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Michelle - Couverture rigide

Mundy, Lisa

 
9781416599432: Michelle
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1416599436 ISBN 13 : 9781416599432
Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2008

Synopsis

It will be a deeply reported book tracing Michelle's life from her beginnings to now. She was every parent's dream, skipping second grade because of her smarts, going on to Princeton and then Harvard Law School. The book will describe the South side of Chicago where the Robinson family grew up, Michelle's parents (her father had MS and worked for the city of Chicago, her mother stayed home), the hard-working culture of the Robinson family, Michelle's experience on the racially-tense campus of Princeton in the early 80s, her success at Harvard, how she experienced the death of her father and best friend, how she met Obama, the kind of partnership they have created, the kind of career as a lawyer and health care executive she pursued in Chicago, her views about political life and her aptitude for it, and her profile as a mother. The book will be based on the public record, on interviews she has given in the past, and on fresh interviews with her and members of her circle.

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Quatrième de couverture

Michelle has said that there's a rule in their marriage: She gets to tease, and Barack does not. She is the one who gets to rag him publicly about not putting away the butter, and he is the one who does not get to rag her publicly about…anything.
Funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathetic and demanding: Who is the woman Barack Obama calls 'the boss'? In Michelle, journalist Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait, taking us inside the marriage of the most dynamic couple in politics today.
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 housewife in a neighbourhood 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.
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 life she has lived.

Présentation de l'éditeur

It will be a deeply reported book tracing Michelle's life from her beginnings to now. She was every parent's dream, skipping second grade because of her smarts, going on to Princeton and then Harvard Law School. The book will describe the South side of Chicago where the Robinson family grew up, Michelle's parents (her father had MS and worked for the city of Chicago, her mother stayed home), the hard-working culture of the Robinson family, Michelle's experience on the racially-tense campus of Princeton in the early 80s, her success at Harvard, how she experienced the death of her father and best friend, how she met Obama, the kind of partnership they have created, the kind of career as a lawyer and health care executive she pursued in Chicago, her views about political life and her aptitude for it, and her profile as a mother. The book will be based on the public record, on interviews she has given in the past, and on fresh interviews with her and members of her circle.

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Éditeur
Simon & Schuster
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1416599436
ISBN 13 
9781416599432
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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