A Life Slevin, Peter creator author. text bibliography nyu 2016 2015 First Vintage Books edition. monographic eng

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418 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm 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 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. Peter Slevin. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Obama, Michelle 1964- Presidents' spouses United States Biography African American women lawyers Biography African American lawyers Biography E909.O24 S58 2016 B 9780307949318 (pbk) 2015510469 DLC 160211 20250709141927.0 18972422 eng