NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From political wunderkind and former army intelligence officer Jason
Kander comes a haunting, powerful memoir about impossible choices--and
how sometimes walking away from the chance of a lifetime can be the
greatest decision of all.
"A truly special book. This combination of honesty, thoughtfulness,
urgency, and vulnerability is not common in leaders, and Jason
demonstrates boundless occupancy of all of these traits." --Wes Moore,
New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore
In 2017, President Obama, in his final Oval Office interview, was asked
who gave him hope for the future of the country, and Jason Kander was
the first name he mentioned. Suddenly, Jason was a national figure. As
observers assumed he was preparing a run for the presidency, Jason
announced a bid for mayor of Kansas City instead and was headed for a
landslide victory. But after eleven years battling PTSD from his service
in Afghanistan, Jason was seized by depression and suicidal thoughts. He
dropped out of the mayor's race and out of public life. And finally, he
sought help.
In this brutally honest second memoir, following his New York Times
bestselling debut Outside the Wire, Jason Kander has written the book
he himself needed in the most painful moments of his PTSD. In candid,
in-the-moment detail, we see him struggle with undiagnosed illness as he
considered a presidential bid; witness his family buoy him through
challenging treatment; and, giving hope to so many of us, see him heal.
