This book was on my wish list for a few months after it’s release until I got to thinking it might be dated. Then a friend whose taste I trust recommended it. Oh yeah? Okay – it was back on and within a day or two playing on my iPad.  

Enough by Casey Hutchinson
2023
Read by author 11h 36m
Rating:  9.5 / memoir 

This is as much Hutchinson’s personal story as it is the one we all saw play out on our screens during the outstanding sessions of the Jan 6 Congressional Committee hearings.   

During the early chapters up to “High School,”  I realized there were probably a LOT of people identifying with Cassidy. To a point, I certainly did.  In fact, it occurs to me the identification factor is part of why so many people read memoirs.  I wasn’t expecting so much about her childhood difficulties, but it gave me (anyway) insight as to where this very courageous young woman was coming from when she took the stand in front of the world that day. I had wondered some about that. 

Hutchinson is a good reader, a bit fast in places, maybe. It usually works out okay for an author to read her own memoir because it tends to add a certain reality and we overlook a few less than professional elements; this book is is no different.  I appreciate that it’s Cassidy Hutchinson who is reading her own book in her own voice. I had watched almost in awe as she testified before the January 6, Committee.  

It was Hutchinson who went to work for Mark Meadows, the Presidents’s Chief of Staff, at the age of 25. She had more background than I expected. She was apparently competent or I should say that her memoir certainly presents her that way.  

Interesting that Trump-team regarded bi-partisan activity as not what the Trump-Team was after – they wanted Trump wins on big programs and policies.

This is just myopinion and preference, she seems a bit pushy with people to me – but my whole style is quite different and hers certainly worked for her! I certainly see where Washington is a place of mutual backscratching with a stab in the back when useful.  There were so many names – many known to me but a number certainly not and checking online they weren’t generally well-known.  But they all seem to be glad-handing away.  

The Covid crisis was almost as humorous as it was interesting. These folks are minglers and they weren’t interested in “best practices” as far as Covid was concerned.  But Cassidy certainly worries a lot.  And she works hard.