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Michelle Obama : a life by Slevin, Peter is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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An inspiring story, richly detailed and written with élan, here is the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama, a woman of achievement and purpose--and the most unlikely first lady in modern American history. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller's eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago's largely segregated South Side. The journey winds from the intricacies of her upbringing as the highly focused daughter of a gregarious city water-plant worker afflicted with multiple sclerosis to the tribulations she faces at Princeton University and Harvard Law School during the racially charged 1980s. And then returning to Chicago, where she works in an elite law firm and meets a law student from Hawaii named Barack Obama. Unsatisfied by corporate law, Michelle embarks on a search for meaningful work that takes her back to the community of her South Side youth,...

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Slevin, Peter
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307958839
Category
history
Subjects
Memoir, Fiction, Peoples & Cultures Biography
Rating
3.91 / 5 (631 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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