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Michelle Obama: A Portrait of the First Lady (2009)

by Editors of Life

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Describes the life and accomplishments of Michelle Obama through portraits and candid photographs, from her childhood and education to her marriage to Barack Obama and her participation in the 2008 presidential campaign.
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The writing in this book is garbage. Sounds like an adult trying to appeal to teenagers with humor, and we know how well that always works. (When the Council of Fashion Designers of America announced that they were giving her an award for fashion, "the news could have been filed under: Duh." Really? Is this how we write books for grownups?)

Besides that, the thing that stuck out to me most was the business about fist-bumping that happened during the 2008 campaign (which I'd never heard about until now)... And all I can say is that I don't think I've ever seen something else that makes the GOP look quite so much like the party of Grouchy Old People. They were concerned that it was "a terrorist fist jab"? Really?? That's not the cool grandpa with all the war stories or even the loveable one with the black argyle socks and linen shorts; that's the bitter and slightly deranged old man who sits on his front porch waving a shotgun and bellowing at children who pass on their way home from school.
  mirikayla | Feb 8, 2016 |
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Last summer, when we at Life Books were putting together our volume 'The American Journey of Barack Obama,' we were struck, of course, by the exoticism and improbability of his story: the birth in Hawaii to an African father and the descendant of early European settlers; the handicap of growing up in modest circumstances with just a mother; the years in Indonesia; the identity crises of adolescence; the maturing young man, finding himself in the halls of academia; the neophyte activist and politician in Chicago; the supernova senator from Illinois, and then....
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He addressed, she said, "the world as it is, and the world as it should be," and argued that community organizing could be a tool to shrink the space in between.
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