Vice President Kamala Harris: Her Path to the White House

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The first fully illustrated book on Kamala Harriss life and work, a retrospective that celebrates and honorsher barrier-breaking achievements.

When Kamala Harrisbecame vice president of the United States, she made history as the first woman, first Black person, first South Asian American, and first Caribbean American to hold the office. This stunning book covers Harriss life from her childhood in Berkeley to her Howard College years, charting the many firsts she has carried with her throughout her legal and senatorial careers. It also explores Harriss presidential campaign, her family (her husband, Doug Emhoff, is the first Second Gentleman and the first Jewish vice presidential spouse), the inauguration and her first months in the White House, and includes sidebars giving historical context to Black and female representation in government. Harriss inspiring journey is brought to life with 120 photographs, quotes, highlights from notable speeches, and insightful commentary from Malaika Adero.

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Malaika Adero, former VP and Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster, is the author of A Black Woman Did That: 42 Boundary-Breaking, Bar-Raising, World-Changing Women (Downtown Bookworks/S&S) and Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of This Century's African American Migrations (New Press), and coauthor of The Mother of Black Hollywoodwith Jenifer Lewis (Amistad) and Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (Doubleday). At her company, Adero's Literary Tribe, she works with individuals and corporations as an editor and writer; see https: //aderostribe.wordpress.com/.