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PERSONAL
Born 1981; daughter of Christopher (a biographer) and Valerie (a treasurer) Andersen; married May 11, 2009; husband’s name Brooke (a journalist); children: Charlotte, Teddy, and Graham.
EDUCATION:Barnard College, B.A., 2002; Oxford University, M.A.
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CAREER
Journalist. Bloomberg News, White House press corps, 2006-12; Businessweek, reporter; CBS News, staff member; Fox News, producer; CNN, contributor.
WRITINGS
Contributor to numerous magazines and newspapers, including New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the Washington Post.
The Residence was adapted as a Netflix murder mystery television series in 2025.
SIDELIGHTS
Journalist Kate Andersen Brower has spent four years reporting from the White House for Bloomberg News. A graduate of Barnard College and Oxford University, she has also worked as a staffer for CBS News and a producer for Fox News. She is married to fellow Washington journalist Brooke Andrew Brower. During her career covering politics, she has gained an interest in the life and stories of the White House service staff, which she has collected in her 2015 book The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House.
As the grandeur of the White House can feel like a prison to some of the presidents and their families, Brower was “inspired by the class-bound and obligation-ruled prison represented by a fictitious country manor, the one in television’s ‘Downton Abbey,’ which contains a family and their servants,” reported Wall Street Journal writer Henry Allen. Quoted at the Hotchkiss and Associates Web site, TV producer Dana Brunetti saw the potential for television adaptation in the subject matter, saying: “This is a compelling narrative about the men and women who make the White House run every day. There are so many interesting and wonderful stories to tell that are grounded and relatable, I think this will translate into a truly wonderful show.”
For The Residence, Brower interviewed some of the many people it takes to run the 55,000 square feet and 132 rooms of the vast presidential living space, including butlers, maids, ushers, florists, chefs, housekeepers, groundskeepers, and carpenters. They offer stories of their interactions with the presidents, first ladies, and first children. In the book, Brower recounts their tales of Lyndon B. Johnson’s obsession with the shower, the Kennedys’ fashionable and decadent parties, Nancy Reagan’s keeping the pastry chef up all night, Hillary Clinton’s tirade over husband Bill’s infidelity, the Obamas’ dancing to Mary J. Blige on their first night in the White House, and Jackie Kennedy’s funeral plans after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Brower also describes the racial prejudice that was apparent in the White House staff. Blacks filled most of the lower-paid positions of maids and butlers, while whites held the better jobs of florists and chefs. During the Johnson administration’s “War on Poverty,” the disparity was so blatant that black staff were given a raise. Otherwise, Brower asserts, life at the White House was very ordinary. “There is an irresistible, charmingly pell-mell quality to the arrangement of these dishy stories,” observed a writer in Kirkus Reviews. Krissah Thompson said in the Washington Post: “Brower’s book is both an homage to the souls who feed, care for and clean up behind the leader of the free world and a dishy collection of tidbits about presidential obsessions, quirky habits and intimate moments.”
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Brower’s next two books focused on people who lived or worked in the White House. First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies focused on the first ladies from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama. Then First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power explored the role of vice presidents and how they have tried to use that position as a stepping stone to the presidency.
Exploring the White House: Inside America’s Most Famous Home returns to the subject of Brower’s first book but does so with a different lens. It is a nonfiction book designed for middle-grade readers that answers potential questions they might have about the White House and particularly the people who work in it. Brower uses her past research on first ladies to include quotations about their experiences of living in the White House, but she focuses especially on the butlers, chefs, florists, and other people who work to make things run smoothly for the president, their family, and others who work there. The book also includes photographs and fun facts about the White House, including how it was built and all the pets who have lived there.
A contributor in Kirkus Reviews called the book “entertaining” and appreciated how it “conveys genuine respect for White House employees.” They predicted middle-grade readers would find it “engaging,” but they regretted how issues of race were relegated to a separate chapter. A writer in Publishers Weekly echoed those feelings, enjoying how the book focuses on the White House employees but wishing that issues of race were treated differently. They described the prose as “enjoyable” and “chatty.” Carolyn Phelan, in Booklist, added to the chorus, praising the book as “very readable” with “some surprising information and anecdotes,” but she wrote that the book “avoids controversy.”
Brower followed in the footsteps of her biographer father, Christopher Andersen, with Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon. This was the first authorized biography of the famous actress, and Brower had access to the significant archives Taylor left behind, including diaries, letters, personal notes, and over 10,000 photographs. Those readers of a certain age will remember Taylor’s later years, when she was close friends with Michael Jackson and one of the first celebrities to lead the fight against HIV/AIDS. Those readers who are even older (or who have watched Taylor’s classic movies) will recall her as one of the most glamorous actresses of the mid-twentieth century. Brower conveys Taylor’s life from both her point of view and that of the 250 friends and family that Brower interviewed for the book.
“A well-researched, gossipy portrait of a star” is how a reviewer in Kirkus Reviews described the book. They called it an “appreciative biography.” Carol Haggas, in Booklist, praised the book as “comprehensive and intimate,” and recommended it as a “must-read for Taylor’s legion of fans and all who savor well-told and well-documented tales of Old Hollywood.” In the Spectator, Lynn Barber echoed those thoughts, calling the book a “solid, well-researched account of an extraordinary life.”
The Hill: Inside the World of the U.S. Capitol returns to Washington, D.C. and focuses on the Capitol. As with Exploring the White House, the target audience here is middle-grade readers, and she includes historical events along with numerous details about the building itself and the people who work behind the scenes to keep it running. Interesting sidebars include a description of five particularly important days, including the riots on January 6, 2021 (told from the perspectives of different legislative staff members), and she does not shy away from discussing how enslaved people were forced to build the Capitol.
