NEW YORK (AP) – Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden and a permanent target of the Conservatives, has a memoir published on April 6th.
The book is called “Beautiful Things” and will focus on young Biden’s widespread struggles with substance abuse, according to Gallery Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint. Acquired in the fall of 2019, “Beautiful Things” remained confined even as Biden’s trade relations became a fixation of then-President Donald Trump and others during the election and his finances on a matter of Department of Justice investigation.
“Beautiful Things” was spread among several authors and includes advanced accolades from Stephen King, Dave Eggers and Anne Lamott.
“In his creepy, readable compulsive readings, Hunter Biden once again demonstrates that anyone – even the son of a U.S. president – can ride the pink horse through the nightmare alley,” King writes in his speech. “Biden remembers everything and explains it with a courage that is both heartbreaking and very beautiful. It starts with a question: Where is Hunter? The answer is that it is in this book, the good, the bad and the beautiful ”.
In an excerpt published by Gallery, Biden writes in his book, “I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable and unbreakable love.”
During one of last fall’s presidential debates, Joe Biden defended his son from Trump’s attacks.
“My son, like a lot of people, like a lot of people you know at home, had a drug problem,” the Democratic candidate said. “It simply came to our notice then. He has fixed it. I have worked there and I am proud of it. I am proud of my son. “
Hunter Biden, who turned 51 on Thursday, is the eldest surviving son of the president, who lost his first wife and 1-year-old daughter, Naomi, in a 1972 car accident, and his son Beau Biden, who suffered from brain cancer in 2015. The title of Hunter’s book refers to an expression he and his brother would use with each other after Beau’s diagnosis, intended to emphasize what was important in life. .
Hunter Biden is a lawyer and former lobbyist whose work helped lead to Trump’s first ouster. Biden joined the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma in 2014, when his father, then vice president of the United States, helped carry out the Obama administration’s foreign policy in the region. Trump and others have insisted Biden was exploiting his father’s name, and raised allegations of corruption without evidence. The House of Representatives voted to prosecute Trump in 2019 after learning that he had pressured the President of Ukraine to announce that he was investigating the Bidens. Trump was acquitted by the Senate.
Last December, Hunter Biden confirmed that the Justice Department was studying his tax matters, and later The Associated Press reported that he had received a subpoena to ask him to interact with numerous business entities. Although Trump made it clear publicly that he wanted a special attorney to handle the investigation, then-Attorney General William Barr has not appointed any. Biden has denied any offense.
The financial terms of “Beautiful Things”, which was written in collaboration with author and journalist Drew Jubera, were not disclosed. Biden and his editor are likely to face criticism from Republicans for their memoirs, though the books of members of the presidential family are nothing new. During Trump’s presidency, son Donald Trump Jr. he released two books, “Triggered” and “Liberal Privilege.”
New York publishers typically adopt authors with a wide range of political views, and Simon & Schuster has published books by Trump and Sean Hannity, along with bestsellers against Trump, such as former national security adviser John Bolton, “The Room Where It Happened,” and presidential niece Mary Trump, “Too Much and Never Enough.”
The publisher signed a book last fall by one of Trump’s main supporters in Washington, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, but dropped it following Hawley’s support. for the Jan. 6 protest that sparked the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters who mistakenly believed the president had been re-elected.