A revealing biography of America's first afroamerican First Lady
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Michelle Obama's biography reveals not only her time in the White House as the USA's first afroamerican First Lady but also her life from her early childhood. It is important to know what influeced a person, and to understand the motives of Michelle completely and truly it is also important to know her story from her early life on.
Her growing-up in Chicago's South Side seems to be a complicated one, observing how white folks leave the neighborhood in fear of ghettoization which becomes then a selffullfilling prophecy, of course. But she grows up within a loving family which covers not only her devoted mother, her determined father and her beloved brother Craig but a bigger circle of family containing interesting personages. Michelle Obama, back then Michelle Robinson, recounts how she benefited from better education not only during her years at Princeton University but earlier on when she had the opportunity to change to a more endevoured elementary school. After finishing law school she worked at a corporate law firm earning good money but realizing an dissatisfaction at a time when she meets Barack Obama whom she comes closer to and with him and his hopeful demeanor is able to channel her abilities into more satisfying purposes. From there on she recounts how Barack's desire for a better America of real equality disembogue into his communal, then political involvement, serving as Illinois state senator and finally running for election thus becoming the first black President of the United States after 43 white males.
Michelle adresses the difficulties she encounters, not knowing what her place would be as First Lady, since there is no job description for this position. During her time she finds meaningful work for the benefit of the nation. She also descibes the complexity of the upbringing of her two young daughters within the White House with its benefits and disatvantages like Secret Service agents hovering around them all the time outside the premises.
All in all it is such a revealing, honest and rich biography and I enjoyed the journey on which Michelle Obama took me with it in its original English language. I am eager to also read the biography of Barack Obama soon!