents|
- Central / national / federal government
- Historians
- Legislators
- Memoirs
- Political leaders & leadership
- Political Science - Federal Government
- Political Science - Practical Politics
- POLITICAL SCIENCE|American Government|National|
- POLITICAL SCIENCE|Leadership|
- POLITICAL SCIENCE|Practical Politics|
- Politicians
- Politics and government
- Presidents
- Statesmen
- United States of America, USA
- Usa
- Vice-presidents
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
- United States
- Other authors/contributors:
- Scribe
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2007
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