Jill
A Biography of the First Lady

I have been reading about the First Ladies for over twenty years, beginning when I was designing and researching to make my quilt Remember the Ladies, a Redwork quilt featuring the wives of the presidents. I have always felt sympathetic to the First Ladies. They are not elected. They have no job desc......more

Outside of what most of us know about Jill Biden, I felt I didn’t know much else and thought this new highly acclaimed biography would give me some insights. But most of the book rehashed what I already knew. To the authors’ credit, it stayed away from any controversy and was pretty much politically......more

A good biography of a prominent American. The tone and content of the book mirror the image of Jill they were portraying. There is some balance because she is shown as a true human. However, she does sound like a saint. I have had some teachers who felt that way to me, true mentors and moral teacher......more

Biographies are a favorite for me. Though I don’t support her in all of her politics, I admire her support of education, military families and her own family. Her priorities are centered. It has been a great experience watching her joy and enthusiasm in embracing the political role she has had to pl......more

Jill is a very different book from Biden’s 2019 memoir Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself (she narrates the audiobook). That was a very personal book, wrenching at times. The biography Jill by Julie Pace and Darlene Superville, is someone else’s observations of her, like t......more