Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Today on the pod is an interview between

NPR's Juana Summers and NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitale, who just wrote this new book

called Electable, Why America Hasn't Put a Woman in the White House yet. And while it's ostensibly

about capital P politics and the viability of a female

candidate for president, their conversation reminds me so much about discussions over representation

and quote-unquote identity politics in other fields. And the frustrating binds, people who

aren't straight white guys, find themselves in. Questions over.

Okay, if I lean in hard on this aspect of my identity, how will a whiter or whiter audience respond?

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Women do okay in American politics.

The country now has its first woman sitting in the vice president's office, Kamala Harris.

But while I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last.

Because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.

Before she became the vice presidential nominee, Harris was one of many women to run for president in 2020.

And those women came on the heels of Hillary Clinton, who in 2016 was the first woman to be nominated by a major political party.

Standing here as my mother's daughter and my daughter's mother, I'm so happy this day has come.

I'm happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between. I'm happy for boys and men because when

any barrier falls in America, it clears the way for everyone. But as we know, she lost.

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