“Engaging American history,” wrote Carolyn Phelan in Booklist. Phelan liked how the book exhibits Brower’s “ability to research, organize, and retell stories” so that younger readers can appreciate both the “immediate drama and long-term significance” of different historical events. A contributor in Kirkus Reviews praised the book as “thorough and well paced.” They wrote it was “ideal for browsing or research,” and they particularly praised the “detailed” table of contents, noting that it will be a useful guide for student researchers.
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PERIODICALS
Booklist, May 1, 2020, Mark Knoblauch, review of Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump, p. 12; December 15, 2020, Carolyn Phelan, review of Exploring the White House: Inside America’s Most Famous Home, pp. 92+; November 1, 2022, Carol Haggas, review of Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, p. 16; August, 2024, Carolyn Phelan, review of The Hill: Inside the Secret World of the U.S. Capitol, p. 52.
CNN Wire, April 8, 2015, “Secrets of the White House Revealed,” review of The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House.
Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 2015, review of The Residence; October 1, 2020, review of Exploring the White House; November 1, 2022, review of Elizabeth Taylor; October 15, 2024, review of The Hill.
Library Journal, April 1, 2015, Rebecca Kluberdanz, review of The Residence, p. 102.
Publishers Weekly, April 20, 2015, “White Glove Treatment,” review of The Residence, p. 15; October 26, 2020, review of Exploring the White House, p. 82; August 19, 2024, review of The Hill, pp. 79+.
Spectator, January 7, 2023, Lynn Barber, “Queen of Hollywood,” review of Elizabeth Taylor, pp. 38+.
Washington Post, April 6, 2015, Krissah Thompson, “After Decades of Silence, White House Domestic Staff Share Stories in New Book,” review of The Residence.
ONLINE
Bethesda Magazine, https://bethesdamagazine.com/ (January 18, 2021), Amy Halpern, author interview.
Greater Talent, http:/ /www.greatertalent.com/ (October 1, 2015), “Why Kate Andersen Brower Is Captivating Audiences.”
Hotchkiss and Associates, http://www.hotchkissandassociates.com/ (October 1, 2015), “Fox 21 TV Studios Lands White House Book ‘The Residence’ for Cable Drama Produced by Kevin Spacey & Megyn Kelly.”
Kate Andersen Brower website, https://www.katebrower.com/ (August 21, 2025).
Man of la Book, http:/ /manoflabook.com/ (May 4, 2015), review of The Residence.
New York Times, http:/ /www.nytimes.com/ (May 16, 2009), author profile.
Wall Street Journal, http://www.wsj.com/ (April 10, 2015), Henry Allen, review of The Residence.
Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/ (April 23, 2015), Erin C.J. Robertson, “‘The Residence’ Author Reaches TV/Film Deal with Kevin Spacey’s Production Company.”
Kate Andersen Brower
Author & Journalist
Kate Andersen Brower is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Residence and First Women, also a New York Times bestseller, as well as Team Of Five, First In Line, and the children’s books Exploring the White House and The Hill. The Residence is being made into a television series produced by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. Her book Elizabeth Taylor is the first authorized biography of the icon. She covered the Obama administration for Bloomberg News. She is also a former CBS News staffer and Fox News producer. Kate has written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the Washington Post. She lives outside of Washington, D.C., with her husband, their three young children, and their wheaten terrier.
Bethesda interview: Kate Andersen Brower
Bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower talks about presidents and first ladies, juggling kids and interviews, and that time Joe Biden made sure all the reporters had their seat belts on
By Amy Halpern
January 18, 2021 1:35 p.m.
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Kate Andersen Brower at home with her kids (from left), Charlotte, Teddy and Graham. Photo by Joseph Tran
On a cloudy afternoon in October, bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower was sitting on the floor of a small walk-in closet in her Bethesda home. She needed a quiet spot for a live phone interview with NPR. Brower’s toddler son, Teddy, was in his room with the nanny; 8-year-old Graham and 7-year-old Charlotte were busy with Zoom school.
Brower’s husband, Brooke Brower, was downstairs working, and the family’s wheaten terrier, Chance, was out of barking range. Halfway through the interview, Charlotte rushed in to ask her mom a spelling question. “I was gesticulating wildly, trying to get her to close the door,” Brower says. “It was a real pandemic moment.”
For Brower, 40, who has published five books over the past five years, this was a typical COVID-era workday. In 2015, her first book, The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, soared to No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list and she became a regular guest on the news circuit about all things “East Wing.” (Her NPR interview in October was about President Donald Trump’s release from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after treatment for the coronavirus.)
Brower’s second book, First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies, another New York Times bestseller, was published in 2017, followed by First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power, in 2018. Brower’s latest books, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump, and Exploring the White House: Inside America’s Most Famous Home, were both released in 2020. These days, Brower is working on two more books and just finished consulting for CNN on First Ladies, a six-part documentary series.
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Brower grew up in Waterford, Connecticut, the daughter of author Christopher Andersen, whose nearly 40 books include The Day Diana Died and The Day John Died (about John F. Kennedy Jr.), both No. 1 New York Times bestsellers. Despite her father’s professional success, Brower says her fondest memories involve him being home when she got off the bus after school. “Sometimes he’d go into New York for the day to do the Today show or something, but he was mostly at home, and I loved watching him work,” she says.
