Lis Smith is a veteran of twenty political campaigns. She has extensive experience in public affairs, media relations, and crisis communications at the local, state, and national levels. She most recently worked as a senior advisor in communications to presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. As one of Buttigieg’s first staffers, she oversaw the campaign’s communications operation, messaging, and debate prep. Politico described her as “the hard-charging New York operative [who] helped turn an obscure Indiana mayor into a national name.” Prior to working on Buttigieg’s campaign, she’d worked on campaigns for everyone from President Barack Obama to Senator Claire McCaskill and Governor Andrew Cuomo. She has served as an on-air commentator for MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, and CBS and has had opinion pieces published in The New York Times and Vanity Fair. Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story is her first book.

Lis Smith isn’t your average political strategist, and Any Given Tuesday isn’t your typical political memoir. A revealing look at human nature at the highest levels of power and an intimate portrayal of a sometimes rocky personal journey, Any Given Tuesday follows Smith from her earliest experiences as a college-aged intern to her days as a trusted adviser and confidante to some of the most high-profile politicians in the country—including her star turn as senior adviser on Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 presidential campaign. She shows what it’s really like behind the curtain: what happens when the lights go down and the cameras turn off, how it feels to be in the eye of the political media storm, and how the people responsible for heady, life and death decisions are as flawed as the rest of us. While the journey hasn’t always been smooth, Smith has seen and learned a lot—and she shares it all in this eye-opening, entertaining memoir.

This series is made possible by a generous gift from the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival Foundation.
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