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There’s very little that’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. She’s a prosecutor—her one-liners are legendary—but she’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 Kamala’s Way, he charts her career from its beginnings handling child molestation cases and homicides for the Alameda County District Attorney’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 Harris’s years in the San Francisco District Attorney’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 vivid picture of her values and priorities, the kind of people she brings into her orbit, the sorts of problems she’s good at solving, and the missteps, risks, and bold moves she’s made on her way to the top.
Kamala’s Way is essential reading for all Americans curious about the woman standing by Joe Biden’s side.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781982175788 |
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Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date: | 01/12/2021 |
Sold by: | SIMON & SCHUSTER |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 272 |
File size: | 2 MB |
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Table of Contents
1 Shyamala's Daughter 1
2 That Little Girl 11
3 An Education, Apartheid, and a Slaughter 18
4 A Taste of Politics 27
5 Setting Her Sights 38
6 Becoming a Boldface 43
7 Severing Heads. Figuratively. 48
8 Officer Down 56
9 Getting "Smart" on Crime 62
10 Harris and Obama 67
11 The Mad Dash 70
12 Change Comes to California 80
13 Attorney General Harris 87
14 The Relic 94
15 Wedding Bells 100
16 The Damned Photos 108
17 Mortgage Meltdown 114
18 Phenomenal Women 121
19 "Just a Dude" 125
20 Woman in a Hurry 130
21 Joe Biden Gives Harris a Hand 134
22 Picking Her Shots 142
23 Fighting the Forever War 147
24 "Go Get 'Em" 154
25 "I Intend to Fight" 161
26 Stepping onto the National Stage 166
27 The Resistance 172
28 "I'm Asking the Questions" 181
29 "Yes or No" 186
30 Harris v. Kavanaugh 193
31 A Death in the Family 201
32 "For the People" 206
33 Timing Is Everything 211
34 Dancing in the Rain 218
Epilogue 227
Acknowledgments 241
Notes 243
Index 273