107 giorni

by Kamala Harris

107 giorni è il racconto senza filtri di Kamala Harris su uno dei momenti più intensi della storia politica americana. Quando il presidente in carica Joe Biden annuncia il suo ritiro dalla corsa per la rielezione, alla vicepresidente Harris restano appena 107 giorni per affrontare una delle campagne elettorali più frenetiche e sotto pressione di sempre. Con onestà e senso critico, Harris ci conduce dietro le quinte della sua candidatura alla le strategie, i confronti serrati, le pressioni implacabili, le ostilità dentro e fuori dal partito democratico, ma anche le speranze e le battaglie personali che hanno segnato questo percorso. Un memoir intenso che si legge come un thriller politico, 107 giorni è una testimonianza diretta sulle sfide della leadership all’interno della democrazia americana. Un libro per chi vuole capire davvero cosa accade nei momenti in cui la storia bussa alla porta – e non c’è tempo da perdere. “Si legge come una bomba a orologeria. Ogni capitolo è un conto alla rovescia fino al giorno delle elezioni, con il tono di chi ha smesso di tenersi tutto dentro.” Associated Press

Genres: Nonfiction, Audiobook, Memoir, Politics, History, Biography, Autobiography

438 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 23, 2025

About the author

Kamala Devi Harris (born Kamala Iyer Harris) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021, under President Joe Biden. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as a U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021 and the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017. Harris is the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2024 presidential election.

Born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She began her law career in the office of the district attorney (DA) of Alameda County, before being recruited to the San Francisco DA's Office and later the city attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2003, she was elected DA of San Francisco. She was elected attorney general of California in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. Harris served as the junior U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021; she defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to become the second African-American woman and the first South Asian American to serve in the U.S. Senate.

As a senator, Harris advocated for strict gun control laws, the DREAM Act, and federal legalization of cannabis, as well as healthcare and taxation reform. She gained a national profile for her pointed questioning of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings, including Trump's second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.

Harris sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, but withdrew from the race before the primaries. Biden selected her to be his running mate, and their ticket went on to defeat the incumbent president and vice president, Donald Trump and Mike Pence, in the 2020 election. Harris and Biden were inaugurated on January 20, 2021. After Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election, Harris launched her own presidential campaign with Biden's endorsement. On July 22, 2024, Harris secured enough non-binding support from delegates to become the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party.

Reviews

[Rebekah Marshall · Rating 5 out of 5]

OH WHAT WE COULD HAVE HAD

[Traci Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a bit of a rorschach test for the reader. If you want to hate Harris you can find reasons to do so, if you want to be sympathetic to her you can do that too. You liking the book depends more on you than it does on the book.
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That being said, as far as the book goes, 107 DAYS does exactly what you want a political postmortem to do, and maybe even a little more. The 107 day construct, each chapter is a day (a few days are skipped), works really well. It keeps the pace moving. We get some very short chapters and some that dig into bigger moments from the campaign. It’s smart and works well. As far as content she’s spilling a little tea on her allies and her opponents. There is self-reflection. Not enough for my taste, but she does admit to regrets and mistakes. Most politicians don’t do that, so I give her credit there. The book is short. It moves fast. I liked it generally for what it is. It is not the best book ever written, but it does what it set out to do.

[Carmel Hanes · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had mixed feelings about reading this book. Not because I have mixed feelings about Harris, but because the gut-punch from her loss still stings to this day, especially when the news is a constant removal of a barely formed and tentative scab. I wasn't sure I could handle reliving the trauma of the last election and the outcome.

But, just like her speeches and on-screen persona, just like my sense of her being a breath of fresh air, just like my tendency to cling to the belief that there are still good people in the world who want to enter politics, this read buoyed me once again. I remembered many of the moments she speaks of, and appreciated hearing about those that occurred behind the scenes. I listened on audio, and hearing her voice again reminded me of that beckoning hope, that obtainable joy, that bubble of possibility we briefly lived. I do wonder what might have happened if she had had more than 107 days to mount a campaign, one not tinged with the irregularities that played out when Biden reversed course. I do wonder what might have happened if our media did a better job of reporting facts and providing information rather than developing manipulative narratives.

If you already don't like her, this likely won't change your mind. If you do like her, this will probably solidify that. If you are on the fence or don't know her well, this might give you more information about who she is and what matters to her. And it might also educate you as to the difficulty, danger, behind-the-scenes work, and fickle nature of being part of the political world. It's not a world I would ever want to live within, but thank those who are willing to try.

