Inhalt: Die Autobiographie der neuen US-Vizepräsidentin: ein inspirierendes und zutiefst persönliches Buch darüber, welche Werte uns verbinden »Unsere größten Probleme können wir nur bewältigen, wenn wir ehrlich mit ihnen umgehen. Wenn wir bereit sind, schwierige Gespräche zu führen, wenn wir den Tatsachen ins Auge sehen. Wir müssen die Wahrheit aussprechen.« Kamala Harris
Sie ist die erste Frau und erste Schwarze als Vizepräsidentin der USA. Kamala Harris hat das Amt in jenem historischen Moment übernommen, in dem die Vereinigten Staaten gespalten sind wie nie zuvor. Wer ist diese Frau, die die Zukunft der USA mitprägen wird? Was treibt sie an?
In diesem Buch erzählt Kamala Harris die Geschichte ihres unwahrscheinlichen Lebenswegs als Tochter einer indischen Einwanderin und eines Jamaikaners, die sich zur Justizministerin Kaliforniens hocharbeitete - und schon als Staatsanwältin dem Ziel sozialer Gerechtigkeit verschrieb. Während der Immobilienkrise nahm sie den Kampf mit Banken und Big Business auf, um die einfachen Bürger zu schützen, sie bekämpfte den Rassismus in der Strafverfolgung und trieb konsequent eine Reform des Justizwesens voran. Ihre Lebensgeschichte, das sie in diesem Buch so eindringlich schildert, ruft immer wieder die grundlegenden Werte von Freiheit, Toleranz und Gerechtigkeit in Erinnerung, die heute so sehr in Gefahr geraten sind. Das beeindruckende Zeugnis einer klugen und charismatischen Politikerin - und die bewegende Geschichte einer Frau, auf deren Schultern die Hoffnung einer ganzen Nation ruhen.
From Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country
Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth is informed by her upbringing. The daughter of immigrants, she was raised in an Oakland, California community that cared deeply about social justice; her parents--an esteemed economist from Jamaica and an admired cancer researcher from India--met as activists in the civil rights movement when they were graduate students at Berkeley. Growing up, Harris herself never hid her passion for justice, and when she became a prosecutor out of law school, a deputy district attorney, she quickly established herself as one of the most innovative change agents in American law enforcement. She progressed rapidly to become the elected District Attorney for San Francisco, and then the chief law enforcement officer of the state of California as a whole. Known for bringing a voice to the voiceless, she took on the big banks during the foreclosure crisis, winning a historic settlement for California's working families. Her hallmarks were applying a holistic, data-driven approach to many of California's thorniest issues, always eschewing stale "tough on crime" rhetoric as presenting a series of false choices. Neither "tough" nor "soft" but smart on crime became her mantra. Being smart means learning the truths that can make us better as a community, and supporting those truths with all our might. That has been the pole star that guided Harris to a transformational career as California's attorney general, as a United States senator, and now as vice president-elect, grappling in every role with an array of complex issues, from health care and the new economy to immigration, national security, the opioid crisis, and accelerating inequality.
By reckoning 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, Kamala Harris offers in THE TRUTHS WE HOLD a master class in problem solving, in crisis management, and leadership in challenging times. Through the arc of her own life, on into the great work of our day, she communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values. In a book rich in many home truths, not least is that a relatively small number of people work very hard to convince a great many of us that we have less in common than we actually do, but it falls to us to look past them and get on with the good work of living our common truth. When we do, our shared effort will continue to sustain us and this great nation, now and in the years to come.
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