Overview
- Biden announced the memoir in a short video on Wednesday, July 15, and Little, Brown and Company confirmed the book will publish on Nov. 17 and is available for preorder.
- He said the book will recount his four-year presidency and for the first time explain the “deeply agonizing calculation” behind his decision to step aside from the 2024 reelection race.
- The two‑week gap between Election Day and the book’s release has prompted concern among Democratic leaders who fear it could revive debate over the 2024 campaign during a drive to win back control of Congress.
- In the announcement Biden gave a personal health update, saying he is undergoing cancer treatment that is “going really well,” and the publisher said he will do a national book tour and media interviews.
- Little, Brown declined to disclose financial terms for the deal, which follows a pattern of big advances for presidential memoirs even as nonfiction sales have softened this year.