[Tim Null · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kamala Harris tells us that when we fight, we win, but sometimes, the fight takes a while. We must play the long game.

[willa]

i love u kamala… u could’ve been our first female president instead we’re on the human rights watchlist 💔💔

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent!!
Also maddening!
Oh, what we could have had…
a person with experience, education, intelligence,
compassion, and who can actually articulate masterfully.
I have so much respect for this woman, and everything she warned us about has happened.
I listened to the audio, narrated by Kamala.

[Jess Owens]

You would think I didn’t know the outcome because why am I fighting tears at the gym when she read the election results? 😞😩😫😭

[Delaney]

HIGHLY recommend!!! So interesting & so hopeful.

[Terri · Rating 5 out of 5]

UPDATED! SEE BELOW!!!!

Not yet released so who gave it one star? Personally, I can’t wait to read this!!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

UPDATE: I finished this last night and it was SO good. I actually cried at the end even though I knew the outcome. So many people complained about Kamala throwing Joe under the bus but she really didn’t. She was simply honest about what went down knowing Joe had said at the beginning of his term he would not run again. He waited too long to back out. IMHO anyway. If he had said much earlier he wasn’t going to run he wouldn’t have had that disastrous debate with the felon. AND she would have had more time! Anyway, I highly recommend. And one thing Kamala said that broke my heart when she realized she wasn’t going to win: “Oh my God. What is going to happen to our country?” 💔💔💔😢😢😢
She said it a few times because she was in disbelief. And here we are..watching our country burn… I’m still giving it 5 stars! ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Meike · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this one up because I was interested in the inner workings of the Democratic party before the last election: It should be an uncontroversial opinion that they fucked up very bad, and to analyze the multiple shortcomings would be the first necessary step to re-establishing order, first inside the organization, then, hopefully, in the country as a whole. I, for once, never had any strong feelings towards Kamala (although if I was allowed vote in the US, there would have been no question: I would have chosen her), and this book really made me feel for her: I believe all of what she says regarding the old and not-so-old men cockblocking her in her ambition, because how dare a woman strive for power, and I also believe that in many, many cases, getting things done was secondary in the game of power politics (which is why some people turn away from politics). That's sexist, and it's infuriating.

BUT there are two aspects that bothered me considerably: Kamala always argues for herself and from her POV, but she's just a player in a party, and the whole party failed - she could provide insight into how this came about, and that would be instructive, not only the shortcomings of one Kamala (or Joe, for that matter). How come a large party fails to stop Joe Biden from running straight into the chainsaw by clinging to his candidacy, thus harming the party and his own (otherwise impressive!) legacy? How come Kamala talks about rallies and personal talks and good intentions and all the things she and Joe have achieved, but fails to analyze why people turn away from her party, how economic aspects and questions of wealth disparity have driven them into the arms of a wannabe dictator? Well, her political career would probably be over if she thoroughly critiqued her party in public (that's not a Democrat thing, that's a parties in general thing). Which is fucked up, and keeps the vicious cycle running.

And while, as stated, the book really made me believe that Kamala is a decent, hard-working person, I was rather pissed for Pete Buttigieg and Tim Walz: I really like both of these guys, and I believe that the cowardice of wanting to pick Pete, but then not choosing him because he's gay and Kamala is already of Indian-Jamaican heritage and *gasp* a woman, so people will probably be way to backwards to support the ticket, that very cowardice is part of the problem. People are less stupid than some might think, and saying: "Here, I chose Pete because in my opinion, he is the best, so deal with it" would have been the badass thing to do. Posing as a badass is all Trump did, and it was enough. The Democrats, on the other hand, appeared afraid, and that's a deadly sin in politics. This revelation that she actually wanted Pete also seems unfair to Tim Walz - don't fuck with Minnesota, Kamala! (It's the best state, now you deal with it.)

So overall, this was pretty interesting, but as in the case of many political memoirs, it could have been so much more.

[Candy Buck · Rating 1 out of 5]

She could have had 1,007 days and it still wouldn't have worked. She is just not capable of any office. About time she bowed out.

[Jocelyn Allen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book made me like Kamala Harris less, not more. I went in genuinely wanting it to strengthen my opinion of her, to give me reasons to respect her decisions and her as a person. Instead, while it is well-written and easy to read, it never became compelling. Unlike other memoirs I’ve read (where I walked away with respect for the author even if I disagreed with them), this one left me with disappointment and pity.