A stringer for her local newspaper in high school, Brower graduated from Manhattan’s Barnard College in 2002. She spent her junior year at Oxford and returned there after graduation to get her master’s degree in modern history. “It was like Disney World for history junkies,” she says of her time in England. When she went back to New York, she took a job at CBS News, but moved to Washington less than two years later for a position at Fox’s D.C. news bureau. “I filled in an application online,” she says. “Fox called me back and hired me, so I packed my stuff and moved to D.C.” In 2006, she left Fox for Bloomberg and worked her way up to White House correspondent. Her son was born in late 2012, and shortly afterward she left Bloomberg, moved from D.C. to Bethesda, and began writing books.
Bethesda Magazine spoke to Brower over Zoom as she sat in the bedroom/office of her Wood Acres home just before the November general election, and followed up with her days afterward.
You’ve been promoting your two latest books in the middle of a pandemic. How is that going?
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We have a little home studio we did when Team of Five came out. The first TV interview I had was on Morning Joe on MSNBC. My husband had jury-rigged bedsheets over windows and put two floor lamps with exposed bulbs next to me and had spent maybe an hour setting up that shot. After the interview, he was so excited. He came in and said, ‘You got a nine out of 10 on Room Rater on Twitter.’
For Team of Five, what led you to write a book on the lives of the U.S. presidents after they leave office?
Actually, my daughter came up with the idea for Team of Five. I had signed a two-book deal with HarperCollins, and I had just finished my vice president book, First in Line. My daughter said, ‘Why don’t you do a book about Barack Obama and George Bush?’ That’s how it came about.
How do book signings work these days?
I did a virtual book signing at Politics and Prose in D.C., but it’s very different. I have no idea who was watching. Unless readers reach out on Twitter or email, you never hear from them. It’s a negative for writers because you don’t get to talk with your readers.
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You are involved in so many projects and you have three young children. How do you juggle it all?
We have a great full-time nanny. She’s much more patient than I am. She helps them with Zoom school while I work. I don’t know how parents do it who can’t afford help. But still, I remember back in March or April when the kids were first home and doing homework from the dining room table because I hadn’t even ordered desks yet. I was trying to help my daughter with math, and The Times of London wanted to talk about Melania Trump. I was trying to do it all, but I wasn’t doing any of it very well.
Is it more under control now, all these months later?
[Laughter] I was just on a call with a British documentary filmmaker about being interviewed for an episode they’re doing on Jackie Kennedy. Charlotte burst in asking for water. I muted the phone and went down to the kitchen to get it for her, and two minutes later she burst in again, crying, because she spilled it and the water was getting perilously close to the school-issued laptop she uses for Zoom school.
Exploring the White House is your first children’s book, written for 8-to-12-year-olds. Did your kids come up with the idea, or were they simply your inspiration?
It was having kids and seeing that there wasn’t a book quite like that. My kids had read the book Grace for President, but there wasn’t anything on the mostly African American butlers and housekeepers who serve the first family. I wanted to make American history accessible to kids, and not always about the main actors. My son’s favorite chapter is on the White House ghosts.
Your sister is 10 years younger than you, went to art school and lives in Manhattan. Your father is an acclaimed writer. What about your mom?
My mom was a commercial banker in New York—now she’s very active in their community [in Connecticut]. She is also an editor—always our first reader, my dad’s and mine. She has a great sense of pacing in books. She can also be brutally honest. She always uses a red pen, and she can be liberal with it. She writes comments in the margins with lots of question marks and exclamation points and ‘WHAT?’ in all caps.
Any advice from your parents that has stuck with you?
My dad taught me not to leave voice messages when trying to get an interview with someone. He said it’s always better to call back and get them on the phone. Messages are too easily ignored. Or deleted.
Your first real job in journalism was at CBS in New York City. What was that like?
I was a broadcast associate. It was from midnight to 10 in the morning. I was basically stuffing producers’ mailboxes at 3 a.m. and the place was deserted. When I got hired, I asked the woman who hired me if I should come in at 8 a.m. or 9, and she said, ‘Midnight is fine.’ She also told me, ‘Don’t worry about what you are wearing.’ I had bought all these new clothes. Andy Cohen—the Bravo host—was a producer there at the time, and I would put mail in his mail slot. Now I’ve been lucky enough to do his radio show and meet him.
What epiphany did you have that made you leave New York for Washington?
It was 2004. I was working for CBS’s Early Show, but I volunteered to go to Madison Square Garden to help [CBS This Morning] set up for the Republican National Convention. I’ve always loved politics, but I just fell in love with the theater of it—the proximity to people who make really important decisions, the sense that they were there for a purpose other than money. I think New York is so much about money, and I felt that D.C. was more about power and smarts.
You came to D.C. to work at Fox News. Your husband, Brooke, is managing editor of CNN Politics, but you met him in 2005 when he was working for MSNBC, right?
We worked in the same building on North Capitol Street. I was booking people for Fox, and he was working at Hardball [with Chris Matthews] at MSNBC a few floors up. A lot of people would do an interview with Fox and then get on an elevator and do Hardball. It was fun that we were in the same world covering the same stories. It would be a better story if I was a real dyed-in-the-wool conservative and we were at odds, but it wasn’t like that.
How did you go from producer at Bloomberg TV to print reporter covering the White House?
I started volunteering on the weekends to cover the arrivals of Marine One taking off and going to Camp David. I remember the first time, they said, ‘Be there at 7 a.m. Saturday morning for the Camp David departure.’ I was so naive—I thought I was getting to go to Camp David. I’d packed a bag. But it was literally standing on the South Lawn watching the [helicopter] take off and then calling my editor and saying, ‘It went fine.’
Is there a lesson in that story for young people who want a career like yours?
I taught as an adjunct at American University in 2018, and I told the kids that’s what you need to do—volunteer to do those kinds of shifts, the kinds no one wants. Sit in the press pool van while the president goes golfing. I did that many times with Obama [when I first started as a White House correspondent] because no one wanted to do it. There wasn’t a lot of news, but it was a chance to see how it all worked.
