WilmU Book Club
February 2021 | The Truths We Hold & A Promised Land
Date/Time:
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
12:00pm ET
Location:
Please join the WilmU Book Club for an online discussion of TWO books; The Truths We Hold by Vice President Kamala Harris and A Promised Land by Former President Barack Obama.
Students, Faculty, Alumni, and Staff are all welcome!
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ABOUT THE BOOKS
The Truths We Hold
From Vice President Kamala Harris, one of America’s most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.
Harris’s commitment to speaking truth is informed by her upbringing. The daughter of immigrants, she was raised in an Oakland, California community that cared deeply about social justice; her parents–an esteemed economist from Jamaica and an admired cancer researcher from India–met as activists in the civil rights movement when they were graduate students at Berkeley. Growing up, Harris herself never hid her passion for justice, and when she became a prosecutor out of law school, a deputy district attorney, she quickly established herself as one of the most innovative change agents in American law enforcement.
A Promised Land
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from a young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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