A review by holly_keimig
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 is hard to classify as one thing or another. It was a biography of Obama's chief of staff, but also a self-help book of sorts. It was very interesting to read about someone whose life has been so different from mine. I found myself identifying with a lot of the life choices she made though and was genuinely interested in how her story played out. This would be a good book to give someone graduating from school and looking to work in government.

A couple good lines:

March 28, 2019 – page 84
"... those jobs... taught me a very important way to rationalize when my career seemed doomed or my life felt like it was veering totally off course: If I am never good at anything else, I know I am good at this."

March 27, 2019 – page 38
"There is no bigger compliment than being intellectually curious about what someone else spends his or her days doing."