107 Days
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4.2 • 313 Ratings
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Publisher Description
For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, former Vice President Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American history.
Your Secret Service code name is Pioneer.
You are the first woman in history to be elected vice president of the United States.
On July 21, 2024, your running mate, Joe Biden, announces that he will not be seeking reelection.
The presidential election will occur on November 5, 2024.
You have 107 days.
From the chaos of campaign strategy sessions to the intensity of debate prep under relentless scrutiny and the private moments that rarely make headlines, Kamala Harris offers an unfiltered look at the pressures, triumphs, and heartbreaks of a history-defining race. With behind-the-scenes details and a voice that is both intimate and urgent, this is more than a political memoir—it’s a chronicle of resilience, leadership, and the high stakes of democracy in action.
Written with candor, a unique perspective, and the pace of a page-turning novel, 107 Days takes you inside the race for the presidency as no one has ever done before.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"I knew I was the candidate in the strongest position to win," recollects former vice president Harris (The Truths We Hold) in this candid, blame-casting memoir of her failed 2024 presidential run. She opens with the surprise call from President Biden informing her he'd be dropping out, which not only disrupted "Sunday pancakes" with her grandnieces but also thrust her into "the shortest campaign in modern presidential history." Her day-by-day account of rallies, endorsements, TV appearances, podcasts, and ad buys amounts to a fairly sharp tell-all, with cringey moments including Biden's inopportune pre-debate call to relay that some Philadelphia bigwigs "were not going to support me because I'd been saying bad things about him" and Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro's overconfident conversation with her Naval Observatory residence manager about "how he might arrange to get Pennsylvania artists' work on loan" once he became vice president. She's especially forthcoming about her "complicated" relationship with Biden and his inner circle, who she feels didn't promote her. However, beyond brief moments of defensiveness on flashpoints like Gaza protesters ("Why weren't they protesting at Trump rallies?") and the frequency of Liz Cheney's stumping for her ("exaggerated" by the media), Harris sidesteps consideration of her own missteps, chalking her loss up to the lack of time to connect with voters. This rehash is rich in intraparty sniping, but short on campaign postmortem.
Customer Reviews
Honest and Beautiful
An honest and beautiful account of her experience! It was funny, thoughtful and sometimes raw. Loved it!
Great book
This was a great book and from a great person.
Incredible for numerous reasons!
This was a tough read for me personally, especially having finished this almost year to date where myself, my wife and our best friend had a FaceTime together to mourn the election. Where I was in the kitchen prepping a Cornish game hen because, “that’s what Kamala would want!”
It was later the next day, several shattered plates where smashed outside my patio out of how painful that election was. Where her campaign made me feel hope again, joy again. Only for that to look like the remains of plates and cups smashed outside.
But it was some days later, sweeping up those shattered hopes and dreams, trying to not think about the futures of my two nieces, did I find the courage to pick up that shattered bit of hope. Clutching it tight in my hand that it could figuratively bleed.
A year later, rewatching her concession speech in the background of progressive mayors and governors be elected, propositions to check unchecked balances. Glad I kept onto that hope because when we fight, we will win.
And this book has been an incredible reminder of that.