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Title:
Michelle Obama : a life / Peter B. Slevin.
Author:
Slevin, Peter B.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2015]
Call Number:
E909.O24 S58 2015
Abstract:
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.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780307958822
Physical Description:
418 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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.
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