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Michelle Obama in Her Own Words: the Views andValues of America's First Lady, edited by Lisa Rogak. Copyright ©2009 by Lisa Rogak. Published in the United States byPublicAffairsTM, a member of the Perseus Books Group.

The election of Barack Obama has brought worldwide attention notonly to what his policies will be, but to what kind of First LadyMichelle Obama will be. Throughout the long campaign season,Michelle Robinson Obama garnered a good amount of attention, kudosand criticism about her words, actions, even her appearance, butfew people knew what kind of role she would play once she settledinto the White House. Michelle Obama In Her Own Words contains200-250 quotations arranged in approximately 75 differentcategories. Drawing on quotations from a variety of newspaper andmagazine articles, transcripts, speeches, and TV interviews andprofiles, the quotations date from Michelle’s career as ahigh-powered corporate lawyer in Chicago and her high-poweredexecutive jobs in the Chicago Mayor’s office and at the Universityof Chicago, up through the election of November 5th, 2008. Rogaklocates and organizes the funny, fascinating, inspiring (andoccasionally controversial) words of our future First Lady, ontopics such as:

• Abortion
• Affirmative Action
• Balancing career and family
• Barack’s safety
• Being compared to Jackie Onassis
• Her childhood
• Her critics
• Her fashion sense
• Hillary Clinton
• Iraq
• Racism
• Rev. Jeremiah Wright
• Sarah Palin
• Terrorism
• The “elitist” tag
• The Presidential campaign
• The role of the First Lady
• Women who have influenced her