Kamala'S Way: An American Life - Paperback
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9761982175773
ISBN
9781982175771

Kamala'S Way: An American Life

$18.00
Author
Morain, Dan

A revelatory biography of the first Black woman elected Vice President of the United Statesā€”and in a history-making turn of events the Democratsā€™ 2024 Presidential nomineeā€”charting how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of this countryā€™s most effective power players.

Thereā€™s very little thatā€™s conventional about Kamala Harris, and yet her personal story also represents the best of America. She grew up the eldest daughter of a single mother, a no-nonsense cancer researcher who emigrated from India at the age of nineteen in search of a better education. She and her husband, an accomplished economist from Jamaica, split up when Kamala was only five.

The Kamala Harris the public knows today is tough, smart, quick-witted, and demanding. Sheā€™s a prosecutorā€”her one-liners are legendaryā€”but sheā€™s more reticent when it comes to sharing much about herself, even in her memoirs. Fortunately, former Los Angeles Times reporter Dan Morain has been there from the start.

In Kamalaā€™s Way, he ā€œoffers an essential roadmapā€ (Politico) to her career from its beginnings handling child molestation cases and homicides for the Alameda County District Attorneyā€™s office and her relationship as a twenty-nine-year-old with the most powerful man in the state: married Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, a relationship that would prove life-changing. Morain takes readers through Harrisā€™s years in the San Francisco District Attorneyā€™s Office, explores her audacious embrace of the little-known Barack Obama, and shows the sharp elbows she deployed to make it to the US Senate. He analyzes her failure as a presidential candidate and the behind-the-scenes campaign she waged to land the Vice President spot. Along the way, he paints a ā€œrevealing portraitā€ (The New York Times Book Review) of her values and priorities, the sorts of problems sheā€™s good at solving, and the missteps, risks, and bold moves sheā€™s made on her way to the top.

Kamalaā€™s Way is essential reading for all Americans curious about the woman standing by Joe Bidenā€™s side.

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