Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change - Hardcover

"Abrams's own grit, coupled with her descriptions of much stumbling and self-doubt, will make Minority Leader touch you in a way few books by politicians can. In fact, the last one to manage it--biracial, the child of divorce, raised with little money by a single mother--became our 44th president." --The New York Times Book Review

"Stacey Abrams writes about her personal cocktail of grit and gumption, the one that could make her America's first black female governor if she wins her Georgia primary and election." --Glamour

"Although there are many books on networking and achieving political and entrepreneurial success, Abrams' is geared toward helping those who are on the fringes, especially African American women, find pathways to success and power....this is an excellent guide that addresses setbacks and pitfalls and identifies strategies to overcome them." --Booklist

"Stacey Abrams has everything you want in a candidate: a good legal mind, experience in governance, and a deep knowledge of poverty and hard work. If you read Minority Leader, you will discover she also has the superpowers of inspiring trust and knowing how to organize. You will have her as a friend, and you will want her as a governor." --Gloria Steinem

"Minority Leader is a special book with a special mission: to push ALL people to know that their greatness and worthiness is a birthright. Stacey's story is not just uplifting, but instructional as well. I am part of a long line of people who have admired Stacey for a long time. Read this book, and you will understand why."
--Wes Moore, bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore and The Work, CEO, Robin Hood

"Stacey Abrams displays competence, confidence, and compassion in her assessment of the attributes and actions needed to deliver impact in today's complicated world. Her commentary is as real as her commitment is remarkable. Minority Leader is both a motivational and a mechanical manual, offering an intense focus on opportunities and an unyielding path to mitigate obstacles. I enthusiastically commend this book as a resource for those who want to grow personally and professionally, as well as for those who seek to help guide that same growth."
--Lisa M. Borders, WNBA President

"House Minority Leader for the Georgia General Assembly who's now running for Georgia governor, Abrams won national acclaim for helping register voters of color in her state and getting business to recruit, train, and hire young people of color. Here, she shows readers from any marginalized population how to become their own advocates, proactively using their otherness while recognizing their fears. Not just local appeal; there are audiences out there that could really, really benefit from this book." --Library Journal

"Stacey understands what it is like to try and balance the everyday obligations of work and family, and Minority Leader offers a practical guide to pursuing meaningful work while acknowledging the myths of 'juggling it all.' All kinds of people face these challenges, but it can be more acute for women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ community, and others with 'outsider' status. This book is for anyone who has faced challenges while pursuing their passion, and helps people who are left out of traditional ladders to success build one for themselves." --Sherilyn Wright, Assistant to the International President, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

PRAISE FOR STACEY ABRAMS
"Stacey Abrams is a deeply compassionate and thoughtful leader who is always committed to fighting for justice for the Georgians she serves...Throughout her career, I have watched her work tirelessly to build coalitions to protect the poor and middle class, fight voter suppression, and register hundreds of thousands of people to vote. Stacey Abrams is the only leader in the race who has the experience and an ambitious vision to uplift all families in our state. Georgia must seize the opportunity to be a model for our nation by electing this transformative leader, who strives to empower the people she will serve." --Congressman John Lewis

"Leaders like Stacey are the ones saying yes. America is changing, but there is no reason to fear the future." --Jason Kander, former Missouri Secretary of State and President of Let America Vote

"She knows firsthand how opportunity is too often tied to a person's race, gender and zip code." --Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon

"She has a real mixture both of ideas, of really good guts, and of the ability to raise the funds necessary to execute the ideas...She's really been able to harness her brains and her heart and her past experience in a way that gives people hope in Georgia," --Jennifer Granholm, former Governor of Michigan

"In so many ways, the system wasn't designed to be led by someone who looks like her," --Jessica Byrd, Three Point Strategies

"Struggle is struggle. There is no rural or urban way to be poor--poor is poor. The key is to make sure everybody, no matter where they hail from, feels welcome. Leader Abrams will do that." --Nina Turner, former Ohio State Senator