Harris attempts to portray herself as strong, accomplished, and rooted in a family of doers, but the narrative often reveals the opposite. She comes across as indecisive, prone to shifting blame, and unclear in her choices. Even her most significant decisions, such as selecting a vice president, seem poorly explained. Her frequent mentions of supporting Joe Biden read less as loyalty and more like quiet criticism.

Ultimately, the book doesn’t read like a leader casting a vision for the future. It feels more like an attempt to reframe events and get the last word. I wanted this memoir to strengthen my opinion of her, but it left me with sympathy and pity, rather than respect or confidence in her ability to lead.

[Shaye ♪ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book deserves 5 stars because one the stupid orange didn't write it and two Kamala Harris wrote it

I promise to read it once it comes out

[Dee (on Hiatus) · Rating 5 out of 5]

An incredible memoir of an amazing woman's historic run for our highest office. Very honest and it ends positively - she truly is a "joyful warrior" and she should be in the Oval right now instead of whatever that thing is....

[Maren’s Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

I may have shed a few tears. I feel sad and so bummed out now but this was very well written and does provide good insights into an unprecedented 107 day campaign. I have to say, reading books about political campaigns further instills in me that I have zero desire to put myself through the intense scrutiny, melodrama, backlash and death threats that politicians in the 21st century are often faced with.

I highly recommend reading via audio as it is narrated by the author herself and I think it helps to hear her story in her own words.

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Reading Notes:

70% Update: came for the tea, need the antidepressants 🥴

I need ALL THE 🫖 Also, I’m so thankful I don’t work in politics. I would not survive.

[Amiee · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a hard listen and of course hindsight….

We shouldn’t be here but we are. Sigh.

If you like Kamala, you will still love her and feel the sadness and dread as we count down to Election Day. You also will side eye a lot of Dem leadership for being shortsighted but most importantly you will hate those that encouraged people to stay home on 11/4.

[Lindsay · Rating 5 out of 5]

Honest and self-reflective. I’m going to go cry now.

[Louis Lebel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Falls a bit flat. lots of interesting insight on the 2024 campaign but often reads as airing of grievances with Democrats and others (Biden, Walz, Shapiro, etc) and not a lot of taking accountability. Kind of a "I did most things right and would have won if others had done better"

[Nate · Rating 1 out of 5]

Absolutely awful drivel spun up by a mentally challenged person who is struggling to come to terms with her own insufficiencies. I tried to read through the whole piece, but uncontrollably began spasming every time I started another page. Not wishing to ruin the day for my family members by forcing them to take me to the hospital, I closed the book and swore off ever believing anything the author says ever again, and promising to never subject myself to the multifarious ways in which voluntarily consuming this waste of ink has compromised my well-being. I’m still recovering at this point, and it will be a long process, but at least the healing has begun.

[Summer · Rating 5 out of 5]

No matter what political party they are affiliated with women in government and in leadership positions have always fascinated and inspired me. In 107 Days, we get a behind-the-scenes look at a former vice president, running for the office of the presidency.

107 Days goes into so much that it makes it difficult to review without giving anything away or spoiling it for future readers, so I’ll be brief.

107 Days is Kamala at her most candid and vulnerable self. I loved learning more about her as a person, stepmother, wife, and all the other roles she plays. I enjoyed the behind-the-scenes glimpse of Kamal’s relationship with President Biden, her thought process of choosing a running mate, and how she handled all of the personal attacks. Kamala also discusses all of the things she believes that lost her the 2024 presidency as well as her regrets.

I listened to the audiobook of 107 Days which is read by Kamala herself. If you do decide to pick this one up, I highly recommend this format!

107 Days by Kamala Harris was published on September 23 so it's available now. Many thanks to Simon Audio for the gifted audiobook!

[Janaea · Rating 5 out of 5]

just like everyone else I have also read the book before it's release and it's amazing

[CoachJim · Rating 5 out of 5]

107 Days by Kamala Harris is a post-mortem of the 2024 presidential campaign and election. Mainly it is an account of the day-by-day campaigning of Harris, but with some political commentary about the lies and nonsense of Trump, and the failures and hypocrisy of the Republican Party. It is a very sad read.

Surrounding the publication of this book last week there was a lot of negative media about Harris and her campaign. She did not write this book as an excuse for her loss. She does mention the fact it was a short time period for her to introduce herself and get her message out to people, but that’s a fact not an excuse.