But news broke on some of your trips…
The ‘underwear bomber’ story broke while I was in Hawaii with Obama. And the prostitute story was interesting: We went to Cartagena, Colombia, with Obama in 2012 for an international summit. But it was completely overshadowed by this glossy story about the prostitutes and the Secret Service. President Obama came to the back of the plane and talked with us about that off the record. Obama didn’t come to the back of the plane much, so it was exciting. I hear that Trump comes to the back of the plane much more often.
Was covering Joe Biden different from covering Obama?
Biden would come to the back of the plane and talk to us incessantly. He’s a talker. On a trip to California with Biden, he came and said to us—the reporters—to make sure we put our seat belts on. Then he sat down next to me. I said to him, ‘Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?’ Since it was for Bloomberg, they were questions about the economy and trade with China. He answered my questions and went back to his seat, but later in the flight his press secretary came back and reamed me out for it. The press secretary said, ‘You can’t just take advantage of him like that.’ I don’t think Biden knew about that. On the return flight, the press secretary came back and apologized to me for getting so upset.
You spent a lot of time with Biden on his trip to China, Japan and Mongolia in 2011. You were one of only three reporters traveling with him. What did you learn about him on that trip?
I was thinking of that Mongolia trip, and I remember that as we watched this incredible celebration, which included traditional Mongol-style wrestling and the presentation of a Mongolian horse, [Biden] came over to where we reporters were sitting and started taking photos of us. Our heads were buried in our BlackBerrys. He was gently chiding us about not stopping to soak it all in. Here he had been all over the world, but even to him that visit was remarkable. I always remember that moment when I’m staring at my phone for too long. It’s important to look up now and then.
The Washington Post called your first book, The Residence, “absolutely delicious.” What inspired you to write about the staff who serve the president and first family?
The idea came to me in 2013 because Michelle Obama had this lunch for the female reporters who covered her—the East Wing reporters. There were about a dozen of us, and this butler came in and he was serving us this really elegant meal. Michelle Obama was on a first-name basis with him, and they had this rapport like he was almost part of their family. It was very interesting to me that there were all these people who work at the White House and are completely devoted to the first lady and the president.
Is the staff really devoted equally to every first family, or do they have favorites?
In 2016, when the florists and housekeepers and chefs would tell me they didn’t care whether it would be Clinton or Trump who won, I kind of didn’t believe them. But it’s true. They are just as devoted to Trump as they were to Obama. Even though many of them are African Americans and many of them are immigrants, too. They are devoted to the White House and they see it as a great honor to serve the first family. During the Reagan years, there was a doorman who needed bypass surgery, but he said he needed to wait for the president to go on a trip because the president needed him. He died of a heart attack on his way to work.
What are you hearing from the residence staff about the impending arrival of the Bidens?
I think the residence staff is looking forward to a sense of normalcy. I’m hearing that some staffers who retired under Trump may look to come back when Biden takes over.
You’ve interviewed hundreds of people over the years. Any favorites?
I’d have to say James Ramsey. He was head butler at the White House for decades. He was in his 60s when I interviewed him. He was a wonderful African American man who was very close with the Bushes—George W. and his wife. He was so close to the Bushes that Laura Bush and Jenna flew from Texas to go to his funeral, and Laura Bush spoke at his funeral. He had a small apartment, but the walls of his living room had all these photos of him with Bill Clinton, the pope, Nelson Mandela, Bush. There he was with his arms around some of the most famous world leaders. He was proud but also very humble. He said he would joke with the Bush daughters because he was a bachelor and they would give him dating advice and he’d give them dating advice.
Of all your interviews, who’s been your toughest?
The politicians are the hardest. Al Gore was a really tough interview to get. It was in 2017, and it was on the phone, unfortunately, so I couldn’t see his face. I asked about Hillary Clinton—what it was like to be vice president having such a powerful first lady, a first lady with a West Wing office and competing interests. He said, ‘I think our conversation is almost over.’ And that was toward the beginning of the interview.
Who have you thought would be your toughest interview, but turned out not to be?
I interviewed Dick Cheney at his house in McLean. His neighbor was doing construction, and Cheney was jokingly complaining about the noise. I’d been worried he’d be difficult to interview and give one-word answers, but he was kind and engaged and a real student of history. We talked in his library for about two hours. He told me the most difficult day of his political career was the day Gerald Ford had to concede and [Cheney] had to place the call to Jimmy Carter because Ford had lost his voice. [Cheney was President Ford’s chief of staff.]
Who would you most like to interview, but haven’t been able to get?
Hillary Clinton. And Michelle Obama—I’ve interviewed her in a group setting, but not for a book. First ladies are tough to get. For instance, I’ve interviewed Trump, but I’ve never interviewed Melania. I think they feel that because they weren’t elected, they shouldn’t have to put themselves in that uncomfortable position. And each new first lady is picked apart in a way they never were before. But the first lady’s role is even more fascinating because it’s undefined—there’s nothing about it in the Constitution.
How do you see Jill Biden putting her spin on the role of first lady?
She’ll be the first first lady to continue a full-time career that’s separate from her husband’s. [Jill Biden is a professor in the English department at Northern Virginia Community College.] No one expected Bill Clinton to be obsessing over state dinner seating charts if Hillary had won—so I hope that people will not be too terribly surprised to see a first lady continue her career. It’s important that we have a first lady who represents the balancing act so many women face every day—either by choice or because they have to work to support their families.
Things have become more polarized in the five years since The Residence was published. Has that impacted the projects you choose these days?
