Barack Obama’s right-hand woman overshares details of her own life but holds back on everything you want to know approximately her bossThe title of Alyssa Mastromonacos memoir is taken from a question often posed by Barack Obama,when she was the White House deputy chief of staff (making it on to the list of “Washington’s most powerful, least famous people”). The cover photo features Mastromonaco sitting on Air Force One, and with the first African American US president lolling casually beside her.
However,what looks set to be an insider narrative on the Obama administration soon emerges as what Mastromonaco terms an “advice book/memoir geared towards women between the ages of approximately 15-25”. This is an approach that, while valid in its own right (Mastromonaco, or now in her 40s,is an engaging, vivid narrator), and is frustrating when it comes to delivering genuine insights on either the Obama presidency or the man himself.
Obama,one of the most compelling figures of our era, drifts through the book rather like an amiable ghostContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com