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Michelle Obama Announces A New Memoir Her Publisher Calls 'Unusually Intimate' (Triple Bagger!)
People Magazine ^ | 2/25/18 | Sam Gillette and Sandra Sobieraj Westfall

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 it’s Nov. 13 release date—when it will be simultaneously published in 24 languages worldwide—in 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 Obama’s upcoming book suggests that it will stretch the confines of a traditional former first-lady memoir the same way Obama’s official portrait for the Smithsonian did. “Becoming is an unusually intimate reckoning from a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and 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 she’s been writing, saying primarily that she hopes it will be inspirational.

(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; barforama; michelle; michellebook; obama; releasedate
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To: rktman

“Two reporters to cover this?”

****

If Barack needed Reggie as a “body man,” then perhaps Michelle needed reporter Sam as a fluffer.


41 posted on 02/25/2018 12:40:22 PM PST by peyton randolph (Socialism Lite is still Socialism)
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To: silverleaf

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.


42 posted on 02/25/2018 12:42:29 PM PST by ThankYouFreeRepublic (An)
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To: peyton randolph
🤔. Some people don't know the meaning of that term. And, I ain't sayin' nuthin'. 🎬🎥📹👹🍿🍻🇺🇸
43 posted on 02/25/2018 12:47:21 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Leep

Michelle Obama Announces A New Memoir Her Publisher Calls ‘Unusually Intimate”

Scary words...I can only imagine the stank *unusually intimate”.


44 posted on 02/25/2018 12:48:05 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: peyton randolph
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

What a queer liddo beech he is.

45 posted on 02/25/2018 12:48:57 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Huskrrrr

“A new Olympic event: Hurling”

Events held every weekend on college campuses.


46 posted on 02/25/2018 12:49:28 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: apocalypto

“This portrait does not look like Michelle Obama and makes her look bland and lifeless.”

Stone cold and soulless.


47 posted on 02/25/2018 12:51:14 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker
Anyone who wants to get “intimate” in any way, shape or form with this hermaphrodite former “Worst Lady” is sick.
48 posted on 02/25/2018 12:51:33 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: BenLurkin

“Hussein and Mrs. Hussein sure do think highly of themselves.”

Sure, we all go out and hire artists to capture our wonderfulness for posterity.


49 posted on 02/25/2018 12:53:01 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Sacajaweau

“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.


50 posted on 02/25/2018 12:56:53 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: wardaddy

“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.


51 posted on 02/25/2018 12:59:51 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

You’d scowl too if you felt all the hatred and racism many of them feel. Losers.


52 posted on 02/25/2018 1:00:59 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom


53 posted on 02/25/2018 1:01:26 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (The only trannie I want to see is a Muncie 4 Speed M-22 Rock Crusher)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

She looks a whole lot better than that portrait.
The portrait makes her look dead, frankly


54 posted on 02/25/2018 1:02:03 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

YAWN


55 posted on 02/25/2018 1:03:29 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: wardaddy

“Think Winnie Mandela ....”

Don’t piss her off or she is likely to put a couple of Firestones around your neck.


56 posted on 02/25/2018 1:03:42 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Trillian
It will be required reading in schools that are run by crazy people.

The LBTQXYZ teachers will love it!
57 posted on 02/25/2018 1:05:00 PM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Bonemaker

I am attempting to turn off my imagination.


58 posted on 02/25/2018 1:05:28 PM PST by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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To: Bonemaker

59 posted on 02/25/2018 1:13:56 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

She has some front !

I’ll wager his book never sees light of day. Both Obama’s will be jailed by the time this is due our


60 posted on 02/25/2018 1:15:04 PM PST by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President)
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