Michelle Obama
A Life. Nominiert: PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2015
(Sprache: Englisch)
This is the inspiring story of a modern American icon, the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama.
With disciplined reporting and a storyteller s eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White...
With disciplined reporting and a storyteller s eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White...
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This is the inspiring story of a modern American icon, the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. 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. He illuminates her tribulations at Princeton University and Harvard Law School during the racially charged 1980s and the dilemmas she faced in Chicago while building a high-powered career, raising a family, and helping a young community organizer named Barack Obama become president of the United States.
From the lessons she learned in Chicago to the messages she shares as one of the most recognizable women in the world, the story of this First Lady is the story of America. Michelle Obama: A Life is a fresh and compelling view of a woman of unique achievement and purpose.
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IntroductionIn June 2010, when Michelle Obama cast her eyes across the class of graduating high school seniors from one of Washington s most troubled black neighborhoods, she saw not only their lives, but her own. The setting was Constitution Hall, where the Daughters of the American Revolution had prevented opera singer Marian Anderson from performing in 1939 because she was black. So much had changed in seven decades, and yet much had not. Michelle spoke to the graduates about the troubles facing African American children in Anacostia, and she spoke about racism. She pointed out that the neighborhood within sight of the U.S. Capitol once was segregated and that black people had been prohibited from owning property in parts of the community. And even after those barriers were torn down, she said, others emerged. Poverty. Violence. Inequality.
Michelle drew a straight line from her struggles with hardship and self-doubt in working-class Chicago to the fractured world the Anacostia students inhabited thirty years later. She told them about being written off, about feeling rejected, about the resilience it takes for a black kid in a public school to become one of the first in her family to go to college. Kids teasing me when I studied hard. Teachers telling me not to reach too high because my test scores weren t good enough. Folks making it clear with what they said or didn t say that success wasn t meant for a little girl like me from the South Side of Chicago. As she spoke of her parents their sacrifices and the way they pushed her to reach for a life they never knew her voice broke and tears came to her eyes. As the students applauded in support, Michelle went on, And if Barack were here, he d say the same thing was true for him. He d tell you it was hard at times growing up without a father. He d tell you that his family didn t have a lot of money. He d tell you he made plenty of mistakes and wasn t always the best student.
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knew that many of the Anacostia students faced disruptions and distractions that sometimes made it hard to show up, much less succeed. It might be family turmoil or money troubles or needy relatives or children of their own. Or maybe the lack of a mentor, a quiet place to study, a lucky break. Maybe you feel like no one has your back, like you ve been let down by people so many times that you ve stopped believing in yourself. Maybe you feel like your destiny was written the day you were born and you ought to just rein in your hopes and scale back your dreams. But if any of you are thinking that way, I m here to tell you: Stop it.
There were no cheap lines in Michelle s speech that day, seventeen months after she arrived in the White House as the unlikeliest first lady in modern history. In a voice entirely her own, she reached deep into a lifetime of thinking about race, politics, and power to deliver a message about inequity and perseverance, challenge and uplift. These were the themes and experiences that animated her and set her apart. No one who looked like Michelle Obama had ever occupied the White House. No one who acted quite like her, either. She ran obstacle courses, she danced the Dougie, she hula-hooped on the White House lawn. She opened the executive mansion to fresh faces and voices and took her show on the road. She did sitcoms and talk shows and participated in cyber showcases and social media almost as soon as they were invented. Cameras and microphones tracked her every move. Maddening though the attention could be, she tried to make it useful. Amid a characteristic media fuss about a new hairstyle, she said of first ladies, We take our bangs and we stand in front of important things that the world needs to see. And eventually, people stop
There were no cheap lines in Michelle s speech that day, seventeen months after she arrived in the White House as the unlikeliest first lady in modern history. In a voice entirely her own, she reached deep into a lifetime of thinking about race, politics, and power to deliver a message about inequity and perseverance, challenge and uplift. These were the themes and experiences that animated her and set her apart. No one who looked like Michelle Obama had ever occupied the White House. No one who acted quite like her, either. She ran obstacle courses, she danced the Dougie, she hula-hooped on the White House lawn. She opened the executive mansion to fresh faces and voices and took her show on the road. She did sitcoms and talk shows and participated in cyber showcases and social media almost as soon as they were invented. Cameras and microphones tracked her every move. Maddening though the attention could be, she tried to make it useful. Amid a characteristic media fuss about a new hairstyle, she said of first ladies, We take our bangs and we stand in front of important things that the world needs to see. And eventually, people stop
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Autoren-Porträt von Peter Slevin
Peter Slevin is a contributing writer for The New Yorker, focusing on politics. He spent a decade on the national staff of The Washington Post, writing extensively about Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as political campaigns and policy debates from one end of the country to the other. He lives in Evanston, Illinois, where he is a professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Slevin
- 2016, 432 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 13,1 x 20 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 0307949311
- ISBN-13: 9780307949318
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.01.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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Finalist for the 2015 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyOne of Booklist s Top Ten Biographies of 2015
Detailed and absorbing. . . . [B]ring[s] a storied public figure to life. The Washington Post
A deeply informed portrait of the first lady and her native Chicago. . . . Her larger story, told so powerfully in Slevin s biography, suggests she will forever be a force with which to be reckoned.