She spent time at her rallies to praise Biden and their accomplishments. Given the publicity generated by Jake Tapper’s recent book, Original Sin , there are concerns that Harris did not do more to talk about his alleged problems. She does address that issue. At one point she states that Biden on his worse day was more qualified, had more integrity and compassion than Trump has on his best day. Admittedly that is a pretty low bar, but it does say something about the decision most of our fellow Americans made on election day.

The last several chapters in this book cover the last week of the campaign and reading them was exhausting. It was also painful to have to relive election day. In the afterword chapter Harris gives a vision of what needs to be done. Now it is time to figure out what we will do about it.

[jolie · Rating 5 out of 5]

We [democrats and republicans] share more than we realize. We just have to be willing to look for it and see it.

My task was to show everyone, especially the young people, that as hurt and traumatized as we felt, we would not retreat from the fight.
It might take a while.
But the fight for our country is always worth it.
And we will win.

this is such an important and necessary read. i feel that everyone should read this at least once in their lifetime. i loved being able to immerse myself in her thoughts through this book. although i have lived through watching the presidential election last year, it is a whole other experience to be able to read about it through her eyes. i truly believe she was let down by the world. i still am in disbelief at how we could’ve had this resilient and loving person as our president and instead chose a 34 count felon. it absolutely baffles me that people can be so ignorant and allow such corrupt people to run our lives.

this book not only talks about the prejudices that she, and many women today, face, but also the fact that we are still not taken seriously. something that men can do once to be taken seriously requires twice the amount of effort from us. why have we come to a point where men are still threatened by us and we are put below them simply because the system has failed us many times? the question of our basic civil rights has been tested, and is still going to happen as long as trump is still president.

this book was transparent, and it was frustrating at times. the system failed kamala so many times, and often, with no explanation. she had to keep pushing forward, and for that she is such a strong and resilient person. kamala is such a perfectly flawed person. someone who makes mistakes, but has enough self-awareness to acknowledge this and strive to be a better person. that is, in my opinion, what everyone should strive to be. she is such a smart leader and compassionate leader in the way she attempts to hear everyone out and come up with strategies to combat the problems. she was able to persist and show kindness to everyone, even those who wronged her. she truly has the capabilities to be a great president, because she not only fought for the people who supported her, but even those who hated on her. she saw everyone as americans, and i think that is the most important part.

spoiler here !

throughout this book, i had such mixed feelings for joe biden. although he endorsed kamala and praised her, i feel like she was let down by him so many times. he sabotaged her election in many different ways, and at times, it didn’t even seem he was on her side. this book has totally changed my perception on him. kamala was so hurt over the things he did but she continued to persist and show her loyalty and devotion to him.

reading updates

update 1 — 15%: kamala and her husband are so cute stop it 🥹🥹 i’m loving this book so far. it’s so intriguing and tickles my brain!

update 2 — 25%:

She asked her second question: Republicans had said I was a DEI hire. Did he think I was only on the ticket because I was a Black woman?
He replied that he had always thought I was Indian. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black.”

i’m crying trump is probably the stupidest person ever. i grieve everyday for what we could’ve had instead of this small-brained man (if we can even call him that)

update 3 — 50%

And then I glanced across to the far side of the room, where Joe was sharing a joke with some guys in MAGA hats. One of them took his hat off and offered it to Joe.
Don’t take it.
He took it.
Don’t put it on.
He put it on.

this is messed up in so many ways. my heart hurts for kamala and all the injustice she faces trying to make changes in the world.

pre-read!

i finally got one of my guy friends (who doesn’t read at all mind you) to read a book w me! i’m gen so ready to read this

[T x · Rating 1 out of 5]

For context, I voted for Kamala in 2024.

This book is downright atrocious, and I spent the last two days hate reading it for the purpose of writing this.

From the outside, it's easy to look at political gaffes and think "Sure, that seems bad, but these are the best, most qualified people, right? Surely they must be working magic behind the scenes and we'll all be fine."

Nope. I felt overqualified reading this book as someone who spends an above average amount of time reading politics news. The book reveals nothing but how shallow the campaign really was.

In it, Harris seems to have absolutely zero interest in taking responsibility for losing the 2024 election in any capacity that does not come caked in excuses. Even the ending of the book states firmly that it simply just isn't possible to win a presidential campaign in 107 days - not that she, personally, was incapable of doing it.

