Overview
Kamala Harris es una mujer muy poco convencional, y su historia personal representa lo mejor de Estados Unidos. CreciĆ³ siendo la hija mayor de una madre soltera, una investigadora especializada en cĆ”ncer que emigrĆ³ de la India a los diecinueve aƱos en busca de una educaciĆ³n mejor. Se separĆ³ de su marido, un economista originario de Jamaica, cuando Kamala tenĆa cinco aƱos.
La Kamala Harris que la gente conoce es dura, inteligente, ingeniosa y exigente. Como fiscal, sus argumentos agudos son legendarios, pero se muestra mĆ”s reticente cuando tiene que hablar de sĆ misma, incluso en sus memorias. Afortunadamente, el reportero de Los Angeles Times Dan Morain ha estado siempre a su lado, desde el principio de su carrera profesional.
En Kamala Harris, Morain explica su carrera profesional desde sus inicios, trabajando en casos de abusos de menores y homicidios como fiscal de distrito del condado de Alameda y tambiĆ©n la relaciĆ³n que a los veintinueve aƱos mantuvo con Willie Brown, alcalde en aquella Ć©poca de la ciudad de San Francisco y el hombre mĆ”s poderoso del estado de California, una relaciĆ³n que durĆ³ cinco aƱos y que terminĆ³ cambiando por completo la vida de Kamala.
Morain lleva a los lectores a los aƱos en los que Kamala fue tambiĆ©n fiscal de distrito de San Francisco, relata sus primeros contactos con el aquel entonces muy poco conocido Barack Obama y detalla a la vez cĆ³mo se fue abriendo paso hasta convertirse en senadora de Estados Unidos.
Morain analiza tambiĆ©n su fracaso como candidata a la presidencia y la campaƱa que librĆ³ entre bambalinas para hacerse finalmente con la candidatura a la vicepresidencia. Este es un retrato muy fiel de sus valores y sus prioridades, del tipo de personas de las que se rodea, del tipo de problemas en los que se desenvuelve mejor y de los pasos en falso y los riesgos que ha tenido que asumir en su camino a la cima polĆtica de su paĆs.
Ā«Una biografĆa repleta de detalles. Kamala Harris omitiĆ³ muchos detalles eb su propia autobiografĆa. Dan Morain se ha encargado de llenar muchos de esos espacios en blanco.Ā» The Wall Street Journal
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of this countryās most effective power players.
Thereās very little thatās 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.
The Kamala Harris the public knows today is tough, smart, quick-witted, and demanding. Sheās a prosecutorāher one-liners are legendaryābut sheās more reticent when it comes to sharing much about herself, even in her memoirs. Fortunately, former Los Angeles Times reporter Dan Morain has been there from the start.
In Kamalaās Way, he charts her career from its beginnings handling child molestation cases and homicides for the Alameda County District Attorneyās 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 Harrisās years in the San Francisco District Attorneyās 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 vivid picture of her values and priorities, the kind of people she brings into her orbit, the sorts of problems sheās good at solving, and the missteps, risks, and bold moves sheās made on her way to the top.
Kamalaās Way is essential reading for all Americans curious about the woman standing by Joe Bidenās side.
This book title, Kamala Harris / Kamala's Way, ISBN: 9788418557255, by Dan Morain, Jorge Rizzo, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (April 15, 2021) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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