{"id":48362,"date":"2018-09-05T15:17:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=48362"},"modified":"2018-09-05T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:18:15","slug":"thacker-mountain-radio-returns-for-the-fall-season-with-beck-dorey-stein-thursday-september-6-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/thacker-mountain-radio-returns-for-the-fall-season-with-beck-dorey-stein-thursday-september-6-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Thacker Mountain Radio Returns for the Fall Season with Beck Dorey-Stein Thursday, September 6, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beck, for Rebecca, Dorey-Stein, a Wesleyan\u00a0<\/span>grad in her mid-20s, unemployed and living in D.<\/span>C., is going nowhere fast. In 2012 she answers a\u00a0<\/span>Craigslist ad for a stenographer by sending her\u00a0<\/span>resume. She gets a call for an interview and blows\u00a0<\/span>it off (what the hell is a stenographer, anyway?),\u00a0<\/span>and then a follow-up call telling her, oh, by the\u00a0<\/span>way, you might want to reschedule an interview\u00a0<\/span>as the position is in the White House. For the next four years she is around Barack Obama almost<\/span><\/em>
\nconstantly, and when she’s not with POTUS she’s partying and intermittently trying to fix her\u00a0<\/span>wacky love life. This is a Washington memoir revealing its author’s uncharacteristic candor,\u00a0<\/span>charm, intelligence, and heart, as well as an occasionally up-close view of a president exhibiting\u00a0<\/span>those same qualities. \u2014Richard<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein<\/strong> is working five part-time jobs and just scraping by when a posting on\u00a0<\/span>Craigslist lands her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama’s stenographers.\u00a0<\/span>The ultimate D.C. outsider, she joins the elite team who accompany the president wherever he\u00a0<\/span>goes, recorder and mic in hand. On whirlwind trips across time zones, Beck forges friendships\u00a0<\/span>with a dynamic group of fellow travelers\u2014young men and women who, like her, leave their real\u00a0<\/span>lives behind to hop aboard Air Force One<\/strong> in service of the president.<\/span><\/p>\n

As she learns to navigate White House protocols and more than once runs afoul of the hierarchy,\u00a0<\/span>Beck becomes romantically entangled with a consummate D.C. insider, and suddenly the\u00a0<\/span>political becomes all too personal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Against the backdrop of glamour, drama, and intrigue, this is the story of a young woman\u00a0<\/span>making unlikely friendships, getting her heartbroken, learning what truly matters, and, in the\u00a0<\/span>process, discovering her voice.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Hilarious . . . Dorey-Stein writes with honesty and panache.” \u2014Publishers Weekly\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

About the Author<\/span><\/strong>
\nBeck Dorey-Stein is a native of Narberth, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Wesleyan University.\u00a0<\/span>Prior to her five years in the White House, she taught high school English in Hightstown, New\u00a0<\/span>Jersey; Washington, D.C.; and Seoul, South Korea. This is her first book.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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