02289nam a2200385u 4500 232127364 OCoLC 20250709142324.0 ta 100723s2008 nyuaf b 000 0beng 2008033595 1416599436 (alk. paper) 25.00 9781416599432 (alk. paper) (OCoLC)232127364 DLC DLC BTCTA BAKER YDXCP NPL C#P NOG AJM n-us--- n-us-il NOGA E901.1.O24 M86 2008 328.73092 B 22 Mundy, Liza, 1960- 21427 Michelle : a biography / Liza Mundy. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008. 217 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-217). Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait of the most dynamic couple in politics today: Michelle, the highly organized, sometimes intimidating, list-making pragmatist; and Barack, the introspective political charmer who shoots for the stars. Michelle's story carries all the achievements and lingering pain of the post-civil rights era. She grew up on the south side of Chicago, in a neighborhood rocked by white flight. She went to Harvard Law School, became a corporate lawyer, then left to train community leaders. She can be funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathic and demanding. Her relationship with Barack, like many couples with two careers and two children, has been strained at times by his political climb. In this carefully reported biography, drawing upon interviews with more than one hundred people, including one with Michelle herself, Mundy captures the complexity of this remarkable woman and the remarkable life she has lived. Obama, Michelle, 1964- 21428 Obama, Barack. 13588 African American women Biography. 21429 Women lawyers United States Biography. 21430 African American women lawyers Biography. 21431 Legislators' spouses United States Biography. 20585 Chicago (Ill.) Biography. 21432 ddc BOOK 2952 2952 0 0 ABELJ abelj B 2016-10-26 0 B OBAM 13839 2016-10-26 25.00 2016-10-26 BOOK