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Who thought this was a good idea? : and other questions you should have answers to when you work in the White House / Alyssa Mastromonaco with Lauren Oyler.
- Title
- Who thought this was a good idea? : and other questions you should have answers to when you work in the White House / Alyssa Mastromonaco with Lauren Oyler.
- Author
- Mastromonaco, Alyssa, 1976-
- Publication
- New York : Twelve, 2017.
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E901.1.M38 A3 2017 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Oyler, Lauren
- Description
- viii, 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 22 cm
- Summary
- Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade, and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days in Congress to his years in the Oval Office, she made Hope and Change happen through blood, sweat, tears, and lots of briefing binders. But for every historic occasion -- meeting the queen at Buckingham Palace, bursting in on secret climate talks, or nailing a campaign speech in a hailstorm -- there were dozens of less-than-perfect moments. Like the time she learned the hard way that there aren't nearly enough bathrooms at the Vatican. Full of never-before-told stories, this is an intimate portrait of a president, a book about how to get stuff done, and the story of how one woman challenged, again and again, what a "White House official" is supposed to look like. Here Alyssa shares the strategies that made her successful in politics and beyond, including the importance of confidence, the value of not being a jerk, and why ultimately everything comes down to hard work.
- Alternative Title
- Unlikely adventures of a White House insider
- Subject
- 2009-2017
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
- Government executives > United States > Biography
- Mastromonaco, Alyssa, 1976-
- Obama, Barack
- Obama, Barack > Friends and associates
- Obama, Barack
- United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017
- United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017
- Women government executives > United States > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Anecdotes
- Autobiographies
- Biographies.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation -- Leadership, or born to run things -- Preparedness, or the patron saint of digestion -- Independence, or you can't just tagalong -- Self-awareness, or are you there, FEMA? It's me, Alyssa -- Some personal shit you should probably know -- Confidence, or the hope flood -- Humility, or changes we can believe in, sort of, if we have to -- Risk-taking, or Ah-LEES-ah goes to brooklyn -- Resilience, or a "serious" breakdown -- Kindness, or a spirit soars over Denali -- Conclusion: Politics, now with less Navy.
- ISBN
- 9781455588220
- 1455588229
- LCCN
- ^^2016050683
- OCLC
- 953981189
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library