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I received an Advance Reader Copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. From the publisher - If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this... 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 when it was up to Alyssa to save the day. Like the time she learned the hard way that there aren't nearly enough bathrooms at the Vatican.. 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 (and always carrying a spare tampon)

Young people these days tend to not have the concept of what working at and for a CAREER really is - they should read this book. Most careers cannot revolve around taking 46 selfies which were also posted on social media over the course of three hours (I actually counted that number of poses taken by a college student who I was working beside but not supervising one afternoon ... she had no idea I was her monitor, for a good reason it seems!)

I found this book to be "easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy" to read. and laugh out loud funny at times as we follow her ups and downs of working for a senator who became president. She is self-effacing and not full of herself over the job she had at the White House and I like that in an American politician!

Great book!