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‘Valerie has been one of Barack and my closest confidantes for decades… the world would feel better if there have been more people like Valerie blazing the trail for the rest of us.’–Michelle Obama

‘The supreme Obama insider’ (The New York Times) and longest-serving senior advisor in the Obama White Home shares her trip as a girl, mother, lawyer, business leader, public servant, and leader in government at a historic moment in American background.

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When Valerie Jarrett interviewed a promising young attorney named Michelle Robinson in July 1991 for a job in Chicago city federal government, neither knew that it had been the first step on a route that would result in the White Home. Jarrett quickly became Michelle and Barack Obama’s respected personal adviser and family confidante; in the White Home, she was referred to as the one who ‘got’ him and helped him employ his public existence. Jarrett joined the White House group on January 20, 2009 and departed with the First Family members on January 20, 2017, and she is at the room–in the Oval Workplace, on Air Power One, and just about everywhere else–when everything happened. No-one has as intimate a view from the Obama Years, nor one which reaches back as many years, as Jarrett stocks to find My Voice.

Blessed in Iran (where her dad, a doctor, wanted a better job than he could find in segregated America), Jarrett was raised in Chicago in the 60s as racial and gender barriers were being challenged. An individual mom stagnating in corporate and business law, she discovered her voice in Harold Washington’s historical administration, where she began a remarkable journey, ultimately becoming perhaps one of the most noticeable and influential African-American women from the twenty-first century.

From her work ensuring equality for women and girls, advancing civil rights, reforming our criminal justice system, and improving the lives of operating families, to the real stories behind a few of the most stirring occasions from the Obama presidency, Jarrett shares her forthright, optimistic perspective over the importance of leadership and the responsibilities of citizenship in the twenty-first century, inspiring readers to lift their own voices.