It feels completely different today. Everybody now wants you to have an opinion. I always feel like, why does my opinion even matter? That’s where the journalism background comes in—you just want to tell interesting stories from different perspectives. That’s why my next book is not going to be about politics. It’s a biography about a woman who is not political. I think that’s healthier right now.
You are also working on your first novel…
I’m working on a novel because I’ve always wanted to do one. It’s about a fictional first lady, but it’s a bit dark. It’s so much fun to write fiction. But it’s also scary in a different way from writing nonfiction because you are making up these characters. The first time my book agent said the names of my characters it felt so strange. Before that, I’d only said them in my head.
You moved to D.C. in 2005 and Bethesda in 2013. What are your favorite hangouts—pre-pandemic and now?
I love how they’ve blocked Little Falls [Parkway] during the weekends. We taught our daughter how to ride a bike without training wheels in the spring there. It was something we had never gotten around to doing, and quarantine forced us to think of ways to fill the weekends at home. We used to go to Millie’s and Compass Coffee in Spring Valley, where I’d bring my laptop to work. I think I wrote the entire children’s book there. For date nights, my husband and I used to go to Woodmont Grill and eat at the bar. We still get takeout from [Kim’s] Yirasai every weekend it seems. Our kids love sushi. I’m addicted to their Inari and their soybean roll.
With your hectic schedule, do you ever get a chance to read?
I’ve been taking walks with a lot of moms in my neighborhood once or twice a week—the moms of other first and second graders. On my way to meet them, I listen to books on Audible. I just read The Vanishing Half [by Brit Bennett] and The Guest List, by Lucy Foley, that I liked. I also just reread My Turn by Nancy Reagan. It’s my favorite first lady memoir because Nancy Reagan takes everyone to task. It’s my favorite next to Michelle Obama’s Becoming.
When the pandemic is over and you can travel again, where is the first place you want to go?
I would go to Paris with my kids. I keep talking with my daughter about how we’ll go to the Louvre and see the Mona Lisa and then we’ll go for baguettes. I’ve been showing her pictures of the glass pyramid—the I.M. Pei pyramid outside the Louvre—and she’s excited about that. I have a very romantic idea of taking a 7-year-old and an 8-year-old and a 2-year-old to Paris.
Amy Halpern is a journalist who has worked in print and television news, and as the associate producer of an Emmy award-winning documentary. She lives in Potomac.
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Kate Andersen Brower
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Nationality American
Alma mater Barnard College (BA)
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Kate Andersen Brower is an American journalist and author who has written four books about the White House, two of which have been New York Times bestsellers, The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, First Women: The Grace & Power of America's Modern First Ladies, First in Line: Presidents, Vice presidents, and the Pursuit of Power, and Team of Five: The presidents Club in the Age of Trump.[1] She covered the White House for Bloomberg News[2] during President Barack Obama's first term and before that she worked at CBS News and Fox News as a producer. She is also a CNN contributor[3] and has written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, and The Smithsonian.[4]
Education
She is a graduate of Barnard College and holds a master from Oxford University.[1]
Writings
Brower's book The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House has been called a "groundbreaking" backstairs look at the maids and butlers[5] and other professionals who work at the White House.[6] The book hit no. 1 on the nonfiction New York Times Best Seller list. Netflix optioned the TV rights to the book, with Shonda Rhimes producing.[7] The Netflix murder mystery series The Residence credits the book and Ms Brower as an inspiration.
Her second nonfiction book, First Women: The Grace & Power of America's Modern First Ladies, examined the lives of the First Ladies of the United States. The book was called a "gossipy, but surprisingly deep, look at the women who help and sometimes overshadow their powerful husbands."[5]
Her third nonfiction book, First in Line, covers every vice president of the modern era, from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden and Mike Pence.[8]
Brower's fourth nonfiction book, Team of Five: The presidents Club in the Age of Trump, examines what has been characterized as the world's most exclusive club, membership limited to the former presidents of the United States. Brower looks at the relationships between the former American presidents as well as the strains between this rarified group and the (at that time) current occupant of the Oval Office, Donald Trump.[9][10]
Brower authored Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon, the first authorized biography of actress and activist Elizabeth Taylor, in 2022.[11]
Bibliography
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House (2015) ISBN 978-0062305206
First Women: The Grace & Power of America's Modern First Ladies (2017) ISBN 978-0062439666
First in Line: Presidents, Vice presidents, and the Pursuit of Power (2018) ISBN 978-0062668950
Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump (2020) ISBN 978-0062668974
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon (2022) ISBN 978-0063067653
* Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump. By Kate Andersen Brower. May 2020. 336p. illus. Harper, $28.99 (9780062668974). 320.
With each inauguration a new ex-president is instantly created, a celebrity who goes from the center of the world's attention into a new life devoid of the cosseted Executive Mansion existence--no more Air Force One, no more being waited on. Ex-presidents lack formal Constitutional status in the American governmental system, but they hold a certain moral sway and have contributed much to the nation's welfare. Brower (The Residence, 2015) looks to currently living ex-presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama and the late George H. W. Bush to learn how each constructed a life after the White House. This team of five also brings forward an auxiliary team of spouses who often verbalize opinions they had to repress while in the White House. Brower does not deny partisan politics, but she finds an overarching spirit of camaraderie among those who've borne the office's burdens. Based on what Brower has learned from the past, she guardedly and generously tries to anticipate how Donald Trump will fare when he eventually joins this tiny fraternity. Insights into presidential life beyond the rancor of everyday politics will make this a very popular read for the general public.--Mark Knoblauch
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Knoblauch, Mark. "Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump." Booklist, vol. 116, no. 17, 1 May 2020, p. 12. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A623790506/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=71525fc8. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
Brower, Kate Andersen EXPLORING THE WHITE HOUSE Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins (Children's None) $16.99 12, 8 ISBN: 978-0-06-290641-0
An introduction to the White House, the residence of every American president except Washington and for many years, the largest home in the country.
