Michelle Obama by Peter Slevin

Michelle Obama by Peter Slevin

This is the inspiring story of a modern American icon, the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller's eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago's largely segregated South Side. He illuminates her tribulations at Princeton University and Harvard Law School during the racially charged 1980s and the dilemmas she faced in Chicago while building a high-powered career, raising a family, and helping a young community organizer named Barack Obama become president of the United States.
From the lessons she learned in Chicago to the messages she shares as one of the most recognizable women in the world, the story of this First Lady is the story of America. Michelle Obama: A Life is a fresh and compelling view of a woman of unique achievement and purpose.

Slevin, Peter: - Peter Slevin spent a decade on the national staff of The Washington Post before joining Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, where he is an associate professor. He has written extensively about Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as political campaigns and policy debates from one end of the country to the other. Slevin graduated from Princeton and Oxford. He lives with his family in Evanston, Illinois.

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ISBN 13	9780307958822
ISBN 10	0307958825
Title	Michelle Obama
Author	Peter Slevin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2015-04-07
Number of pages	432
Prizes	Short-listed for PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2015
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