Slevin, Peter,

Michelle Obama : A Life / Peter Slevin. - First Vintage Books edition. - 418 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chicago's promise -- South Side -- Destiny not yet written -- Orange and blackness -- Progress in everything and nothing -- Finding the right thing -- Assets and deficits -- A little tension with that -- Just don't screw it up -- I'm pretty convincing -- Veil of impossibility -- Nothing would have predicted -- Between politics and sanity -- Simple gifts -- I am no different from you.

A comprehensive portrait of the First Lady describes her working-class upbringing on Chicago's South Side, her education at Princeton and Harvard during the racially charged 1980s, and her marriage to the future forty-fourth president

9780307949318 (pbk)

2015510469


Obama, Michelle, 1964-


Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography.
African American women lawyers--Biography.
African American lawyers--Biography.

E909.O24 / S58 2016

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