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The Resource Michelle Obama : a life, Peter Slevin., (electronic resource)
Michelle Obama : a life, Peter Slevin., (electronic resource)
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The item Michelle Obama : a life, Peter Slevin., (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Mid-Continent Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Michelle Obama : a life, Peter Slevin., (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Mid-Continent Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- An inspiring story, richly detailed and written with elan, 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, even as she struggles to find balance as a mother and a professional--while married to a man who wants to be president. Slevin deftly explores the drama of Barack's historic campaigns and the harsh glare faced by Michelle in a role both relentlessly public and not entirely of her choosing. He offers a fresh and compelling view of the White House years when Michelle Obama casts herself as mentor, teacher, champion of nutrition, supporter of military families, and fervent opponent of inequality. From the Hardcover edition
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
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- 48
- 4
- Orange and Blackness
- 71
- 5
- Progress in Everything and Nothing
- 95
- 6
- Finding the Right Thing
- 116
- 1
- 7
- Assets and Deficits
- 134
- 8
- A Little Tension with That
- 154
- 9
- Just Don't Screw It Up
- 174
- 10
- Chicago's Promise
- I'm Pretty Convincing
- 197
- 11
- Veil of Impossibility
- 218
- 12
- Nothing Would Have Predicted
- 247
- 13
- Between Politics and Sanity
- 7
- 270
- 14
- Simple Gifts
- 293
- 15
- I Am No Different from You
- 322
- 2
- South Side
- 26
- 3
- Destiny Not Yet Written
- Isbn
- 9780307958839
- Label
- Michelle Obama : a life
- Title
- Michelle Obama
- Title remainder
- a life
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Slevin.
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- An inspiring story, richly detailed and written with elan, 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, even as she struggles to find balance as a mother and a professional--while married to a man who wants to be president. Slevin deftly explores the drama of Barack's historic campaigns and the harsh glare faced by Michelle in a role both relentlessly public and not entirely of her choosing. He offers a fresh and compelling view of the White House years when Michelle Obama casts herself as mentor, teacher, champion of nutrition, supporter of military families, and fervent opponent of inequality. From the Hardcover edition
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- individual biography
- Cataloging source
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Slevin, Peter
- Dewey number
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- 973.932092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E909.O24
- LC item number
- S54 2015eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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- Obama, Michelle
- Presidents' spouses
- African American women lawyers
- African American lawyers
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
- Label
- Michelle Obama : a life, Peter Slevin., (electronic resource)
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- Carrier category
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- cr
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- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
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- txt
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- Contents
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- 48
- 4
- Orange and Blackness
- 71
- 5
- Progress in Everything and Nothing
- 95
- 6
- Finding the Right Thing
- 116
- 1
- 7
- Assets and Deficits
- 134
- 8
- A Little Tension with That
- 154
- 9
- Just Don't Screw It Up
- 174
- 10
- Chicago's Promise
- I'm Pretty Convincing
- 197
- 11
- Veil of Impossibility
- 218
- 12
- Nothing Would Have Predicted
- 247
- 13
- Between Politics and Sanity
- 7
- 270
- 14
- Simple Gifts
- 293
- 15
- I Am No Different from You
- 322
- 2
- South Side
- 26
- 3
- Destiny Not Yet Written
- Control code
- o905649730
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
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- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780307958839
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
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- Media MARC source
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
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- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 7FF94FB8-B38F-40A9-A54B-A657B68F19F8
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o905649730
- (OCoLC)905649730
- Label
- Michelle Obama : a life, Peter Slevin., (electronic resource)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
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- 48
- 4
- Orange and Blackness
- 71
- 5
- Progress in Everything and Nothing
- 95
- 6
- Finding the Right Thing
- 116
- 1
- 7
- Assets and Deficits
- 134
- 8
- A Little Tension with That
- 154
- 9
- Just Don't Screw It Up
- 174
- 10
- Chicago's Promise
- I'm Pretty Convincing
- 197
- 11
- Veil of Impossibility
- 218
- 12
- Nothing Would Have Predicted
- 247
- 13
- Between Politics and Sanity
- 7
- 270
- 14
- Simple Gifts
- 293
- 15
- I Am No Different from You
- 322
- 2
- South Side
- 26
- 3
- Destiny Not Yet Written
- Control code
- o905649730
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780307958839
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
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- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 7FF94FB8-B38F-40A9-A54B-A657B68F19F8
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o905649730
- (OCoLC)905649730
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