Jill
A Biography of the First Lady
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2.5 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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The personal and political life of First Lady Dr. Jill Biden
Dr. Jill Biden has been described as President Joe Biden’s greatest political asset. Like many women of her generation, she holds her commitments as wife, mother and grandmother at the center of her life. She is a professor, earned a doctorate in educational leadership, and taught at Northern Virginia Community College. She broke barriers as First Lady as the first to hold a paying job outside the White House. “Jill” is the story of this accomplished American woman.
From her earliest days dating Senator Biden, to her embrace of Biden’s young sons Beau and Hunter Biden and the birth of their daughter Ashley; her role by Joe Biden’s side through Senate reelection race after Senate reelection race; her years as Second Lady; to Joe’s successful third run for the Democratic presidential nomination, Jill has lived in the public eye. In this deeply reported biography, Julie Pace and Darlene Superville of The Associated Press, along with writer Evelyn M. Duffy, reveal some of the private sides of Jill Biden. We come to better understand her personality, which has held the Biden family together through tragedy and good fortune alike.
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First Lady Jill Biden "stepped into the White House as a symbol of reliability and relatability—a woman fiercely protective of her family and her passions and ambitions," according to this amiable if unenlightening biography. Associated Press reporters Pace and Superville move briskly from Jill's childhood in 1950s and '60s New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where she was the eldest of five sisters, through her first marriage at age 19 and divorce four years later, to her 1975 first date with Delaware senator Joe Biden, whose wife and daughter had died in a car accident three years earlier, leaving him with two young sons, Beau and Hunter. After marrying Joe in 1977, Jill pursued master's and doctoral degrees while raising their daughter, Ashley, alongside Beau and Hunter, and taught in public high schools and community colleges. Pace and Superville draw a persuasive portrait of Jill Biden as a dedicated educator and protective wife and mother who "bemoans the corrosive nature of modern American politics, which has repeatedly put her family in the crosshairs," though their subject remains a somewhat guarded and elusive figure throughout. This well-mannered biography has few surprises.
Customer Reviews
Bidens are bad
China bad…hunter bad…Jill bad…