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Michelle: A Biography
Liza Mundy
Simon & Schuster
October 2008
On Sale: October 7, 2008
224 pages
ISBN: 1416599436
EAN: 9781416599432
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
She can be funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt,
empathic and demanding. Who is the woman Barack Obama
calls "the boss"? In Michelle, Washington Post writer Liza
Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait, taking us
inside the marriage of the most dynamic couple in politics
today. She shows how well they complement each other:
Michelle, the highly organized, sometimes intimidating,
list-making pragmatist; Barack, the introspective political
charmer who won't pick up his socks but shoots for the
stars. Their relationship, like those of many couples with
two careers and two children, has been so strained at times
that he has had to persuade her to support his climb up the
political ladder. And you can't blame her for occasionally
regretting it: In this campaign, it is Michelle who has
absorbed much of the skepticism from voters about Obama.
One conservative magazine put her on the cover under the
headline "Mrs. Grievance."
Michelle's story carries with it all the extraordinary
achievements and lingering pain of America in the post-
civil rights era. She grew up on the south side of Chicago,
the daughter of a city worker and a stay-at-home mom in a
neighborhood rocked by white flight. She was admitted to
Princeton amid an angry debate about affirmative action and
went on to Harvard Law School, where she was more
comfortable doing pro-bono work for the poor than gunning
for awards with the rest of her peers. She became a
corporate lawyer, then left to train community leaders. She
is modern in her tastes but likes to watch reruns of The
Dick Van Dyke Show and The Brady Bunch. 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.
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