Kamala Harris’s story is inspiring, not just for the obvious reasons—multiracial daughter of immigrant parents, California Attorney General, 2nd Black women elected to the U.S. Senate—but mostly because of her intentionality: whatever issues Sen. Harris has taken on, she has done so for clear reasons that are spelled out in this book. As CA Attorney General, she saw her role as representing the people of her state, and one of the first issues she took on was truancy, because she recognized that without an education, kids were prey to drugs, crime, and poverty. I may not agree with her methods, but I better understand her deeply felt rationale and the breadth of her experiences makes me believe at least her solutions were well thought through. The last chapter outlining “What I’ve Learned” is worth the price of admission. I admire her intellectual power and her moral courage—demonstrated in her questioning of Brett Kavanagh and Gine Haspel—and her ultimate optimism. Our grandchildren will ask us “where we were when the stakes were so high,” she says. “I don’t want us to just tell them how we felt. I want us to tell them what we did.”