The Resource Becoming, Michelle Obama
Becoming, Michelle Obama
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The item Becoming, Michelle Obama represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Pekin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Becoming, Michelle Obama represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Pekin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
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- In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations
- "An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon look her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton, where she learned for the first time what if felt like to be the only black woman in a room, to the glassy office tower where she worked as a high-powered corporate lawyer--and where, one summer morning, a law student named Barack Obama appeared in her office and upended all her carefully made plans. Here, for the first time, Michelle Obama describes the early years of her marriage as she struggles to balance her work and family with her husband's fast-moving political career. She takes us inside their private debate over whether he should make a run for the presidency and her subsequent role as a popular but oft-criticized figure during his campaign. Narrating with grace, good humor, and uncommon candor, she provides a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of her family's history-making launch into the global limelight as well as their life inside the White House over eight momentous years--as she comes to know her country and her country comes to know her. [This book] takes us through modest Iowa kitchens and ballrooms at Buckingham Palace, through moments of heart-stopping grief and profound resilience, bringing us deep into the soul of a singular, groundbreaking figure in history as she strives to live authentically, marshaling her personal strength and voice in service of a set of higher ideals. In telling her story with honesty and boldness, she issues a challenge to the rest of us: Who are we and who do we want to become?"--Dust jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- Becoming me
- Becoming us
- Becoming more
- Isbn
- 9781524763138
- Label
- Becoming
- Title
- Becoming
- Statement of responsibility
- Michelle Obama
- Subject
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- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Biographies
- Biography
- Illinois -- Chicago
- Legislators' spouses
- Legislators' spouses -- United States -- Biography
- Obama, Michelle, 1964-
- African American women lawyers
- Presidents' spouses
- Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography
- United States
- Obama, Michelle, 1964-
- African American women lawyers -- Illinois | Chicago -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations
- "An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon look her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton, where she learned for the first time what if felt like to be the only black woman in a room, to the glassy office tower where she worked as a high-powered corporate lawyer--and where, one summer morning, a law student named Barack Obama appeared in her office and upended all her carefully made plans. Here, for the first time, Michelle Obama describes the early years of her marriage as she struggles to balance her work and family with her husband's fast-moving political career. She takes us inside their private debate over whether he should make a run for the presidency and her subsequent role as a popular but oft-criticized figure during his campaign. Narrating with grace, good humor, and uncommon candor, she provides a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of her family's history-making launch into the global limelight as well as their life inside the White House over eight momentous years--as she comes to know her country and her country comes to know her. [This book] takes us through modest Iowa kitchens and ballrooms at Buckingham Palace, through moments of heart-stopping grief and profound resilience, bringing us deep into the soul of a singular, groundbreaking figure in history as she strives to live authentically, marshaling her personal strength and voice in service of a set of higher ideals. In telling her story with honesty and boldness, she issues a challenge to the rest of us: Who are we and who do we want to become?"--Dust jacket
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- NHP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1964-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Obama, Michelle
- Dewey number
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- 973.932092
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E909.O24
- LC item number
- A3 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Series statement
- Oprah's Book Club
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Obama, Michelle
- Obama, Michelle
- Presidents' spouses
- African American women lawyers
- Legislators' spouses
- African American women lawyers
- Legislators' spouses
- Presidents' spouses
- Illinois
- United States
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Label
- Becoming, Michelle Obama
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Becoming me -- Becoming us -- Becoming more
- Control code
- on1030413521
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781524763138
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1030413521
- Label
- Becoming, Michelle Obama
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Becoming me -- Becoming us -- Becoming more
- Control code
- on1030413521
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781524763138
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1030413521
Subject
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Biographies
- Biography
- Illinois -- Chicago
- Legislators' spouses
- Legislators' spouses -- United States -- Biography
- Obama, Michelle, 1964-
- African American women lawyers
- Presidents' spouses
- Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography
- United States
- Obama, Michelle, 1964-
- African American women lawyers -- Illinois | Chicago -- Biography
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- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Audio Nonfiction
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Paperback Nonfiction
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