Kamala Harris paperback brought forward by Vintage

Vintage is bringing forward the paperback publication of Kamala Harris memoir The Truths We Hold: An American Journey after she became vice-president-elect of the US earlier this month.

Originally published in hardback by The Bodley Head in January 2019, the book will be released in paperback by Vintage on 26th November 2020 following her historic win. It was originally due for release in January 2021.

The book tells the story of Harris’ background and upbringing, her career, her worldview and her resistance to the politics of President Donald Trump’s America. UK & Commonwealth rights were acquired from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein on behalf of CAA.

Its synopsis says: “The daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris was raised in a California community that cared deeply about social justice. As she rose to prominence as a political leader, 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, Harris 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.”

Harris is the first woman and woman of colour to be elected vice-president, a lifelong public safety and civil rights leader, who served until recently as a US senator from California. She began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, then was elected District Attorney of San Francisco. As California's Attorney General, she prosecuted transnational gangs, big banks, Big Oil, for-profit colleges and fought against attacks on the Affordable Care Act. She also fought to reduce elementary school truancy, pioneered the nation's first open data initiative to expose racial disparities in the criminal justice system and implemented implicit bias training for police officers.