Kamala Harris For President: It’s About Time by Russ Mead

Kamala Harris for President—It’s About Time was started two days after Kamala Harris entered the 2024 Presidential race and finished 16 days later.

Mead wrote this book to help spread the word about why the country needs Kamala Harris as President. Russ Mead had been hand-wringing over the prospect of the country losing its democracy, and this book was something tangible Mead could do to help preserve that democracy.

The country was scrambling to learn who Kamala Harris was. This book covers how Kamala Harris was thrust into the Presidential race with just 105 days for her entire Presidential campaign. The book lists essential biographical family information, and resume items, including work as a prosecuting attorney, California State Attorney General, US Senator, Vice President of the United States and President of the US Senate. The book also gives thumbnail sketches of Kamala Harris’s policy positions. This includes reproductive rights and the attack on reproductive freedoms. Preserving voting rights. Providing clean drinking water. The freedom to higher education. And the freedom to receive health care.

Mead had previously written and illustrated two political activist books. The Flying Vaginas, a reproductive rights book. And Put These Seeds In Your Pocket, a book celebrating the brave Ukrainian woman who stood up to invading Russian soldiers. These works and Kamala Harris for President – It’s About Time combine one-page panels with comments and simple original artwork.