'The Truths We Hold: An American Journey' is the memoir of:

"The Truths We Hold: An American Journey" is the memoir of Kamala Harris, published in January 2019, shortly before she launched her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

About the book:

It describes her childhood in Oakland and Berkeley, California, as the daughter of immigrants: her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a breast cancer scientist from Chennai, India, and her father, Donald Harris, an economist from Jamaica.

It describes the influence of her mother and of her grandfather, P. V. Gopalan, a civil servant in India.

It covers her career as a prosecutor, as District Attorney of San Francisco, as Attorney General of California, and as a US Senator from California (from 2017).

It sets out her views on justice, immigration, health care and other issues.

The title comes from the opening words of the US Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident..."

About Kamala Harris:

• She was born on 20 October 1964 in Oakland, California.
• She studied at Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

She was the 49th Vice-President of the United States (January 2021 to January 2025), under President Joe Biden. She was the first woman, the first African-American and the first South Asian American to hold the office.

In 2024, she became the Democratic Party's presidential candidate after Joe Biden withdrew, but she lost the election to Donald Trump.

Memoirs of other American women politicians:

• Hillary Clinton: "Living History", "Hard Choices", "What Happened".
• Michelle Obama: "Becoming".
• Nikki Haley (of Indian origin, former Governor of South Carolina and US Ambassador to the UN): "Can't Is Not an Option" and "With All Due Respect".

Why not the other options?

• ✗Nikki Haley wrote "Can't Is Not an Option".
• ✗Hillary Clinton wrote "Living History".
• ✗Michelle Obama wrote "Becoming".