Michelle Obama in Her Own Words
2008
- biography & autobiography
- nonfiction
- politics
- presidents' spouses
- legislators' spouses
- quotations
- african american women lawyers
- history
- obama, michelle, 1964-
- presidents' spouses, united states
The story
The election of Barack Obama has brought worldwide attention not only to what his policies will be, but to what kind of First Lady Michelle Obama will be. Throughout the long campaign season, Michelle Robinson Obama garnered a good amount of attention, kudos and criticism about her words, actions, even her appearance, but few people know what kind of role she will play once she settles into the White House. One clue is to examine her words and statements of the past, and the proposed book Michelle Obama In Her Own Words will show readers who are eager to learn more about America's new history-making First Lady. Michelle Obama In Her Own Words will be a book that contains 200-250 quotations arranged in approximately 75 different categories. A short introduction and biography of the new First Lady will precede the quotes. Drawing on quotations from a variety of newspaper and magazine articles, transcripts, speeches, and TV interviews and profiles, the quotations date from Michelle's career as a high-powered corporate lawyer in Chicago and her high-powered executive jobs in the Chicago Mayor's office and at the University of Chicago, up through the election of November 5th, 2008.
What it’s like
Brisk, practical and unfussy, this is a slim quotation book with a clean, uncluttered layout: short bold lines of Michelle Obama's own remarks sit on pale pages, grouped under around seventy-five topic headings, each entry standing alone so it can be dipped into in any order. The voice is hers throughout, plainspoken and warm, moving between wry self-deprecation about working-mother life and sharper, measured statements about family, work and public scrutiny. Its emotional register is steady and encouraging rather than intimate, with a faint sense of the 2008 campaign moment in the air: hopeful, a little anxious, looking ahead. There is no narrative to follow and little sense of arc beyond a career unfolding in glimpses, from Chicago law offices to city hall to the campaign trail. Nothing in it is violent, frightening or explicit; the only tension is political and reputational. It suits a lazy Sunday with a cup of tea, a few minutes before bed, or a commute where short passages are easier than a sustained read. It is for readers who want a quick, uplifting dip into one public figure's voice, and for anyone curious how she spoke about her life before the White House.
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