Ashford Park Resident Pens Steamy Tell-All

It’s not just about sex.

Eventhough the 38-year-old Ashford Park mother revealed very honest details about past intimate encounters in her sexy and funny tell-all memoir, Lisa Baron said her first book is primarily a coming-of-age story of a young woman in the throws of Washington politics.

“People are attracted to a headline and I open the book with a very attention-grabbing scene,” Baron said. “But once you get past that, I’m hoping that you’ll be able to read a very satisfying story.”

Baron’s first book Life of the Party – A Political Press Tart Bares All, hit bookstores this week. It opens with a description of a sexual encounter with Ari Fleischer, the former press secretary for George W. Bush, in a Greenville, S.C., hotel room. This kind of intrigue - consequetly on the heels of the Republican Presidential bids - garnered her book mentions this month in the Washington Post, Washinton Times, and she’s twice appearned on Martin Bashir’s MSNBC show.

“I was 27, Ari was 40 he was just one in a string of casual lovers of mine,” Baron wrote. She said the scene was used to paint a picture of the culture of politics and campaigns.

Baron, who served as press adviser for high-profile political figures like Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss, New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd, said she is under no delusion that most readers will become enthralled in her documentation of the casual sex and alcohol binges that go accompany with what she described as the culture among many young Washington insiders.

But even her website sums it up this way: "Behind our political leaders—yes, even the “moral” ones—is an army of young, horny, professional staffers scrapping it out. Lisa Baron should know—she used to be one of them."

The story however does mature – as she has – to reveal an unlikely partnership between a young liberal Jewish woman and Ralph Reed, the controversial, conservative former head of the Christian Coalition.

“I’m a 38-year old wife and mother and even I’m a little embarrassed,” Baron said laughing about her days as a 20-something in Washington.  “All my friends know and are very proud of me. We have a very conservative family, but they couldn’t be more supportive. My mother is extremely proud and my brother is constantly scouring the internet looking for negative posts written about the book so he can respond to them,” she said.

Baron’s husband Sheldon, simply yelled out “awesome,” when asked what he thought of the project.

But, as a resident of the sleepy and slightly conservative, family-oriented neighborhood Ashford Park, Baron was less sure what her neighbors might think of her.

“I just hope they find out and buy a copy of book.”