A review by emilyjurlina
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Lauren Oyler, Alyssa Mastromonaco

4.0

This book was full of great anecdotes about working in the White House (and from a woman's perspective!!). It's easy to build up successful people in your mind and it was nice to read that Alyssa is just like the rest of us. I definitely teared up at the end when Obama called her to express his condolences about her cat.

I am deducting a star because, even though she addresses it in her book, the non-chronological storytelling style just didn't work for me and made the flow of the book a little jerky.