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Or the enduring economic disadvantage and racism that all three left behind? But it is precisely amid the dark chaos of these conundrums that we find the irresistible light of Michelle Obama. In Becoming — the first book that tells her story from her own perspective — she reveals that her life is a form of alchemy.
Her childhood, growing up on the South Side of Chicago, is recalled with an essentially American kind of wholesomeness: a strong nuclear family of four, sharing a one-bed apartment upstairs while the one below was occupied by her piano teacher great aunt Robbie. Her family worked hard and kept things moving upwards. If Obama were British, this would be a class tale. I said only what I sincerely felt. But in its dignified tone, Becoming leaves out far more of this sordid history than it chooses to recall.
Becoming is a page expansion of this essential doctrine, without compromising a refreshing level of honestly about what politics really did to her. There are compelling insights into the sorrow of miscarriage, the loneliness of living with a man whose sense of purpose often left little room for anything else, prompting her to seek couples counselling lest their marriage fall apart.
Her candour about home life — the pressure of childcare, bills, debts, work and parenting — are interesting because they are so normal, and because normal is something she has never been allowed to be. Her book confirms what was observable about her time in the White House, that while she may have had to shape herself into the mould of what politics requires of a first lady, it was still a first lady-shaped version of something real.
Her genuine dislike for politics is hard to avoid, in a book rooted in a high moral ground above insults and mudslinging, the political process itself seems the only thing she allows herself to freely insult. In this vein, she attempts to end the stubborn speculation about her own future candidacy.
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The niece of President Theodore Roosevelt , Betty Ford was an American first lady and the wife of Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States. Ford realized the power of her position as first lady early on, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after her husband took office.
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