Hunter Biden’s media blitz in support of his new personal memoir, Beautiful Things, appears to have not been enough to help the book blow out the sales list.
The book by the 51-year-old son of President Joe Biden, published on April 6, sold 10,638 copies in its first week, according to Publisher’s Weekly’s sales list, putting it at No. 12 in the list of top U.S. hardcover nonfiction sales.
As of Thursday evening, it sat at No. 208 on Amazon’s “Best Sellers” list and No. 4 on the New York Times bestsellers list for “Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction.”
The book is Biden’s account of his life, detailing everything from his response to the death of his brother, Beau, to his second marriage and experiences with drug use.
“After Beau died, I never felt more alone. I lost hope,” he wrote, detailing elsewhere how his three daughters and two counselors from a Pennsylvania rehabilitation center, where he was once a patient, had staged an intervention over his addiction.
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Biden’s promo rounds for the book, which put him in front of numerous television audiences, have themselves been newsmakers.
In an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning, Biden said he didn’t know whether the laptop that is believed to be part of a Justice Department investigation into his tax affairs is really his or not.
“For real, I don’t know. I really don’t know what the answer is,” Biden said. “That’s the truthful answer.”
In a separate interview, when Anthony Mason of CBS This Morning asked him about the laptop, Biden said, “Well, it’s — you don’t need a laptop. You’ve got a book. The book — it’s all in the book. And I don’t know.”
The book mentioned the laptop only once, in a passage written as a letter to his brother, saying, “Your strength and love was embodied in the strength and love that surrounded me. That was never truer than when Giuliani, Bannon, and their collaborators purported to have a laptop that chronicled the lurid details of my descent into addiction the last three years.”
The younger Biden was himself a focal point during the 2020 presidential campaign, even before the laptop story broke, as former President Donald Trump and other Republicans insisted that he unethically benefited in his business dealings because of his father’s status in Washington.
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“I became a proxy for Donald Trump’s fear that he wouldn’t be reelected,” Biden said in his new book. “He pushed debunked conspiracy theories about work I did in Ukraine and China.”
Of his son’s memoir, the president said in February, “The honesty with which he stepped forward and talked about the problem and the hope that — it gave me hope reading it,” continuing, “I mean, it was like, ‘My boy’s back.’ You know what I mean?”