It’s currently staffed by 100 nonpartisan employees, including five full-time florists and the head of the storeroom, who shops incognito for the first family’s groceries in an unmarked Secret Service vehicle. From the building’s construction to its more whimsical occupants, including children and pets, Brower provides a fine overview of what it’s like to live there, but she repeats some anecdotes (such as Dolley Madison’s saving the portrait of George Washington). By relegating all mention of race and prejudice, including that the house was built by enslaved construction workers, to a separate chapter titled “Understanding the Past: Race and the White House,” there is an implication that racism is over and dealt with as well as separate from, rather than an integral part of, U.S. history. Additionally, the only first lady Brower describes as having to get used to the size and grandeur of the White House is Michelle Obama. (And the only baby born in the White House wasn’t little Esther Cleveland in 1893—it was a child of Ursula Granger Hughes, one of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved cooks, 91 years earlier.) This entertaining treatment conveys genuine respect for White House employees but contains serious missteps when it comes to inclusivity.
Engaging but marginalizing. (maps, timeline, discussion questions, presidents and first ladies, selected bibliography, further reading, endnotes) (Nonfiction. 8-14)
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"Brower, Kate Andersen: EXPLORING THE WHITE HOUSE." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Oct. 2020. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A636727022/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=0387a9e1. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
Exploring the White House: Inside America's Most Famous Home
Kate Andersen Brower. QuillTree, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-290641-0
This chatty behind-the-scenes look at life at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue offers an uneven survey of its history and inner workings. Former White House correspondent Brower, who has written about this subject for adults, pays particular attention to the approximately 100 permanent nonpartisan employees, including the butlers, florists, plumbers, and chefs who keep the 132-room mansion running. The narrative offers architectural details, such as Taft's adding the Oval Office; shines light into the experience of first children and pets; recounts ghost stories; and serves up choice details about U.S. presidents, including their favorite meals and quirks. Though much of the read is enjoyable, a story about Dolley Madison is repeated, and Jackie Kennedy receives more coverage than other first ladies. While a chapter on race--"Understanding the Past: Race and the White House"--grapples with the history of a house built by enslaved people, it also treats racism as a historical issue rather than a systemic and ongoing one. Includes a timeline, questions, list of presidents and first ladies, and recommended reading. Ages 8-12. Agent: Howard Yoon. Ross Yoon Agency. (Dec.)
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"Exploring the White House: Inside America's Most Famous Home." Publishers Weekly, vol. 267, no. 43, 26 Oct. 2020, p. 82. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A642920575/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=66f5dd66. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
Exploring the White House: Inside America's Most Famous Home.
By Kate Andersen Brower.
Dec. 2020. 240p. illus. Harper/Quill Tree, $16.99 (9780062906410). Gr. 4-7. 975.3.
In preparing this very readable introduction to the White House, Brower drew on her experiences as a former White House correspondent and her interviews and research for The Residence (2015) and First Women (2016), both written for adults. Arranged thematically rather than chronologically, the book includes chapters on topics such as the house itself, the permanent staff members, the presidents' children, and the Secret Service. The book offers some surprising information and many anecdotes about the house and its residents, particularly during the last 60 years. Even the lists of the presidents' favorite foods and the presidents' and First Ladies' Secret Service code names are enjoyable. But while Brower acknowledges some difficult events, such as Kennedy's assassination and Nixon's resignation, she avoids controversy, preferring to create a bland, pleasant portrayal of White House residents and staff. The occasional black-and-white illustrations include photos of residents and staff, maps of the building and grounds, and a small vignette in each chapter heading. A limited but informative behind-the-scenes view of what happens at the White House.--Carolyn Phelan
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"Exploring the White House: Inside America's Most Famous Home." Booklist, vol. 117, no. 8, 15 Dec. 2020, pp. 92+. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A649725707/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=012475da. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
Brower, Kate Andersen ELIZABETH TAYLOR Harper/HarperCollins (NonFiction None) $32.50 12, 6 ISBN: 978-0-063-06765-3
A celebrity life marked by booze, men, and incomparable fame.
Journalist Brower draws on the capacious archives of actor and philanthropist Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011)--7,358 letters, diary entries, articles, and personal notes and 10,271 photographs--as well as interviews with her friends and family, to produce an appreciative biography of the iconic celebrity. "Elizabeth," Brower writes, "led the most glamorous and colorful life of any movie star in the world," appearing in 56 films and 10 TV movies. After a small part in Lassie Come Home, in 1943, she was cast as the star of National Velvet, leading to a long-term contract with MGM. Taylor chafed under an exploitative, controlling studio system as well as her controlling mother, who was "singularly obsessed with making her daughter a star." She escaped her family by getting married, at 18, to Nicky Hilton, son of Conrad, who turned out to be an abusive drunk. The marriage lasted less than a year. Although Brower portrays Taylor as an intelligent, feisty woman with a dry wit and photographic memory, she was also hard-drinking and shockingly foulmouthed. She made disastrous choices in husbands and seemed to thrive on volatility--but coveted the jewels men gave her, a massive collection that included a 69-carat diamond ring. She showered motherly attention on tormented men like Montgomery Clift and Michael Jackson but not on her own children, relegated to nannies and boarding schools. Brower chronicles Taylor's career, illnesses, marriages, affairs, and notoriously lavish lifestyle: "In 1992, for her sixtieth birthday, Disneyland closed for the night and a thousand of her friends were invited to celebrate." By the 1980s, her dependency on tranquilizers, sleeping pills, painkillers, street drugs, and alcohol led to two stays at the Betty Ford Center. Brower sees the "single most defining chapter" of Taylor's life as her decadeslong work as an AIDS activist and fundraiser.
