Hunter comforts his father after his swearing in as the 46th president of the United States
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Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden and a magnet for criticism by conservatives, is to release a memoir in April, the publisher Simon and Schuster announced on Thursday, his 51st birthday.
Publication of the book, Beautiful Things, was kept secret during his father’s election campaign last year, although Biden signed the deal to write it in 2019, the publisher said.
The “harrowing and compulsively readable memoir,” in the words of the bestselling novelist Stephen King, will focus on Biden’s battles with substance abuse in younger life and how the family recovered from the tragic deaths of his mother and baby sister in a 1972 car accident when he was three.
Mr Biden’s 2014 appointment as an energy company director in Ukraine, while Joe Biden was conducting US foreign policy in the region as Barack Obama’s vice-president, became a flash point of the 2020 election campaign and led to the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
Allies of the former president insisted Mr Biden exploited his father’s position to enrich himself, and Mr Trump was impeached by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives in December 2019 over allegations he pressured Ukraine to “dig up dirt” on the Bidens by withholding military aid.
Trump, acquitted by the US Senate, attacked Hunter Biden during a wild presidential debate in September, prompting an emotional defence by Joe Biden.
"My son, like a lot of people, like a lot of people you know at home, had a drug problem," he said. "He’s overtaken it. He’s fixed it. He’s worked on it, and I’m proud of him.”
Beautiful Things will be published by the Simon and Schuster subsidiary Gallery Books on April 6. In his endorsement, King says the book addresses the question “Where’s Hunter?”, which conservatives used to mock Joe Biden during the election campaign.
“The answer is he’s in this book, the good, the bad, and the beautiful,” King wrote.
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