Heart in the Right Place is a memoir by Carolyn Jourdan, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 2007 (hardback) and 2008 (paperback).
The Wall Street Journal ranked it as the #7 National Bestseller on September 2, 2012.
[2] It reached #1 on Amazon for Biography, Memoir, Medicine, and Science during the month of August, 2012.
[3][4]Family Circle magazine chose Heart in the Right Place as its first ever Book of the Month, and Elle magazine awarded it a Readers Prize.
[6] Jourdan is a former Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs (now Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs).