The fatal car wreck took place three weeks before Joe Biden was elected to the Senate.ģ. The phrase becomes another of the book’s mantras and the foundation of the brothers’ friendship. He then remembers waking up in a hospital bed with Beau in the next bed over, mouthing “I love you” to Hunter over and over. (He acknowledges that the memory may be a composite of family stories, news accounts, and “actual repressed memory.”) He describes seeing himself in the back of the family’s white Chevy station wagon alongside Beau, his sister asleep in a bassinet in the front passenger seat, when a tractor-trailer slammed into the side of their car, killing his mother and sister instantly. He remembers the family’s tragic car wreck.Īlthough he was under 3 years of age at the time of the crash, Hunter writes that he has a vivid “single flash of memory” of the car accident that claimed his mother’s and baby sister’s lives. Beau died a little over a month later his last words to his brother were to describe the view from his front porch as beautiful.Ģ. “Politics are in the Biden bloodstream,” Hunter writes. Instead, they discussed Beau’s previously announced run for governor of Delaware, which he had hoped to resume after the surgery. He says they spoke little about practical concerns, like what to do if Beau were to die. In the last weeks of Beau’s life, Hunter writes that he had to help his brother use the toilet and the shower, and he set up an app on Beau’s phone meant to regulate his breathing. Hunter writes that if he could do it again, he wouldn’t agree to put Beau through most of the treatments - especially the radiation, which, he writes, made it difficult for Beau to speak or put on his shoes. Much of the early part of the book focuses on Beau’s diagnosis and the various treatments the family pursued in an attempt to beat his very slim odds of survival. The book’s title was inspired by Hunter’s late brother’s mantra: “Beautiful things,” meaning the pursuit of simple joys and noble causes they hoped to share after Beau recovered from cancer. The book is primarily “a Biden love story.” He delves into all of the above (some in more detail than others) in his new memoir, Beautiful Things, which will be published by Gallery Books on April 6. (They split in 2019 months later, he married his now-wife, Melissa, a week after they met.) He is a lawyer, venture capitalist, and sometime painter. Hunter has struggled with substance abuse and made headlines for dating his brother’s widow, Hallie, in 2017. Hunter Biden has had a famously tragic family past, losing his mother and younger sister to a car crash when he was a very young child and then his brother, Beau, an Iraq War veteran, to brain cancer in 2015. We know how that worked out: Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States notwithstanding his son’s controversies, though Trump took some time to admit it.
In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, the Trump campaign targeted Hunter - who spoke in support of his father alongside his sister, Ashley, at the Democratic National Convention - highlighting his allegedly corrupt business dealings in a digital ad campaign meant to cast an immoral shadow over Biden’s prospective presidency. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, now 51 years old, has had an often publicly tumultuous past. Photo: Teresa Kroeger/2016 Teresa Kroeger
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