
Michelle Obama
The First Lady in Photographs
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 22. January 2010
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-393-07747-6 (ISBN)
Description
There has never been a First Lady like her before. While there have been a slew of Obama celebrity books, none contain the message of Deborah Willis and Emily Bernard's eye-opening book. With nearly 200 compelling photographs, these two noted scholars capture Michelle Obama's dramatic transformation from working mother to First Lady, from her first tentative steps on the campaign trail to her spontaneous hug of the Queen, to her fairy-tale-like "date night" on Broadway. Not since Jacqueline Kennedy has there been a First Lady who has so enchanted America, but in her down-to-earth dealings with all Americans-schoolchildren, military families, and home gardeners alike-and in her diverse fashion taste, from J. Crew to Jason Wu, Michelle Obama is inexplicably all pearls, all business, all mother. The authors show how Michelle Obama represents the culmination of America's evolving views on women, race, motherhood, and beauty. Much more than a mere catalog of style, Michelle Obama is a remarkable pictorial story of one woman's hold on our imagination.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
150 full-color photographs
Dimensions
Height: 261 mm
Width: 205 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
870 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-07747-6 (9780393077476)
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Persons
Deborah Willis-MacArthur and Guggenheim fellow-is a celebrated author, photographer, and NYU professor who lives in New York City. Emily Bernard is the author of Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She teaches at the University of Vermont in Burlington.