Morain gives readers the public Harris on her own terms: a leader who rose to power in the crowded terrain of California politics.

As Dan Morain makes plain in this detailed and dutiful biography, Ms. Harris is notably less moderate (or, if you’d prefer, more progressive) than Mr. Biden—and so, naturally, a source of strength to voters on the left.

Kamala's Way isn't particularly revelatory, dryly detailing her early days in the Alameda County district attorney's office in California, as well as the political allies and adversaries she encountered during her rise. Although meticulously reported, it occasionally reads like a slapdash Wikipedia page rather than a compelling narrative. But after the circus of the outgoing presidential administration, there is a level of comfort reading an exhaustive account of a lawmaker just putting in the work. It isn't a mere puff piece either, as Morain rightfully holds Harris accountable for her past support of capital punishment and mass incarceration policies..

Dan Morain...doesn’t have any scoops in Kamala’s Way. He has done a workmanlike job of assessing her passions and her accomplishments. But often his best details are lifted directly from her own autobiography.

It’s a positive, supportive, slightly happy-clappy take on the incoming vice-president, but in these dismal times who’s arguing with that? Dan Morain is a fair-minded biographer with enough access...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.

[Morain's] insider’s view provides a revealing portrait of the people and events surrounding Harris’s rise to political stardom.

... well-informed yet somewhat impersonal look at Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s journey to the White House.

... an admiring, yet balanced, biography.