A well-researched, gossipy portrait of a star.
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"Brower, Kate Andersen: ELIZABETH TAYLOR." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Nov. 2022. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A724445631/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=af47def3. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon. By Kate Andersen Brower. Dec. 2022.512p. illus. Harper, $32.50 (9780063067653). 791-43.
From childhood, Elizabeth Taylor's face was her fortune. Beginning with Lassie Come Home and National Velvet, the camera devoured Taylor's classic youthful beauty and amplified it as she morphed from teen innocence to sultry womanhood. In this first authorized biography of the last of the great Hollywood studio-system stars, Brower mines previously unpublished interviews, personal letters, and diary entries as well as input from hundreds of friends and family to offer a comprehensive and intimate biography of a true icon. Taylor, she contends, was both a dame and a broad, as notorious for her boulder-sized bling as for her longshoreman-like language. As her tabloid-enriching romantic life revealed, Taylor was a strong woman attracted to even stronger men yet repeatedly fell prey to physical maladies and emotional insecurities. From her Oscar-winning movies to her numerous marriages, devastating addictions, and pioneering AIDS activism, Taylor's tumultuous life unfolds in Brower's portrait like one of her own epic screen adventures. A must-read for Taylor's legions of fans and all who savor well-told and well-documented tales of Old Hollywood.--Carol Haggas
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Haggas, Carol. "Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon." Booklist, vol. 119, no. 5-6, 1 Nov. 2022, p. 16. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A727772353/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=674d2703. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
by Kate Andersen Brower
HarperCollins, [pounds sterling]26, pp. 512
What is so startling about Elizabeth Taylor's life story is how quickly everything happened. She was an MGM star at 12, a wife at l8, a widow at 26 and a grandmother at 38. Aged 16, she was playing Robert Taylor's wife in Conspirator while still doing school lessons every day. 'How can I concentrate,' she wailed, 'when Robert Taylor keeps sticking his tongue down my throat?'
MGM paid her mother Sara to be her chaperone, and Elizabeth felt that the only way she could escape their control was to get married--which she did, to Nicky Hilton. He had managed to stop drinking while courting her, but two weeks into the honeymoon he started again, and beat her up so badly she had a miscarriage--'I saw the baby in the toilet,' she said. She divorced him while she was still 18. Howard Hughes came wooing, scattering handfuls of diamonds at her feet. Elizabeth demanded $2 million in cash and it arrived two hours later. But she still refused to marry him. Nevertheless, for years afterwards, Hughes sent three dozen red roses to every hotel she ever stayed in.
Aged 20, she married a suave English actor, Michael Wilding, and had two sons by him before she was 23. (She also got pregnant by Frank Sinatra, but he ordered his manager to drive her to Mexico for an abortion.) Wilding didn't beat her, but he didn't excite her either, and she was soon swept off her feet by the sexy, overpowering film producer Mike Todd. For her 25th birthday he gave her a Renoir, a mink coat and a diamond bracelet. (She adored jewellery--she called it 'the loot', and was apt to wear a tiara in the swimming pool.)
She had a daughter, Liza, with Todd, and they talked of giving up films and moving to Connecticut. But then, after just 414 days of seemingly blissful marriage, he died in a plane crash and she was a widow at 26. Her good friend Debbie Reynolds came to comfort her, and Elizabeth stole her husband, Eddie Fisher. But he became 'the doormat to her stiletto heels' when she went to Rome to film Cleopatra and fell in love with her co-star Richard Burton. 'I get an orgasm just listening to that voice of his.'
They were soon known as 'the battling Burtons', as visitors listened agog to their screaming matches--she seemed to find fighting an essential prelude to 'make-up sex'. Of course alcohol played a large part. Burton was drinking vodka for breakfast, though he complained in his diary that she was more addicted to pain medication, which made her 'stoned, unfocused, unable to walk straight'. It also made her sound like her mother, whom he hated.
They made one great film together, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (She won an Oscar for it; he didn't.) But then came a string of flops, and Variety said that their last film together, Divorce His, Divorce Hers,'holds all the joy of standing by at an autopsy'. Burton tried to stop drinking, but she told him: 'You're a bloody bore when you're sober!' They divorced in April 1974, then married again in Botswana with two hippos as witnesses. 'We are stuck like chicken feathers to tar -for lovely always,' she wrote. But no, because ten months later, they divorced, this time for good.
Obviously she had to find a new husband, and was thrilled to meet a handsome, ambitious Republican politician, John Warner, at a British embassy dinner. She rang him the following day to invite herself to stay on his Virginia farm, where they married five months later. He was running for the Senate in 1978 and she threw herself enthusiastically into his campaign--though she was a bit disconcerted when he told her she had to sell her Rolls and her yacht and not to wear jewellery. The Republican Women's Committee informed her not to wear purple, because 'it denotes passion', and to dress in tweed. Once he was elected she was stuck in Washington with no friends and became, she admitted, 'a drunk and a junkie'. They divorced in l982, but remained friends.
She went back to Bel Air, where she was lonely, and took a vast amount of pain medication. Her friends and family staged an intervention and sent her to the Betty Ford Center, where she spent seven weeks sharing a room with another woman and learned to make her own bed, which she had never done before. She lost 45 lb and emerged happier and threw herself into her Aids campaign. She raised more than $100 million for the cause and appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair holding a condom.
