Young Man in a Hurry

** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **California Governor Gavin Newsom's intimate and poignant account of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics Go slow, his political elders advised him, but Gavin Newsom has never known such a speed. For Newsom, the California Dream is what lured his father s family from Ireland, six generations ago. His great-great-grandfather, a cop, walked a beat in San Francisco, where almost 150 years later Newsom would be elected as mayor.Newsom has never lived anywhere but California. His childhood was spent being tugged between two worlds: his mother worked three jobs in order to care for her children while his father, a close friend of the Getty family, brought Newsom into a world of wealth and connections. But the vantage point was valuable: he inherited his mother s perseverance and his father s reverence of California not only its wildness, but its opportunity.In Young Man in a Hurry, Newsom traces the forces that