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Michelle Obama : a life / Peter Slevin.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 909 .O24 S58 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slevin, Peter, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obama, Michelle, 1964-.
- Obama, Michelle.
- Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography.
- Presidents' spouses.
- African American women lawyers--Biography.
- African American women lawyers.
- African American lawyers--Biography.
- African American lawyers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 418 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-399) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0307949311
- 9780307949318
- OCLC:
- 913499196
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