Liza Mundy, MICHELLE (2008)

 
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MICHELLE by Liza Mundy (2008)

This brief biography of Michelle Obama, by a Washington Post reporter,
may have been written to give a boost to the Obama campaign. Be that as it may, it is moderately informative though only occasionally somewhat critical.


Still, maybe there is little to criticize in the First Lady. She comes across here as very special indeed--a woman with incisive intelligence, humor, and know-how who cares intensely about the concerns of women and children.


The discussion of Michelle Robinson's childhood is sketchy, and her parents and even her brother pretty much disappear from the book by the time she reaches adulthood.


I'd have appreciated more emphasis on her remarkable father, who worked as a laborer at a Chicago patronage job all his life--and died at the age of 56, having had multiple sclerosis for years.

Fraser Robinson III, father of Michelle, was diagnosed with MS in his 30s, and went from cane to crutches to motorized chair. He never stopped working and died on his way to work in 1991. He had been hospitalized for a kidney operation and died unexpectedly of complications.
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