A unique hybrid memoir Regan Burkes In That Number chronicles one womans struggle to find grace and peace amidst the chaos of politics and alcoholism. Its an important public book from a longtime Democratic Party activist one whose beliefs led her from protesting the Vietnam War at the Lincoln Memorial to working inside the White Housea woman with fascinating firsthand reminisces about everything and everyone from Woodstock to Vladimir Putin from The Exorcist to Bill Clinton from Roger Ebert to Donald Rumsfeld. Its also an intimate and revealing private memoir from a woman who spent a harrowing childhood being raised by shockingly dysfunctional parentsa roguish navalaviatorturnedlawyerturnedconman father and a racist socialite motherand bouncing from house to house to luxury hotel trying to stay one step ahead of the creditors. And not always succeeding. Its an entertaining and ultimately heartwarming journey from private schools to the psych ward from hippie communal living to the corridors of power to the pews of church and through the rooms of twelvestep recovery to the serenity of longterm sobriety.