![]() ![]() The White House has six floors, 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, and 28 fireplaces, with “shops” in the basement housing departments such as housekeeping and floral. They (and the families themselves) often compare living in the White House to a prison, albeit a fancy one. The author has managed to track down numerous former staffers-ushers, electricians, maids, butlers, chefs, and florists-to share their mostly loyal thoughts on the illustrious families they served. While journalist Brower moves by theme in presenting the memories of select long-running staff at the White House-“Controlled Chaos,” “Discretion,” “Extraordinary Demands,” “Dark Days,” etc.-there is an irresistible, charmingly pell-mell quality to the arrangement of these dishy stories. ![]() ![]() Anecdotes both touching and hilarious about living and working in the White House, “the country’s most potent and enduring symbol of the presidency.” ![]()
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