(from the blurb) 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.
Michelle Obama is funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathetic and demanding. Who is the woman Barack Obama calls 'the boss'?
In Michelle Obama (2008), 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.
This carefully reported biography draws upon interviews with more than one hundred people, including one with Michelle herself, and captures the complexity of this remarkable woman and the life she has lived.
About Liza Mundy: She is a staff writer at The Washington Post, where for more than ten years she has covered politics, popular culture and women's issues. She is a regular contributor to the online magazine Slate and participates in their women's blog, XX Factor. She has also written for Lingua Franca, Redbook, Mother Jones, Washington City Paper and Washington Monthly. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and their two children. For more information, visit www.lizamundy.com She talks about her book, Michelle Obama, here.
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