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Michelle Obama: Liza Mundy
Michelle Obama: Liza Mundy
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She can be funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathic and demanding. Who is the woman Barack Obama calls "the boss"? Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait, taking us inside the marriage of the most dynamic political couple. Michelle is highly organised and sometimes intimidating; Barack is the introspective political charmer who won't pick up his socks but he will shoot 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. 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. This biography draws upon interviews with more than one hundred people, including one with Michelle herself, capturing the complexity of this remarkable woman and the remarkable life she has lived.
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Autobiography/Bio/Non-Fiction, Large paperback; faint corner cover crease otherwise fineShare
