at the McCormick Foundation Center Forum, 1870 Campus Drive in Evanston. Slevin will discuss his biography on April 21 at 4 p.m.
The ambitious biography already “has Washington buzzing with its portrait of the country’s first African-American first lady,” according to The New York Times. Published by Knopf, ‘Michelle Obama: A Life’ will go on sale April 7. “These are conversations that have been going on her whole life.” “Michelle Obama has a tremendously engaging story, one that gave me the chance to write about history, Chicago, race and gender,” Slevin said of the former Michelle LaVaughn Robinson. “If Barack was a helium balloon, Michelle was the one holding the string,” Slevin wrote. But overall, she is portrayed as a tough, competitive, organized and determined woman, one who has doggedly worked to “‘unstack the deck’ for minorities and the poor.” She is also someone who can keep the president grounded.
Obama is not without self-doubt and criticism, and Slevin writes about her very human and personal choices that play out in the glare of political life. Probing deep into her family history - dating back to slavery - he explored the myriad forces that shaped, challenged and inspired her along the way. Slevin, a former Washington Post reporter and faculty member at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, chronicled Obama’s trajectory from her working class childhood on Chicago’s largely segregated South Side to Princeton, Harvard, and ultimately, the White House. “No other modern first lady was so urban, so mindful and outspoken about inequality, or so consistently engaged.” “Her friends call her the most strategic person they have ever met,” Slevin said. Obama listened to her mother’s advice (“don’t sweat the small stuff”) and made peace with the situation and her husband, who at the time was campaigning for the U.S. “So she started slipping out of the house before dawn to drive to a gym in Chicago’s West Loop,” Northwestern University Associate Professor Peter Slevin wrote in ‘ Michelle Obama: A Life.’ “By the time she arrived home, Barack would have Sasha and Malia up and fed.”Ī dedicated partner but a force in her own right, Obama handled the problem with characteristic pluck, according to Slevin’s lively and meticulously researched book, the first comprehensive look into the life of the most unlikely first lady in recent history. If she wasn’t available, Barack Obama would have to do it. to feed daughter Sasha, she had an epiphany. One night, while stewing over the fact that she was the one who dragged herself out of bed at 4 a.m.
Like many professional women, Michelle Obama was struggling with work-life balance and frustrated with a partner who was less involved than she’d expected, according to a new biography from a Northwestern University journalism professor.
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