The Truths We Hold

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Kamala Harris

The #1 New York Times bestsellerFrom Vice President Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders, comes a book about the core truths that unite us and how best to act upon them. "A life story that genuinely entrances." —Los Angeles Times“An engaging read that provides insights into the influences of [Harris’s] life...Revealing and even endearing.” —San Francisco ChronicleThe daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice President Kamala Harris was raised in an Oakland, California, community that cared deeply about social justice. As she rose to prominence as one of the political leaders of our time, her experiences would become her guiding light as she grappled with an array of complex issues and learned to bring a voice to the voiceless. In The Truths We Hold, she reckons with the big challenges we face together. Drawing on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her, she communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values as we confront the great work of our day.

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Author

Kamala Harris

Pages

336

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

2019-01-08

ISBN

0525560718 9780525560715

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"Kamala Harris poignantly addresses the struggles we face as a society today - in detail - but she also presents a way forward. Going into any politician’s memoir - I am skeptical of the intentions and convictions of the writer. Do they truly mean what they are saying? Or is it a re-election ploy to try to score up support from on the fence voters? Not so with The Truths We Hold. Vice President Harris gives me hope because she sees the issues we face, fully, in all their brutal reality, and does not succumb to despair. She sees a way out and acts on it. She is a person of great integrity. I found myself crying about every two minutes. Breaking out with a hopeless sob of despair. It was ugly. I have succumbed to pessimism and doom. I feel powerless, daily, by the minute. So much so that I’ve started to tuning out the suffering to preserve my own sanity. What’s the point of seeing suffering, of acknowledging it if you can’t do anything about it? Yet Harris would describe the event from start to finish - every ounce of individual suffering caused by systemic, communal problems. …And then Kamala would raise her torch and present a way forward, a hope. That may sound cliche, but I have never felt so uplifted and empowered, politically, to make a difference in my community, and act to solve the issues I care about. I found myself brimming with ideas for small ways that could lead to larger changes in my own life and in my community. Thank you for re-lighting my torch."

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Abigail Spradlin

"It’s the best biography I’ve personally every read! Really inspired me"