Two stars because it's advertised as a "Behind the Scenes" look at the Obama administration. It's more of a "lessons learned during my career in politics, which includes working with Barack Obama" type of book. It reads like ten blog posts compiled into a book; it's organized around different qualities, such as leadership, resilience, and kindness. So the book confused me because the timeline jumped all over the place as Mastromonaco told stories illustrating these qualities, some of which include Mr. Obama, but many do not. There is a touching story involving Mr. Obama and Mastromonaco's cat at the end. It's a fun quick read, but I think I expected something different.

Sidebar: I think 12/Hachette Book Group publish amazing books (Dave Cullen's Columbine and I recently read Tribe by Sebastian Junger) so I had high expectations.