Posted on 02/25/2018 11:54:57 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
Former First Lady Michelle Obama announced the title of her hotly anticipated first memoir, Becoming, and its Nov. 13 release datewhen it will be simultaneously published in 24 languages worldwidein a statement to PEOPLE on Sunday. Writing Becoming has been a deeply personal experience, Obama says. It has allowed me, for the very first time, the space to honestly reflect on the unexpected trajectory of my life how a little girl from the South Side of Chicago found her voice and developed the strength to use it to empower others.
The yet-unreleased book jacket portrait of the author, whose first book, the 2012 American Grown focused on her White House kitchen garden and nutrition initiatives as first lady, was taken by celebrity portrait photographer Miller Mobley, who gave People an exclusive preview from one of his shoots with Obama, 54.
In statement from Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House, the publisher of Obamas upcoming book suggests that it will stretch the confines of a traditional former first-lady memoir the same way Obamas official portrait for the Smithsonian did. Becoming is an unusually intimate reckoning from a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectationsand whose story inspires us to do the same, the publisher said.
Obama, whose husband, former president Barack Obama is writing his presidential memoir (for an expected 2019 release), will promote Becoming on a U.S. and international book tour, the publisher said, adding that 1 million books will be donated in the Obamas name to the educational nonprofit program called First Book.
In her limited number of public appearances since leaving the White House, Obama has given some hints about the book shes been writing, saying primarily that she hopes it will be inspirational.
(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...
“Two reporters to cover this?”
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If Barack needed Reggie as a “body man,” then perhaps Michelle needed reporter Sam as a fluffer.
I remember one speech she made on a national stage during the race against Romney and she made much of her hero-father than she did of her husband, who as we all know, what picked for her because Bambam was doing fellas on the download and they needed some as his beard for political cover, someone undesirable to others and who had an equal measure of affirmative action cred.
Michelle Obama Announces A New Memoir Her Publisher Calls ‘Unusually Intimate”
Scary words...I can only imagine the stank *unusually intimate”.
What a queer liddo beech he is.
“A new Olympic event: Hurling”
Events held every weekend on college campuses.
“This portrait does not look like Michelle Obama and makes her look bland and lifeless.”
Stone cold and soulless.
“Hussein and Mrs. Hussein sure do think highly of themselves.”
Sure, we all go out and hire artists to capture our wonderfulness for posterity.
“The portraits in this collection are supposed to be real life portraits....not carnival etchings.”
It is cartoonish...the artist attempted to make her appear to actually be thinking.
“Lots black women do not much cotton to white folks especially white males”
Hmm, I’ve noticed that in the grocery store lately...white women smile, black women either no acknowledgement or a scowl.
You’d scowl too if you felt all the hatred and racism many of them feel. Losers.
She looks a whole lot better than that portrait.
The portrait makes her look dead, frankly
YAWN
“Think Winnie Mandela ....”
Don’t piss her off or she is likely to put a couple of Firestones around your neck.
I am attempting to turn off my imagination.
She has some front !
Ill wager his book never sees light of day. Both Obamas will be jailed by the time this is due our
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