Gavin Newsom

There's so many political books out there.

Diamond does.

I'm not knocking anybody.

I'm not.

There's some great ones too.

But this is not your typical political book.

But it's me, man.

It's, you know, all the good, the bad, the sweaty hands, the nervous guy in the back of the room, the guy, you know, tries to put a mask on, wear a tie, you know, the whole thing.

And mistakes I made, you know, how I played into the stereotypes.

But it's a little more raw.

And to the extent it's emotional, it's real, man.

I was there for my mom's assisted suicide when it was illegal.

And I was there with her, held her hand, her last breath.

I didn't know about her dad who put a gun to her head, committed suicide.

He was a prisoner of war after the March in Corregido.

I didn't know all this history.

I didn't know that history.

And so, it shaped me.

And now it explains who I am in ways that I never understood the why, why I was motivated by this, why I was doing certain things, why I felt certain anxieties.

And it all just started to take place and shape as I started to learn and dive deeper in this book.