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    Hunter Biden's Memoir 'Beautiful Things' Seeks To Tell Just Where He's Been

    The account by the president's younger son is at times a harrowing journey; in the end, if not for forgiveness or sympathy, it may be about making a stand and taking whatever place he can occupy.
    by Ron Elving Mar 31, 2021 5 minutes
    <em>Beautiful Things: A Memoir,</em> by Hunter Biden

    When former President Donald Trump was still in office and holding rallies, he often shouted a question that provoked howls of raucous laughter from the crowd: "Where's Hunter?"

    Trump was referring derisively to Hunter Biden, the son of the man who is now President Biden. Beautiful Things: A Memoir is Hunter's answer to Trump's question. He wants to tell us where he is, where he has been, and what it has taken to get him from there to here.

    It is at times a harrowing journey. Readers who make it all the way through may feel they have completed something of a 12-step rehab program themselves. The details at times make one feel exposed to something like degradation porn.

    As has long been reported, the younger Biden

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