Becoming: by Michelle Obama | Conversation Starters

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Becoming: by Michelle Obama | Conversation Starters

Michelle Obama is a racial trailblazer who has not received enough credit for how deftly she played and balanced her role as the First Lady. People don't realize how hard she worked.
This memoir shows how Obama remains herself as she goes through the different stages of growing up, going to college, working in high-powered jobs, and eventually moving to the White House. The personality traits that she grew up with remain with her -- focus, organization, ambition, warmth, sense of humor. She does not shy away from the uncomfortable truth that she is a “black woman in America” and what this means, more so that she is the first black First Lady of America.
Becoming is hailed as 2018’s fastest-selling book, selling over 725,000 copies on its first day. The book sold over 1.4 million copies in its first seven days of sale.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Daily Books
• Release date: Mar 21, 2019
• ISBN: 9788832548860

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Introducing Becoming

BECOMING IS A FORMER FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Obama chronicles the experiences that molded her into one of the most influential women today. She tells the story of her childhood, growing up on Chicago's South Side; to her Princeton and Harvard years, and eventually to becoming a resident of the White House with husband President Barack Obama. In between these years, she talks about her various occupations, as a corporate lawyer for a Chicago law firm; an assistant to then-Mayor Richard M. Daley; an executive director of a nonprofit, and a community outreach position at the University of Chicago before helping Barack campaign for the presidency. Her memoir includes stories of how she balanced motherhood with her demanding work. It tells of her time spent in the most famous address in America, fulfilling her responsibilities as First Lady. Since starting out as a high school student who was told that she was not fit to be a student of Princeton University, Obama has been defying expectations and has become an inspiration to