Jamie Hantman, HEELS IN THE ARENA

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🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Jamie Brown Hantman has worked at the highest levels of government including at the White House and for the US Department of Justice. Politico named her one of the “50 Politicos to Watch." She's a force, and can now add memoirist to her list of accomplishments. Jamie calls her new book, Heels in the Arena: Living Purple in a Red/Blue Town, "Legally Blonde meets Bossypants" - and who could resist that? It's funny, insightful, and serves as an inspiration to other people interested in going into public service or just learning about what it really looks like behind the scenes in government.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast.
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0:44.7	Zibbby for this exclusive offer. I'm here today with Jamie Brown-Hantman, who's the author of
0:50.3	Heels in the Arena, Living Purple in a Red Blue Town. Jamie has worked at the highest levels of government, including at the White House and for the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2008, Politico named her one of the 50 Politico's to watch. She currently lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and daughter. So welcome, Jamie. Thanks so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books. Thank you for having me. I've been looking forward to this oh me too so please tell us heels in the arena living
1:14.3	purple in a red blue town what is this about and what inspired you to write it so
1:18.0	it is my memoir and when people hear a Washington memoir click they want to go to the
1:22.4	next channel because they usually think it's gonna be some sort of self-serving
1:26.7	sort of bloviating name--dropping, very serious sort of book.
1:31.6	And I wanted to do the opposite of that.
1:34.8	I was sort of the goal was Legally Blonde meets Bossy Pants.
1:39.4	So it is a memoir, and it's about my time working in Washington, mostly in government.
1:48.5	But I try to do it in a way that's a little more self-deprecating and hopefully a little bit funny.
2:00.0	And you started it with this really funny quote when you're on an airplane with George Bush and that George W. Bush, and you told him, at a certain point, a woman has to choose between her face and her ass.
2:02.9	Tell me, describe the scene and how that went over.
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