Chicago Tribune
A must-read. . . . An important new biography. . . . Slevin treats [the First Lady] and her accomplishments with the detail and nuance they deserve.
Elle Magazine
A standout. . . . Michelle Obama s story is an American classic. . . . Slevin combines access to her and her family and friends with a keen understanding of American politics and history.
USA Today
Thoughtful. . . . Ripe with revelations about her deeply complicated relationship with her own position as an Ivy League-educated black woman. . . . Richly rendered context for Mr. Obama s 2008 campaign, when Mrs. Obama suddenly became a litmus test.
The New York Times Book Review
[A] meticulously reported, close-up look. . . . A detailed portrait of an ambitious, civic-minded woman with a track record for getting things done.
The Florida Times-Union
Makes a convincing case that Mrs. Obama s popularity today has more to do with events that took place on the south side of Chicago decades ago than with the work of an image maker in the East Wing of the White House.
The Wall Street Journal
Impressively reported and researched. . . . fast-paced.
Chicago magazine
Richly detailed prose. . . . tons of little-known nuggets revealed in the book, offering readers a closer look at the Mrs. Obama they never knew.
NBC
[An] intimate view of her life. . . . The most comprehensive portrait to date of the nation s first African-American first lady.
Atlanta BlackStar
The most ambitious and
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authoritative book about [First Lady Michelle Obama] yet. Richly reported, beautifully written, thoughtful in its judgments and revelatory in its details . . . a work that does justice to Michelle Obama in a fresh way.
John Heilemann, co-author of Game Change and Double Down
The life of Michelle Obama is a uniquely American story, and Peter Slevin tells it beautifully in this deft, revealing work. . . . Slevin also paints a rich picture of Chicago s South Side during the past century and the family and forces that helped shape this exceptional woman.
David Axelrod, former Senior Advisor to the President, director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago
Slevin is dogged in his reporting, nuanced in his storytelling and thoughtful in his analysis. He not only shows us who this historical first lady is, but how she came to be. In the process, he reveals much about our times and our culture.
Robin Givhan, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the Washington Post
Compelling. . . . [An] exhaustive and thoughtful portrait. . . . will delight the most ardent Michelle Watchers.
Patrik Henry Bass, NY1
An amazing, eye-opening biography that begins on Chicago s South Side and ends in the White House. . . . a rich, powerful portrait at once revealing of Mrs. Obama and of ourselves as Americans.
Dexter Filkins, author of The Forever War
John Heilemann, co-author of Game Change and Double Down
The life of Michelle Obama is a uniquely American story, and Peter Slevin tells it beautifully in this deft, revealing work. . . . Slevin also paints a rich picture of Chicago s South Side during the past century and the family and forces that helped shape this exceptional woman.
David Axelrod, former Senior Advisor to the President, director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago
Slevin is dogged in his reporting, nuanced in his storytelling and thoughtful in his analysis. He not only shows us who this historical first lady is, but how she came to be. In the process, he reveals much about our times and our culture.
Robin Givhan, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the Washington Post
Compelling. . . . [An] exhaustive and thoughtful portrait. . . . will delight the most ardent Michelle Watchers.
Patrik Henry Bass, NY1
An amazing, eye-opening biography that begins on Chicago s South Side and ends in the White House. . . . a rich, powerful portrait at once revealing of Mrs. Obama and of ourselves as Americans.
Dexter Filkins, author of The Forever War
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