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Michelle has said that there's a rule in their marriage: She gets to tease, and Barack does not. She is the one who gets to rag him publicly about not putting away the butter, and he is the one who does not get to rag her publicly about...anything.
Funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathetic and demanding: Who is the woman Barack Obama call 'the boss'? In Michelle Obama, journalist Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait, taking us inside the marriage of the most dynamic couple in politics today.
Michelle's story carries with it all the extraordinary achievements and lingering pain of America in the post-civil rights era. She grew up on the south side of Chicago, the daughter of a city worker and a housewife in a neighbourhood rocked by white flight. She was admitted to Princeton amid an angry debate about affirmative action and went on to Harvard Law School, where she was more comfortable doing pro-bono work for the poor than gunning for awards with the rest of her peers. She became a corporate lawyer, then left to train community leaders.
In this carefully reported biography, drawing upon interviews with more than one hundred people, including one with Michelle herself, Mundy captures the complexity of this remarkable woman and the life she has lived.