**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.**  

Join Dan Morain, author of the new biography, Kamala's Way: An American Life, for a discussion of America's new Vice President, Kamala Harris. During his time as a reporter with the Los Angeles Times and editorial editor with the Sacramento Bee, Morain covered Kamala Harris's rise to power as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County to District Attorney to California Attorney General to U.S. Senator to the first Black, South Asian, and female Vice President in our country's history. Learn how the daughter of two immigrants of color in segregated California became one of America's most effective power players. Morain will be joined in conversation by Liz Goodwin, deputy bureau chief for The Boston Globe in Washington, DC.

About Kamala's Way: The Kamala Harris the public knows today is tough, smart, quick-witted, and demanding. She’s a prosecutor—her one-liners are legendary—but she’s more reticent when it comes to sharing much about herself, even in her memoirs. Fortunately, longtime Los Angeles Times reporter and Sacramento Bee editorial editor Dan Morain has been there from the start, having first written about her in 1994. In Kamala’s Way, we see the forces that shape her from early days in Oakland and Berkeley, to Montreal where she attended high school, through college and law school, and through her rise in politics. Along the way, he paints a vivid picture of her values and priorities, the kind of people she brings into her orbit (but also drops from it). He covers the key relationships in her rise to power, such as those with California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, Delaware attorney general Beau Biden, California Senator Diane Feinstein, and her audacious embrace of the once little-known Barack Obama. He also shows the problems she’s good at solving, along with the missteps, risks, and bold moves she’s made on her way to the top. 

How To Buy A Copy Of The Book: Autographed copies of Kamala's Way will be available for sale before and during the event from our bookstore partner -- Wellesley Books. Click HERE to order. 10% of the proceeds from your sale will be donated to the host library of your choice.

About Dan: Dan Morain has covered California policy, politics, and justice-related issues for more than four decades, including twenty-seven years at The Los Angeles Times and eight at The Sacramento Bee, where he was editorial page editor.

About Liz: Liz Goodwin is the deputy bureau chief for The Boston Globe in Washington, and covers national politics. She's written from the U.S.-Mexico border about the Trump administration's family separation policy, from the U.K. on President Trump's influence on the country's nationalists, and from the campaign trail over three presidential elections. She and her colleagues won the 2020 Toner Prize for Excellence in National Political Reporting for their series on battleground states. Liz grew up in Galveston, Texas, and worked for Yahoo News and the Daily Beast in New York before joining the Globe.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tewksbury Public Library. Presented in collaboration with Libraries Working Towards Social Justice and the State Library of Massachusetts.