Overview
- Publisher Little, Brown announced on Wednesday that Promise Me, America will go on sale November 17, 2026, and is available for preorder.
- The former president says the memoir will explain his decisions in office and, for the first time, reveal the “deeply agonizing calculation” behind his choice to step aside from the 2024 race.
- The timing—two weeks after the midterms—has drawn attention because party officials want the campaign to stay focused on current administration issues rather than revisit 2024 events.
- Biden used the announcement video to update his health, saying he has been treated for cancer and that treatment is “going really well,” and the publisher said he will support the book with interviews and a tour.
- Little, Brown declined to disclose financial terms; the book covers major policy subjects from COVID-19 to Afghanistan and Ukraine, and it joins a recent wave of books that have examined his presidency and final campaign.