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Book SynopsisTimes book of the week'Dan Morain is a fair-minded biographer with enough access he is a veteran journalist who has worked for theLos Angeles TimesandTheSacramento Bee to make this more than a cuttings job. The Kamala Harris who emerges from these pages is accomplished and politically savvy, perhaps to a fault.' The TimesA revelatory biography of the first Black woman to be elected Vice President of the United States. InKamala's Way, longtimeLos Angeles Timesreporter Dan Morain charts how the daughter of two immigrants born in segregated California became one of this country's most effective power players. He takes readers through Harris's years in the San Francisco District Attorney's 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 analyses her failure as a presidential candidate and the behind-the-scenes campaign she waged to land the Vice President spot. And along the way, Morain paint