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I'll take your questions now : what I saw at the Trump White House / Stephanie Grisham.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: x, 329 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
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  • unmediated
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ISBN:
  • 9780063142930
  • 0063142937
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  • I will take your questions now
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Contents:
We won--now what? -- "This is going to be a shit show" -- Rapunzel -- Shangri-La -- Trump abroad -- Chief two -- Our storm -- The damn jacket -- Africa -- Chief three -- The princess and the queen -- Three jobs -- The West Wing -- Killers -- Impeachment number one -- Hidden enemy -- Chief four -- Headed back East -- Dog park girl -- Boys will be boys -- Snakes and Home Depot -- Election night.
Summary: "Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administration as White House press secretary and communications director, while at the same time acting as First Lady Melania Trump's communications director and eventually chief of staff. Few members of the Trump inner circle served longer or were as close to the first family as Stephanie Grisham, and few had her unique insight into the turbulent four years of the administration, especially the personalities behind the headlines"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Phillipsburg Free Public Library Adult Non-Fiction New Books 352.23 GRI Available 36748002513630
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

"Grisham's book shows considerably more humility and self-reflection than that of any other Trump administration veteran I've read (and I've pretty much read them all)." -- Laura Miller, Slate

"Salacious and score-settling." --The Guardian

"Part giddy travelogue, part belated apologia, part petty payback, all personal-therapy session." --The New York Times

Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administration as White House press secretary and communications director, while at the same time acting as First Lady Melania Trump's communications director and eventually chief of staff. Few members of the Trump inner circle served longer or were as close to the first family as Stephanie Grisham, and few have her unique insight into the turbulent four years of the administration, especially the personalities behind the headlines.

I'll Take Your Questions Now is a White House memoir like no other, written by someone no longer bound by the codes of spin, denial, and twisted loyalty that the Trump administration imposed on all its members. Here is a brutally honest, frequently funny, and always perceptive look behind the scenes of a White House that was in turmoil from day one.

After an early stint in the White House press office, Grisham moved to the East Wing to work for First Lady Melania Trump. This introduced Grisham to a whole new perspective on Trump World, and she soon became a devoted adviser to the first lady, privy to Melania Trump's most candid thoughts on every imaginable topic and noteworthy events: Jared and Ivanka, Stormy Daniels, the first lady's infamous jacket that read "I Really Don't Care, Do U?" and much more.

Grisham's work for the first lady would lead to her appointment as the White House press secretary in 2019. As one of the few figures in the Trump White House to last all four years, Grisham shares her unfiltered view of the whole experience--from the early days when she was seduced by the glamour and power of Trump World to her quickly ascending career in a frequently toxic, dog-eat-dog workplace, to the pinnacles of her profession, where she soon faced the harshest lessons of flying too close to the sun.

Grisham's memoir is also a personal reckoning from someone who was a true believer, tracing her dawning awareness of how the administration began to lose sight of its mission--serving the people--in its constant battles with the press and other politicians and, above all, in the unending internal drama that consumed a rowdy cast of advisers, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, and the president and first lady themselves. It is a story that ends in tragedy with the events of January 6, 2021, the day on which Grisham was the first administration official to quit, a long-overdue severing of ties with the people who had brought her to the job of a lifetime but at enormous cost. It is an account in which Grisham spares no one, not even herself.

I'll Take Your Questions Now is not just about politics or the White House. It is about loyalty and family, learning and screwing up, proud moments and monumental regrets, narcissism and humility, love and heartbreak, friendships and loss, and, of course, falling down and trying your damnedest to get back up.

We won--now what? -- "This is going to be a shit show" -- Rapunzel -- Shangri-La -- Trump abroad -- Chief two -- Our storm -- The damn jacket -- Africa -- Chief three -- The princess and the queen -- Three jobs -- The West Wing -- Killers -- Impeachment number one -- Hidden enemy -- Chief four -- Headed back East -- Dog park girl -- Boys will be boys -- Snakes and Home Depot -- Election night.

"Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administration as White House press secretary and communications director, while at the same time acting as First Lady Melania Trump's communications director and eventually chief of staff. Few members of the Trump inner circle served longer or were as close to the first family as Stephanie Grisham, and few had her unique insight into the turbulent four years of the administration, especially the personalities behind the headlines"-- Provided by publisher.

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Kirkus Book Review

A former Trump staffer reveals what by now are mostly open secrets. As Trump's press secretary for eight months, Grisham famously held no press briefings--not that there was any shortage of news. One reason, it seems, was that keeping the press away was a good way to stay out of trouble. Her predecessor, Sean Spicer, drew ridicule on Day 1 for a patent lie: "Forcing Sean to claim that the inauguration crowd was bigger than Obama's, which I imagine Sean also knew was bullshit, was a test. Trump always wanted to see how far you would go to do his bidding; it was his way of measuring your loyalty." Grisham offers little hard news, but she dishes well. Trump emerges, as in practically every other account, as an enraged, lecherous ogre with a preadolescent brain and a complete lack of any ability to censor himself. Melania Trump bears the Secret Service code name Rapunzel "because she remained in her tower, never descending." When she did, it was usually to commit some faux pas, like the "I really don't care, do u?" jacket while on the way to visit incarcerated children on the border. ("What a stupid thing to do.") Regarding other family members, Ivanka has the depth of an inflatable pool and Jared Kushner, a scheming nature that far transcends the term Machiavellian, with the two showing up at John McCain's funeral just to be seen. All the "mostly middle-aged white dudes" who made up the Cabinet were useless in the face of events such as "one of our first huge embarrassing, insulting, tone-deaf disasters," namely Trump's abysmal response to the White supremacist march in Charlottesville. And so forth, with few surprises, thanks to a narrative path already paved by dozens of other books, save for its moral: In the Trump White House, "instead of focusing on getting productive work done, you just want to survive." A decidedly minor, though occasionally entertaining, addition to the sad library of Trumpiana. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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