Another Book Review

I will not be doing a book review on every book I read, but there are some that are incredibly fun to read and fascinating for different reasons.  

By page two, I loved this book.  After around ten pages, I knew I would read this again.  The book is three big stories in one and here's a very quick summary of the stories:

1.  A very independent woman goes to law school and decides not to be a lawyer.  She goes into the field of opinion research and then opens her own business.  She becomes one of the best in the business because she polls and listens to a lot of people outside the Washington Beltway.  Her husband, George,

is a successful lawyer and a graduate of Yale law school.  Both Republicans, they live in a building owned by Donald Trump.

2. Her political career takes off when Donald Trump after many attempts gets her to join his 2016 Presidential campaign.  She then moves into becoming the first female campaign manager of a successful Presidential campaign.  She is one of the few people Donald Trump listens to and that made a big difference in the campaign.  The ins and outs of the campaign and what she did as his Presidential Advisor were great to read about, but I'll spare you the details.  She really knows politics and people.

3. The third part was her family life. Accomplishing this while raising four kids was of course challenging and a major accomplishment in itself.  Her husband was very supported of her and President Trump and enjoyed several visits to the White House, but then something changed.

In 2016, her husband George was on twitter and had no tweets.  By 2020, his tweets totaled around 100,000. Keep in mind that was in around 1,400 days.  Many of the tweets were against President Trump and what his wife was doing.  He got a lot of publicity which he loved and it consumed him. 

Their 15-year-old daughter was on TikTok and she became very popular and there were media who were contacting her for interviews instead of contacting her parents.  It was obviously too much for a 15-year-old to handle, but this was overcome in a short period of time.  

In the end Kellyanne left the White House to spend more time with her children and she opened up a new consulting firm. In 2023 her and George divorced, but they are friends and very involved with parenting their kids. 

In April, 2024, George donated the most money you can legally donate to a Presidential campaign.  He gave over $900,000 to President Biden's reelection campaign.

It's a terrific book.