Biden Plans Nov. 17 Memoir Tour as Stage 4 Cancer Narrows His Post-White House Life
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Updated · The Washington Post · Jul 26
Biden Plans Nov. 17 Memoir Tour as Stage 4 Cancer Narrows His Post-White House Life
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Jul 26
Summary
Nov. 17 is the publication date for Joe Biden’s memoir, a rollout that will force a more public test of his health as the 83-year-old undergoes treatment for metastatic prostate cancer.
May 2025 brought Biden’s diagnosis with an aggressive prostate cancer that had spread to his bones; aides and family say treatment is working, but the disease and therapy have left him visibly frail and his schedule tightly constrained.
That return to view worries some Democrats, who fear Biden’s appearance could reopen the 2024 age-and-acuity fight just as they try to focus the midterms on President Donald Trump.
Tuesday, a federal appeals court cleared the way for the Heritage Foundation to obtain redacted transcripts and audio used by a special prosecutor to depict Biden as an elderly man with a poor memory, adding to pressure around the memoir tour.
Biden’s illness has also limited his post-presidential reach: he has kept a sparse public schedule, built no major policy platform and struggled to raise money for a Delaware presidential library, with about $11 million expected by end-2027.