Gossip trumps politics in frothy Obama White House memoir

Beck Dorey-Stein: a White House story with a happy ending Pic: Lawrence Jackson

Politics: From the Corner of the Oval: One Woman’s True Story of Her Accidental Career in the Obama White House, By Beck Dorey-Stein, Bantam Press, €17.95

Beck Dorey-Stein never set out to become Barack Obama’s “professional stalker”. When the young Pennsylvania woman moved to Washington DC in 2011, she regarded it as “an ego swamp of a city” filled with “ladder-climbing bobbleheads” who began every conversation by asking, “So what do you do?” ...