Former President Joe Biden announced his memoir, titled Promise Me, America, will be released on November 17, just after the midterm elections, covering events of his presidency and his re-election bid. Some reports noted Democrats had raised concerns that an earlier release could hurt the party at the ballot box. Separately, Biden is fighting a Justice Department effort to release recordings and transcripts related to the memoir, a legal dispute that judges have ruled against him on.
The New York Times coverage is brief and neutral in tone, reporting the memoir's release date and title, and separately covering a legal dispute over Biden's effort to keep memoir-related recordings private from the Justice Department, without editorializing on Biden's health or motives.
No centrist outlet in our set has published this story.
Right-leaning outlets (Daily Wire, Breitbart, Fox News) frame the memoir announcement as a political embarrassment, emphasizing that Democrats allegedly pressured Biden to delay the release until after the midterms to avoid electoral damage, and extensively feature conservative social media mockery questioning whether Biden actually wrote the book, tying this to broader narratives about his age, cognitive decline, and use of an autopen while in office.