Displaying 1 of 1 2015 Format: Book Author: Slevin, Peter. Title: Michelle Obama : a life / Peter Slevin. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. Description: 418 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm Summary: 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. Subjects: Obama, Michelle, 1964- Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography. African American women lawyers -- Biography. African American lawyers -- Biography. African American women -- Biography. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-399) and index. 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. LCCN: 2014041100 ISBN: 9780307958822 (hardcover) 0307958825 (hardcover) 9780307958822 : HRD 0307958825 : HRD Other Number: 893974456 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 506746 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: BIO Obama Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
