The way I remember it, Biden was first elected while the Vietnam War was going on, and we were still sending astronauts to the moon.
Mobster tell-all books have never withstood the march of time. Probably pertains to the fact that they're anti-social pathological liars. If memory serves, the house where Hoffa was supposedly killed turned out to have evidence of a murder, but the evidence showed that it wasn't Hoffa's.
Sez here, "Joe Biden began his political career at the age of 27. He won a seat on the New Castle County, Del., council in 1970."