Michelle Obama: First Lady Of Hope - Softcover

First Ladies are often as famous as their presidential spouses, and in many ways as influential. Like modern celebrities some are instantly recognisable by the first name. Go way back to Martha, fly to the 20th century and think of Eleanor, Mamie, Jackie, Nancy, Barbara, Hillary.... Now there is a First Lady that is set to be as big a star as any of her forebears and potentially make as big an impact as Michelle. Most obviously Michelle Obama will create headlines by becoming the first black First Lady. But while that in itself is astonishing, important and exciting, once the world - and that includes the rest of the world beyond U.S. shores - gets used to that fact, they will find there are other qualities that Michelle Obama brings to the White House. Qualities that come out in this book through Elizabeth Lightfoot's careful biography. It is too early in the Michelle Obama story to write about what makes her tick, but Lightfoot finds a vast amount of details about how Michelle became a key part of 'Team Obama' and helped her husband reach the highest position in the land. Her personal abilities - her intelligence, poise, media savviness and humor - have been instrumental in President Obama's rise, and it has been said that they may lead her to become a future candidate herself. First Lady of Hope details Michelle's career and her personal beliefs. Lightfoot's journalistic background (this is her first book and she admits how daunting it was to produce it in a few short months) is evident from the meticulously annotated text - no quote or reference goes uncredited and she keeps her personal comments quarantined from the factual story. The book's 169 pages of text are introduced with 25 pages of personal preface, and supplemented with a ful 31 pages of acknowledgements and explanatory notes. --The American, Feb 09

Michelle Obama played a large and influential role in her husband's campaign, and is certain to do the same thing during his presidency. Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope examines, for the first time, her astonishing career, from her undergraduate years at Princeton, where she majored in African Studies, to her continuing education at Harvard Law School, where she obtained a Juris Doctor degree. Michelle Obama: