So Help Me God

Written by Mike Pence

Narrated by Mike Pence

The New York Times bestselling autobiography of former Vice President Mike Pence.

Loyalty is a Vice President’s first duty; but there is a greater one—to God and the Constitution.

Mike Pence spent more hours in the Oval Office than any of his predecessors. On the surface, the affable evangelical Christian from a gas-station-owning family in Indiana wouldn’t seem to have much in common with a brash real estate mogul from New York. But the unlikely duo formed a tight bond. Pence was at Donald Trump’s side when he enacted historic tax relief, when he decided to take more assertive stances toward China and North Korea, and when he appointed three Supreme Court justices. But the relationship broke down after the 2020 election. On January 6, 2021, as the president pressured him to overturn the election, a mob erected a gallows on Capitol Hill and its members chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” as they rampaged through the halls of Congress. The vice president refused to leave the Capitol, and once the riot was quelled, he reconvened Congress to complete the work of a peaceful transfer of power.

So Help Me God is the chronicle of the events and people who forged Mike Pence’s character and led him to that historic moment. His father, a Korean War combat veteran, was a formidable influence, but so was the Indiana history professor who inspired his devotion to the Constitution. And it was in college and law school that he embraced his Christian faith and met the love of his life, Karen—the two pillars that support him every day. You will read how his early political career was full of missteps that humbled him and how, as a talk radio host, Pence found his voice and the path that led him to Congress, the governor’s office in Indiana, and back to Washington as vice president.

This is the inside story of the Trump administration by its second highest official—what he said to the president and how he was tested. The relationship begins in Indiana, when Pence sees how Trump connects with working-class voters. After the election, the vice president comes to appreciate how Trump maintains that connection through unvarnished tweets and how his unorthodox style led to historic breakthroughs, from tax cuts to trade deals, from establishing the United States Space Force to the first new peace agreement in the Middle East in more than twenty-five years. This is the most robust defense of the Trump record of anyone who served in the administration.

But it is also about the private moments when Pence pushed back forcefully, how he navigated through the Mueller investigation, his damage control after Charlottesville, and his work on healing racial rifts after the murder of George Floyd. Pence was at the forefront when “history showed up” in the form of a devastating pandemic, and he provides a detailed account of leading the task force that circumvented bureaucracies to slow the disease in its tracks. Yes, it sometimes involved brokering peace between a president with an itchy Twitter finger and an agitated New York governor, but above all, it meant giving states and America’s eager entrepreneurs the power to come up with the solutions we needed. The result was the fastest development of life-saving vaccines in history.

In So Help Me God, Pence shows how the faith that he embraced as a young man guided his every decision. It is a faith that guided him on that historic day and that keeps him happily at peace, ready to accept the next challenge.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Nov 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781797153698

Mike Pence

Mike Pence served as the 48th Vice President of the United States (2017–2021), 50th Governor of Indiana (2013–2017), and as a member of the US House of Representatives (2001–2013).

Reviews for So Help Me God

[vladimiro sousa · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Some persons religion makes them better, bigger, special. Mr pence religion makes him smaller. He finds god in the smaller of coincidence, from the guy that tells him a story of a sound track he listen that day, to the arrive in a place in the same day someone else arrived there too 30 years before. God talks with this little man in the most absurd trivial boring details of life. He is quick to forgive the great sins of his political friends but resents without end the small sins of his political enemies. He a Bible picker, knowing only the psalms that are convenient to this XXI century, and forgetting the ones that are more suitable for the world of nomad peoples that live 3 thousand years ago. In all, he is a poster boy for a doublethink mentality! thank god for the beautiful of democracy that allow us to change the decision of having small mans in the second highest rank of power.

[Dana Campbell · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved all of the insights into his life, career and Vice Presidency. I love that he got the opportunity to tell his side of the story and for a glimpse at his deep faith. I’m inspired to live such a life!!

[Anonymous HTt44s · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great Book about a Good Man. A must read for everyone.

[Kathy Haley · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Thank you, Mr. Vice President, for sharing your story and your political experience. Thank you for your commitment to God and to the Constitution. Without the first, it is most difficult to achieve the second. This book gave me insights into the life of a politician, and especially that of our highest leaders, that I would not have had otherwise. May God raise up more faithful men of integrity to lead our nation.

[Rebecca Jaworski · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It was great. So refreshing to hear someone wanting to serve, depending upon the Lord, and giving God the glory for what was accomplished!

[caytlain hewitt · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I would give zero stars if I could. This guy is a liar and a traitor.

[Rebecka Vessey · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Excellent. It brought into focus the truth midst the drama and hype played on the evening news.

[AnnaBurns · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Excellent book and author and well ready by the Author

[Barry Newman · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Testify or be condemned to infamy! ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH?

[Stuart Murray · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

There is ZERO evidence his god exists. Stop trying to fool the American public. We all know your god is fake

[Ellen Wilts · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is a heartfelt book. I am not very political, so some parts were kind of deep for me. The ending brought tears to my eyes that Trump and Pence are no long friends. I strongl recommend this book.