Every good idea is hers and hers alone (such as apparently coming up with "First Gentleman?") and every failure is her team: "we", and a lot of "I wasn't prepped for this!". This book certainly makes no attempt to show us that she was qualified for the job she claims she was solely capable of - including being blindsided by an interview - within a week of the election that would land her the presidency of the US - and complaining that her staff didn't have prepped notes on some extremely basic policy talking points.

Further, the book entirely based around how limited her time as a presidential candidate was, and yet she is constantly waxing poetic about massive wastes of time (Like wishing she had more time to talk to people about policy concerns, contrast with the amount of time her birthday seemed to take up on the campaign schedule).

By the end of the book, my only impression was that she hated anyone who at any point in the campaign who she thought received more attention than her - people like Tim Walz who are notably absent from mention for most of the book past his acceptance to be VP - and that her staff hated her by the end (notably, the comment that her staff were using her "that was a rhetorical question" line as snark when talking to each other).

I dislike the results of the 2024 election for a lot of reasons. This book unfortunately does nothing to attempt to tell a different narrative than the public perception of entitlement, a lack of preparation, a lot of campaign infighting, and a refusal to accept critique when it mattered. It is, sadly, a great example of the issues a Harris presidency would've brought about.

[Hilario Morales]

If you’re a Kamala hater YOU ARE A 🚩

[Henk · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought of Jean Luc Picard’s quote “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life" while listening to this book. But mistakes were made by the Democrats and little reflection seems to come back
Why didn’t I separate myself from Joe Biden?

For someone (and wider speaking a party) that claims to tirelessly works to defend the working class and ordinary people, none of the meetings in the first 1/3 of the book are with any of them. Everyone is a leader or up- and coming star in the Democratic Party, Oscar nominees like Greta Gerwig, rich donors from Martha’s Vineyard or member of an elite fraternity of an elite university. Small business owners and teachers coming back more from around the 40% mark of the book.
Not to say I unequivocally believe Kamala would have been a better president than Trump, but somewhere is said about her that You come of very scripted and even in her VP selection, going for Waltz instead of Pete Buttigieg for basically focus group reasons, this issue seems to come back.

From calling 100 people in 8 hours after Biden drops out, to having 16 days to select a VP, the campaign track is gruelling. Harris asserts As loyal as I was to President Biden, I was more loyal to my country but it is clear that Biden and his team were a major obstacle. Combined with massive billionaire support for Trump, culminating in Elon Musk donating $288m to his campaign, the 107 days she had were not enough to build an independent platform from a deeply unpopular president who presided over massive inflation post-Covid. Topics like Gaza, trans rights (remember Kamala is for they/them, Trump is for you?) and a vicious post-truth partisan media environment (Today he says I am not black and I need to prove my race? What’s next, he says I am not a woman and I need to show my vagina?)did not help.

There is a difference between campaigning and governing and even when passion for subjects like gun control come back (83 school shootings in 2024 in the US & One in 5 Americans has a relative who was killed by gun violence) the book feels decidedly technocratic. There is disenchantment with the political, media and judicial system at the end of the book but even under Democrats the US was far from the engine of social progress, inclusion and safety for all, which make statements like: The system is not working if only the exceptional people are able to succeed feel almost ironically unreflective from one of the parties that partly presided over long-term trends like deindustrialisation, opioid crisis, unfettered social media and power ever more concentrated in the hands of the few.

Kamala Harris ends the book with a well deserved holiday to Hawaii and the adagio Let us not throw up our hands but roll up our sleeves plus a hope of reaching and enfranchising Gen Z.
If that is enough to turn the tide of polarisation and breakdown of institutions I highly doubt, and I think a more thorough soul searching exercise is needed in the Democratic party on why they lost the popular vote and traditional supporters, to have a credible way towards 2028.

[Benjamin De Almeida · Rating 5 out of 5]

so this really is all joe biden’s fault huh

[Diana · Rating 5 out of 5]

I, like many others, am giving this book 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ before it’s published since the MAGA cult members want to rate it low. I’m sure it will be an excellent book! And Kamala Harris can speak and write way better than the guy that can’t put two intelligent sentences together let alone recognize who he’s sitting next to since his brain is deteriorating and he’s too OLD to be president.

[April M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Five stars because I wish she were in office and your one-star reviews before the release date can eat shit. 🤷‍♀️

[Elyssa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Literally just a blame game for 300+ pages. Everything is everyone else’s fault.