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The Guardian - US
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Lloyd Green

Any Given Tuesday: Lis Smith on Cuomo, Spitzer and a political life

Lis Smith waits before a Pete Buttigieg speech during the Polk county steak fry at the Water Works Park in Des Moines, Iowa.
Lis Smith waits before a Pete Buttigieg speech during the Polk county steak fry at the Water Works Park in Des Moines, Iowa. Photograph: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images

With Any Given Tuesday, Lis Smith delivers 300 pages of smack, snark and vulnerability. A veteran Democratic campaign hand, she shares up-close takes of those who appear in the news and dishes autobiographical vignettes. The book, her first, is a political memoir and coming-of-age tale. It is breezy and informative.

For two decades, Smith worked in the trenches. She witnessed plenty and bears the resulting scars. Most recently, she was a senior media adviser to Pete Buttigieg, now transportation secretary in the Biden administration, and counseled Andrew Cuomo, now a disgraced ex-governor of New York.

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