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 Michelle Obama - A Life by Peter Slevin Knopf | April 2015 | ISBN-10: 0307958825 | ePUB | 33.8 mb An inspiring story, richly detailed and written with élan, here is the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama, a woman of achievement and purpose—and the most unlikely first lady in modern American history. With disciplined reporting and a storytellerâ™s eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicagoâ™s largely segregated South Side. The journey winds from the intricacies of her upbringing as the highly focused daughter of a gregarious city water-plant worker afflicted with multiple sclerosis to the tribulations she faces at Princeton University and Harvard Law School during the racially charged 1980s. And then returning to Chicago, where she works in an elite law firm and meets a law student from Hawaii named Barack Obama. Unsatisfied by corporate law, Michelle embarks on a search for meaningful work that takes her back to the community of her South Side youth, even as she struggles to find balance as a mother and a professional—while married to a man who wants to be president. Slevin deftly explores the drama of Barackâ™s historic campaigns and the harsh glare faced by Michelle in a role both relentlessly public and not entirely of her choosing. He offers a fresh and compelling view of the White House years when Michelle Obama casts herself as mentor, teacher, champion of nutrition, supporter of military families, and fervent opponent of inequality. About the Author PETER SLEVIN spent a decade on the national staff of The Washington Post before joining Northwestern Universityâ™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. CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Illustration Credits Introduction 1 Chicagoâ™s Promise 2 South Side 3 Destiny Not Yet Written 4 Orange and Blackness 5 Progress in Everything and Nothing 6 Finding the Right Thing 7 Assets and Deficits 8 A Little Tension with That 9 Just Donâ™t Screw It Up 10 Iâ™m Pretty Convincing 11 Veil of Impossibility 12 Nothing Would Have Predicted 13 Between Politics and Sanity 14 Simple Gifts 15 I Am No Different from You Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations 
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