Kamala's Way

<b>A revelatory biography of the first Black woman elected Vice President of the United States--and in a history-making turn of events the Democrats' 2024 Presidential</b> <b>nominee--charting how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of this country's most effective power players.</b> <p/>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. <p/>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 <i>Los Angeles Times</i> reporter Dan Morain has been there from the start. <p/>In <i>Kamala's Way</i> he offers an essential roadmap (<i>Politico</i>) to 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 revealing portrait (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>) of her values and priorities 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. <p/><i>Kamala's Way</i> is essential reading for all Americans curious about the woman standing by Joe Biden's side.