Former Vice President Joe Biden to speak at Riverside Theater Feb. 11

Former Vice President Joe Biden will speak Feb. 11 at Milwaukee's Riverside Theater as part of his book tour for "Promise Me, Dad," his memoir of a year that included the death of his son Beau. 

Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Dec. 22 for Biden's talk, which will be in conversation format with a moderator to be announced. (At other stops, such heavy hitters as Tom Brokaw, Atul Gawande, Melinda Gates, Stephen Colbert and Leslie Odom Jr. have  been moderators.)

Tickets will cost $72; a copy of Biden's book comes with the ticket. Visit pabsttheater.org/event/joebiden2018/ or call (414) 286-3663. The event begins at 7:30 p.m., with doors opening at 6:30 p.m.

In his review of the memoir in The Guardian, Charles Kaiser writes:

"Biden’s book describes a year of almost unbelievable sensory overload, when the vice-president was juggling frequent visits to the hospital to comfort his son with regular phone calls to the prime minister of Iraq and the president of the Ukraine, and a big initiative to stabilize Central America after thousands of children started to stream across the southern US border.

"Folded into all of this activity was Biden’s struggle to decide whether he would try to succeed Barack Obama, or leave the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders."