We see her reluctance to enter into political life and what she has given up, personally and professionally, for Barack’s career. Meticulously tracing Michelle’s life from her family’s history (dating back to slavery) through the White House today, MICHELLE OBAMA: A Life provides a portrait of a woman who-like all working mothers- has continually struggled to balance her duties as a professional with those as a mother and a wife. He lives with his family in Evanston, Illinois.ĪBOUT THE NEW BOOK: MICHELLE OBAMA: A Life by is the first full, exhaustively researched and reported account of her life-and the first to explore how the greater context of race and gender in America have affected and motivated her. Slevin graduated from Princeton and Oxford. He has written extensively about Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as on political campaigns and policy debates from one end of the country to the other. ĪBOUT THE AUTHOR: Peter Slevin spent a decade on the national staff of The Washington Post before joining Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he is an associate professor. EVENT OVERVIEW: Peter Slevin will discuss his New Biography Michelle Obama: A Life.
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