Joe Biden to sign presidential memoirs for US$10 million with Hachette

Former U.S. President Joe Biden has closed a multimillion-dollar deal with the publisher Hachette to publish his presidential memoirs, focusing on his term between 2021 and 2025. According to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal, the Democrat would have received an advance of about 10 million dollars. Although a title and publication date have not yet been defined, the book will be part of the traditional genre of “presidential memoirs” in the U.S., works that usually offer an inside look at the exercise of power and the main events experienced during the administration, without delving into personal aspects or stages prior to the presidency. You can also read: Macron announces that France will recognize the State of Palestine The agreed-upon amount is considerable, although lower than that of other Democratic former presidents, such as Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, who signed contracts for much higher figures after leaving office. Biden, 82 years old, was represented by the Creative Artists agency, the same one that managed his personal memoir Promise Me, Dad (2017), focused on his son Beau’s fight against cancer. The news of the new publishing contract comes months after Biden publicly announced that he suffers from aggressive prostate cancer, with bone metastasis. Furthermore, in 2024, the president made the historic decision to withdraw from the electoral race, after increasingly visible signs of cognitive decline, according to analysts and US media.