107 Days, by Kamala Harris, Simon & Schuster, 304 pages, $30
"Tariffs are a tax on everyday Americans," writes Kamala Harris in 107 Days, the former vice president's new book on her experiences from the time then-President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election through the night she lost to now-President Donald Trump. On the same page, she refers to Ross Ulbricht—the man who spent years in prison for running a website—as a "fentanyl dealer."
It's a good example of the kind of whiplash you might get while reading this book.
From the get-go, 107 Days offers ample reminders of what people find irritating about Harris. The scenes she conjures feel down-to-earth—making pancakes and doing puzzles with her nieces when she first gets the dropping-out news from Biden—but also so