The book by the 51-year-old son of President Joe Biden, published on April 6, sold 10,638 copies in its first week, according to Publisher’s Weekly’s sales list, placing it at No. 12 in the list of top U.S. hardcover nonfiction sales.
As of Thursday night, it sat at No. 208 on Amazon's "Best Sellers" list and No. 4 on the New York Times bestsellers list for "Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction."
The book is Biden’s story of his life, describing everything from his response to the death of his brother, Beau, to his second marriage and struggles with drug use.
“After Beau died, I never felt more alone. I lost hope,” he signed, detailing elsewhere how his three daughters and two counselors from a Pennsylvania rehabilitation center, where he was formerly a patient, had staged an intervention over his addiction.
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Biden’s promo rounds for the book, which placed him in front of many television audiences, have themselves been newsmakers.
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In an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning, Biden announced he didn’t know whether the laptop that is believed to be part of a Justice Department investigation into his tax matters is really his or not.
“For real, I don’t know. I really don’t know what the answer is,” Biden stated. “That’s the truthful answer.”
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In a different interview, when Anthony Mason of CBS This Morning asked him regarding the laptop, Biden answered, “Well, it’s — you don’t need a laptop. You’ve got a book. The book — it’s all in the book. And I don’t know.”
The book mentioned the laptop only once, in a passage written as a letter to his brother, stating, “Your strength and love was embodied in the strength and love that surrounded me. That was never truer than when Giuliani, Bannon, and their collaborators purported to have a laptop that chronicled the lurid details of my descent into addiction the last three years.”
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The younger Biden was himself a focal point throughout the 2020 presidential campaign, even before the laptop saga developed, as former President Donald Trump and other Republicans declared that he unethically benefited in his business dealings because of his father's status in Washington.
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“I became a proxy for Donald Trump’s fear that he wouldn’t be reelected,” Biden wrote in his new book. “He pushed debunked conspiracy theories about work I did in Ukraine and China.”
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Of his son's memoir, the president announced in February, "The honesty with which he stepped forward and talked about the problem and the hope that — it gave me hope reading it," continuing, "I mean, it was like, 'My boy's back.' You know what I mean?"
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