Sen. Kamala Harris is among the crowded field of Democrats who are mulling a challenge to President Donald Trump in 2020; many have already have come out with their own books. | AP Photo/Eric Risberg Kamala Harris inks book deal

LOS ANGELES — Kamala Harris has a book deal, the latest sign she is edging toward a 2020 presidential run.

The California senator’s book, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey,” is scheduled to be published by Penguin Books in January, about a year before the Iowa caucuses, the publisher announced Tuesday.


Penguin said Harris will write about “the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.”

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Book authorship has become a standard practice for politicians with presidential ambitions. Among the crowded field of Democrats mulling a challenge to President Donald Trump in 2020, many already have come out with their own books, including Bernie Sanders’ “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In,” Elizabeth Warren’s “A Fighting Chance” and John Delaney’s “The Right Answer.”

Harris released her previous book, “Smart on Crime,” in 2009, a year before she was elected California attorney general.

Now a freshman in the U.S. Senate, Penguin said Harris will draw on “the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her,” delivering “a master class in problem solving, in crisis management, and leadership in challenging times.”