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Discussing her new book with PEOPLE, Sarah Hurwitz indulged some burning questions about her old job working for the Obamas
By Sandra Sobieraj Westfall September 12, 2019
No one was too surprised when White House speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz decided to write a book at the end of the Obama administration. After all, a half dozen of her co-workers already had book deals for insider accounts of their tenures in the West Wing.
But it was Hurwitz’s topic — Judaism — that stumped fellow White House alums, she recalls with a chuckle. “They were like, ‘Wow. Okay. Not what I thought you’d be doing,’ ” she tells PEOPLE.