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  • Washington Post Books: Before Michelle, Barack Obama asked another woman to marry him. Then politics

    05/03/2017 1:02:57 PM PDT · by Seizethecarp · 61 replies
    Washington Post Book ReviewWaPo ^ | May 2, 2017 | Carlos Lozada
    It is in the personal realm that Garrow’s account is particularly revealing. He shares for the first time the story of a woman Obama lived with and loved in Chicago, in the years before he met Michelle, and whom he asked to marry him. Sheila Miyoshi Jager, now a professor at Oberlin College, is a recurring presence in “Rising Star,” and her pained, drawn-out relationship with Obama informs both his will to rise in politics and the trade-offs he deems necessary... Garrow, who received a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Martin Luther King Jr., concludes this massive new work...