This story is part of the WTOP Book Report series written by Terik King. Read more of that coverage here .

Karine Jean-Pierre made history as the first Black and openly gay White House press secretary — one of the most visible and scrutinized positions in American politics. Now, after stepping away from both the Biden administration and the Democratic Party, she’s speaking for herself in a new memoir , “ Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House and Outside the Party Lines ” (Legacy Lit).

“I use a particular moment in time to pull back the curtain and give people a taste of what it was like being in the White House,” Jean-Pierre told WTOP. “But really, the book is trying to meet the moment where we are and (ask) how do we move forward?”

In the memoir, Jean-Pierre writes can

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