By As Kamala Harris sees her tenure as vice president come to an end next month, the 2024 Democratic nominee has started negotiating a lucrative book deal that could earn her a huge pay day. Publishers are showing strong interest in a tell-all memoir offering a rare glimpse into President Joe Biden’s White House and Harris’s challenging political career, including her unsuccessful 2024 presidential campaign.
According to a report by The Daily Mail, the potential book could reveal crucial insights into the Biden administration’s inner workings, major decisions, and controversies. Topics might include her appointment as the administration’s “border czar,” the contentious withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, and her decision to pick Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate—a choice that faced backlash due to disputes about his military history.
‘They are throwing around advance numbers in the $20 million range, maybe more with other publishing rights.’
Scoring such a huge sum if Kamala, 60, is not out of the question. Barack and Michelle Obama landed a joint deal from Penguin Random House worth a reported $65 million advance in 2017. Bill Clinton got a $10 million advance in 2001.
A prominent executive at one of New York’s top liberal-leaning publishing houses told DailyMail.com: ‘More than anyone in the Biden White House, Kamala as the number two, and then as Joe Biden’s campaign successor after he dropped out of the race, knows all the secrets, knows where all the skeletons are buried.
‘She was there from the beginning of the administration and participated in all the presidential decisions, right or wrong. She’s the one who can tell the consummate story.
‘It could be even more with TV and movie rights, magazine and newspaper serial rights – and like the Obama’s who made a huge deal with Netflix, the monster streaming service is said to be waiting in the wings to do a deal with Kamala, we’ve heard.
Harris has authored two books in the past: The Truths We Hold, a 2019 memoir that offered personal reflections, and Smart on Crime, a 2009 work on criminal justice reform. During the campaign, an investigation revealed that Harris plagiarized her first book.
Buzzfeed noted that the book “laid out a vision for fixing the criminal justice system” and served as an “unapologetically pro–law enforcement and largely colorblind, a relic of an era in which the country’s conversation on criminal justice focused not on reducing arrests or diagnosing racial injustice in the system, but preventing offenders from committing crimes.”
The book, which Harris co-authored with journalist Joan O’C Hamilton, was instrumental in establishing her credibility as a criminal justice reform advocate during her run for California Attorney General. But a recent analysis by Stefan Weber, a well-known Austrian plagiarism investigator, claims the book contains more than a dozen instances of uncredited material, drawing comparisons to high-profile plagiarism scandals in academia. Conservative activist Chris Rufo revealed that Harris copied and pasted portions of her book from Wikipedia.
Despite maintaining a low profile since her 2024 election loss, which has nearly bankrupted the Democratic Party, Harris has urged her supporters to remain engaged. Advisors have reportedly recommended she release her memoir before Biden publishes his own, allowing her to define her narrative and influence public perception.
Speculation has grown that Harris will run for governor of California in 2026, potentially using the position to run again for president in 2028.
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