INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERGrisham'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 SlateSalacious and score-settling. --The
GuardianPart giddy travelogue part belated apologia part petty payback all personal-therapy
session. --The New York TimesStephanie 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.
