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Becoming

Title

Becoming / Michelle Obama.

Author

Obama, Michelle, 1964-

Publication

New York : Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, [2018]
©2018

Supplementary Content

http://www.becomingmichelleobama.com

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JFE 19-4930	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description

xiii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 25 cm

Summary

"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton, where she learned for the first time what if felt like to be the only black woman in a room, to the glassy office tower where she worked as a high-powered corporate lawyer--and where, one summer morning, a law student named Barack Obama appeared in her office and upended all her carefully made plans. Here, for the first time, Michelle Obama describes the early years of her marriage as she struggles to balance her work and family with her husband's fast-moving political career. She takes us inside their private debate over whether he should make a run for the presidency and her subsequent role as a popular but oft-criticized figure during his campaign. Narrating with grace, good humor, and uncommon candor, she provides a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of her family's history-making launch into the global limelight as well as their life inside the White House over eight momentous years--as she comes to know her country and her country comes to know her. [This book] takes us through modest Iowa kitchens and ballrooms at Buckingham Palace, through moments of heart-stopping grief and profound resilience, bringing us deep into the soul of a singular, groundbreaking figure in history as she strives to live authentically, marshaling her personal strength and voice in service of a set of higher ideals. In telling her story with honesty and boldness, she issues a challenge to the rest of us: Who are we and who do we want to become?"--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Becoming Michelle Obama

Subjects

Genre/Form

Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Biography.

Contents

Becoming me -- Becoming us -- Becoming more -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JFE 19-4930

ISBN

9781524763138
1524763136

LCCN

2018469658

OCLC

1030413521

Author

Obama, Michelle, 1964- author.

Title

Becoming / Michelle Obama.

Publisher

New York : Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, [2018]

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Gender group: Women

Ethnic/cultural group African Americans

Social group: Presidents' spouses

Social group: Legislators' spouses

Occupational/field of activity group: Lawyers

Nationality/regional group: Washingtonians (District of Columbia)

Nationality/regional group: Americans

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http://www.becomingmichelleobama.com

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4930

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