Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco

White House memoirs are usually sterile ledgers of a staffer’s chores at 1600 Penn. President Obama’s former deputy chief of staff delivers the opposite—a ribald chronicle of her time as the youngest woman ever to have that job, navigating the highest halls of power in between her own awkward moments, such as an IBS attack during a diplomatic trip to the Vatican. Now chief operating officer at Vice, she’ll tell more TMI stories at this appearance.