Michelle a biography
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This book details the fascinating life story of Michelle Obama, emphasizing her own personal and professional accomplishments, her life partnership with President Barack Obama, and her distinctive approach to the role of First Lady.
Independent and supportive, elegant and down-to-earth, an accomplished professional and family anchor as her husband rose to the presidency, Michelle Obama is to many the consummate life partner in politics and the epitome of the 21st-century working mom. Michelle Obama: A Biography offers an unprecedented look at one of the most captivating women of our time, one who is sure to add her own distinctive legacy ... Read moreto the tradition of presidential wives.
Ranging across the full arc of Michelle Obama's life, this revealing biography tells the story of her family background—her great-great-grandfather was a slave—her modest Chicago upbringing, her education and well-established legal career, and her relationship with her husband before, durin
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Michelle Obama
1964-present
Latest News: Michelle Obama Wins Second Grammy Award
Talk about a talented former first family!
Michelle Obama won her second Grammy Award on Sunday—equaling her husband and former President Barack Obama—in the Best Audiobook, Narration, and Storytelling Recording category for The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times. Other nominees included actors Meryl Streep and William Shatner, medlem av senat Bernie Sanders, and record executive Rick Rubin.
Michelle Obama, 60, was not in attendance in Los Angeles, where the award was announced during the Grammys pre-show on Sunday afternoon. She previously won in the same category for the audio version of her 2018 memoir Becoming.
Barack previously received two Grammys for Best Spoken Word Album for Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance and The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.
Who Is Michelle Obama?
Michelle Obama is a lawyer, writer, and philanthropi
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Michelle Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 17, 1964. Her father, Fraser, was a pump operator, and her mother, Marian, raised Michelle and her brother Craig at home.1
After graduating from public school, Michelle earned her B.A. in sociology from Princeton University in 1985 and then attended Harvard Law School, receiving her Juris Doctor three years later. Michelle then returned to Chicago, pursuing a law career at the firm Sidley and Austin, where she met summer intern Barack Obama. They later married on October 3, 1992.2 Michelle Obama left corporate law in the years that followed, working in public service at organizations including Chicago City Hall, Public Allies, the University of Chicago, and the University of Chicago Hospital.3 Meanwhile, she supported her husband’s political goals as he campaigned for and won Illinois and U.S. Senate seats. The Obamas also had two daughters during this period: Malia and Natasha (Sasha).
In 2008, Barack Obama became