In 1991 she married Larry Fortensky, a construction worker 20 years her junior, whom she met at Betty Ford. Michael Jackson lent them his Neverland Ranch for the wedding and she sold the picture rights to People magazine for $1 million for her Aids foundation. Fortensky lasted five years, but he took to drinking again and 'pushed her around'. Nevertheless, she sent him $1,000 a month for the rest of her life, 'with every hope that you are well and happy'.
In 1997 she underwent surgery for a brain tumour (she had at least 40 operations altogether), and was often in a wheelchair, suffering from heart failure, osteoporosis, three hip replacements and agonising back pain. But then she acquired a wonderful new friend, the actor Colin Farrell, who whirled her out to restaurants and read her poetry. Her eldest son, Christopher Wilding, said: 'She probably hoped that she might get him into bed, but he played along in a sweet, flirtatious way.' When she died, aged 79, Farrell organised her memorial service, and Elton John sang.
This book describes itself as an 'authorised biography', which sounds a bit improbable, given that Taylor died in 2011. But Taylor's estate gave Kate Andersen Brower access to a vast archive of unpublished letters, photos and interview transcripts, and she also interviewed more than 250 people who knew Taylor, including her only surviving former husband, John Warner. He said she 'never unhooked' from Richard Burton.
I could wish that Brower were less enraptured by Taylor's jewellery, to which she devotes two chapters, but generally this is a solid, well-researched account of an extraordinary life.
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Barber, Lynn. "Queen of Hollywood." Spectator, vol. 351, no. 10141, 7 Jan. 2023, pp. 38+. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A733040546/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=35b063ad. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
The Hill: Inside the Secret World of the U.S. Capitol.
By Kate Andersen Brower.
Oct. 2024. 304P. illus. HarperCollins/Quill Tree, $18.99
(9780063229310). Gr. 5-8. 917.53.
In this companion volume to Exploring the White House (2020), Brower presents Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., as both a symbol of American democracy and an actual complex of office buildings for senators, representatives, their staff members, and support-service workers, as well as the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court. Illustrated mainly with black-and-white photos, the text discusses the Capitol's varied purposes and its multifaceted history, while introducing some of the individuals who have maintained the physical structure or worked to keep the legislative branch functioning. Students reading the book to find out what happens within the iconic, domed U.S. Capitol Building will learn much more along the way. From the use of enslaved people in the building of this "symbol of liberty" (infuriating late-eighteenth-century abolitionists in the process) to the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 (told from various staffers' points of view), Brower shows her ability to research, organize, and retell stories in ways that help readers see the immediate drama and long-term significance of historical conflicts involving Capitol Hill. Engaging American history.
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Phelan, Carolyn. "The Hill: Inside the Secret World of the U.S. Capitol." Booklist, vol. 120, no. 22, Aug. 2024, p. 52. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A808396785/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=a4a17ab9. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
* The Hill: Inside the Secret World of the U.S. Capitol
Kate Andersen Brower. Quill Tree, $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-322931-0
Taking up more than 1.5 million square feet and boasting more than 600 rooms, plus its own subway system, barbershop, and dining options, the U.S. Capitol proves a fascinating subject in this cutaway-feeling view of its inner workings by Andersen Bower (The Hidden History of the White House, for adults). In three parts rendered in meticulous detail, the author covers the building's development, staff, and significance beginning with its initial construction, which was completed by more than 200 enslaved laborers in 1793. Chapters relating the complicated ins and outs of running this small city highlight individuals like Daryl Chappelle, who was the conductor of the Senate subway for 44 years. Later sections describe occasions and legislators who have made history within its halls, such as Hiram Revels, the first Black senator, and Barney Frank, who in 1987 became the first member of Congress to come out as gay. To showcase how the "Capitol has been the site of important moments throughout history," Andersen Brower additionally spotlights "five incredible days on Capitol Hill" from 1814 to 2021. Archival photos bring the Capitol to life, reminding readers that "understanding the past helps us make sense of where we are today." Ages 8-12. Agent: Howard Yoon, Ross Yoon Literary. (Oct.)
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"The Hill: Inside the Secret World of the U.S. Capitol." Publishers Weekly, vol. 271, no. 32, 19 Aug. 2024, pp. 79+. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A807359489/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=cf99bdfd. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
Brower, Kate Andersen THE HILL Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins (Children's None) $18.99 10, 8 ISBN: 9780063229310
A detailed guide to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Spanning the time period from the Revolutionary War and George Washington's placement of the cornerstone of the Capitol building in 1793 to the attack on January 6, 2021, and the presidency of Joe Biden, this book offers an in-depth look into how the Capitol as we know it came to be, how it functions, and who runs it, both politically and practically. Brower examines various "firsts" on the Hill, such as the first openly gay member of Congress and the first Hispanic American woman to serve in the House of Representatives. Other sections note the hypocrisy of the fact that the building, itself a monument to freedom, was built by enslaved people and the continuing unequal racial and gender representation in Congress. The information-heavy text is divided into three broad categories: "Places," "People," and "Perspective" (this last section highlights five notable dates). Text boxes with labels such as "Fun Fact" and "Did You Know?" offer additional context and help to alleviate reading fatigue. Photographs, historical newspaper clippings, paintings, and maps pair with humanizing anecdotes to create relevant connections and provide context while keeping the narrative flowing. The detailed table of contents makes this a useful reference for readers to find material for personal and educational uses.
Thorough and well paced: ideal for browsing or research. (Capitol timeline, selected bibliography, recommended reading, chapter notes, image credits)(Nonfiction. 9-12)
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"Brower, Kate Andersen: THE HILL." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Oct. 2024. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A811898441/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=8cc6e109. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.