An Evening with Dr. Jill Biden: View from the East Wing
Former First Lady Jill Biden discusses her memoir about her years in the White House at this ticketed evening event hosted by Politics and Prose at Sixth & I.
Why we picked this
The East Wing perspective on a presidency is almost always different from the West Wing version — and the Biden years were unusual enough that the view from there is worth hearing directly.
Jill Biden occupied the East Wing during one of the more consequential and turbulent presidential tenures in recent American history — a period that included a pandemic, two major wars, an assassination attempt, and an unprecedented moment when a sitting president was publicly pressured to step aside from re-election. Her memoir offers a view of those events from a proximity that very few people had, filtered through the particular role of a First Lady who was also, unusually, a working professor throughout.
“View from the East Wing” is presented by Politics and Prose at Sixth & I, the converted synagogue in Chinatown that has become one of Washington’s premier literary and civic event venues. The offsite location and ticketed format reflect both the anticipated demand and the scale of the author’s profile — this is one of the season’s larger P&P events.
Tickets are required for this evening. Sixth & I is located at 600 I St NW, with public transit access via Gallery Place-Chinatown.