Welcome to Talking Feds, I'm Harry Littman.

Today we present another in our series of interviews of prominent political figures in

the mix to be presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's running mate.

And we're really pleased to have the opportunity to talk with Stacey Abrams.

Abrams, of course, burst onto the national scene during the highly contested 2018 Georgia

Gouverneutorial race, where she built a broad coalition of voters, the likes of which Georgia

had never seen, but came up just short to Republican Brian Kemp amid allegations of voter suppression.

Since then, she's remained visible on the national scene, delivering the Democrats'

response last year to the State of the Union, and starting three separate public policy

organizations.

And three weeks ago, she published, Our Time Is Now, Power, Purpose, and the Fight for

Affair America.

It's a remarkable book that is at once a personal memoir, a scholarly account of the slow and

staggered march of voting rights in the United States since the Civil War, and a blueprint

for Democrats to increase the franchise going forward.

Abrams has a long history of civic engagement dating to her teens.

She registered people to vote before old enough herself to do so.

She served as the minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, a deputy city attorney

of Atlanta, a tax attorney, an entrepreneur, and an author of ten books, including eight

romance novels under the name Selina Montgomery.

That latter experience shows in the prose in Our Time Is Now, which is assured, nuanced,

and occasionally soaring.

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