David jason new biography of michelle obama

Michelle Obama is not who she pretends to be. In Michelle Obama , filmmaker Joel Gilbert does a deep dive into the life of the most popular woman in America and reveals one game-changing detail after another. Gilbert’s investigative journey takes him from Chicago to Princeton to Washington to Martha’s Vineyard and beyond. Along the way, he discovers that Michelle has created a cynical, highly effective, false narrative of her life story based largely on gender and race. In Chicago, Gilbert chronicles how Michelle has repeatedly run from the Black community or sold it out, much as her father did when he served as a precinct captain for the Daley Machine. Gilbert then exposes Michelle Obama’s “I hate politics” disclaimer as strategic cover for her intense lifelong political advocacy as he deconstructs Michelle’s bestselling autobiography, Becoming.

As the best-loved Democrat, Michelle has been preparing to run for President since by following the same formula as Barack did before her. This includes writing an autobiography, giving the keynote speech at the Democrat Convention, and heading up a voter registration organization. Gilbert also unveils Michelle’s psychological dark side and explains how her deep feelings of inadequacy drive her to run for the presidency. Gilbert ultimately reveals the real Michelle Obama, one very few Americans know or understand, but that all must be wary of as she seeks the highest office in the land. If she wins in , Gilbert predicts, Michelle will take orders from global elitesand chaos will follow as surely as night follows day.

First Lady of the United States from to

"First Lady Michelle Obama" redirects here. For the painting, see First Lady Michelle Obama (painting).

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (néeRobinson; born January 17, ) is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from to , being married to Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.

Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. In her early legal career, she worked at the law firm Sidley Austin where she met her future husband. She subsequently worked in nonprofits and as the associate dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago. Later, she served as vice president for community and external affairs of the University of Chicago Medical Center. Michelle married Barack in , and they have two daughters.

Obama campaigned for her husband's and presidential campaigns. She was the first African-American woman to serve as first lady. As first lady, Obama worked as an advocate for poverty awareness, education, nutrition, physical activity, and healthy eating. She has written three books including her The New York Times best selling memoir Becoming () and The Light We Carry ().

Family and education

See also: Family of Barack Obama §&#;Michelle Obama's extended family

Early life and ancestry

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson was born on January 17, , in Chicago, Illinois, to Fraser Robinson III (–), a city water plant employee and Democraticprecinct captain, and Marian Shields Robinson (–), a secretary at Spiegel's catalog store. Her mother was a full-time homemaker until Michelle entered high school.

The Robinson and Shields families trace their roots to pre-Civil War African Americans in the American South. On her father's side, she is descended from the Gullah people of South Carolina's Lowcountry region.

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Eagle-eyed fans of the new reality show Later Daters may have noticed a surprising name in the credits: executive producer Michelle Obama. The eight-episode relationship series, which hit Netflix&#;s Top 10 list after it premiered on the streamer Nov. 29, follows six Atlanta-area singles between the ages of 56 and 71 as they navigate the modern dating world. The sweet, funny and occasionally racy show from Barack and Michelle Obama&#;s production company, Higher Ground, reflects the Obamas&#; interest in making programming that speaks to a wide audience, one interested in topics well outside the world of potentially starchy or partisan political fare.

&#;It&#;s no secret that people feel like if it&#;s coming from the Obamas, that it&#;s going to be a specific thing and that maybe it&#;s not for them because of who it&#;s from,&#; says Ethan Lewis, Higher Ground&#;s senior vp nonfiction. &#;But we&#;re telling everyone&#;s story. The strategy is to develop a slate that feels broadly accessible for a really wide audience.&#;

That strategy has included scripted projects like the Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali apocalyptic thriller Leave the World Behind, which became Netflix’s No. 5 most popular movie of all time, generating million views in just over three weeks after premiering last December, and the Will Forte black comedy series Bodkin, which also broke the streamer&#;s global top 10 list. Higher Ground also produced the Academy Award-nominated documentary Crip Camp and the Emmy Award-winning Our Great National Parks, and itwon the Academy Award for best documentary feature for its first film, American Factory. 

In June, Higher Ground extended the multiyear deal it has with Netflix for its film and TV projects, and the company is also now working outside the streamer. This week it set up its first proj

Becoming by Michelle Obama. Crown, pp.

Becoming is a contemporary woman&#;s adventure told by an intelligent, funny narrator who took a leap out of her comfort zone and came out of it, with her family intact, to tell the tale.

By Helen Epstein

I began reading Michelle Obama’s best-selling memoir in hardcover but grew so intrigued by her intimate, surprisingly candid and moving narrative that I ordered the audiobook which she herself reads. Unlike First Lady memoirs by Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton, Becoming dives intrepidly into details of race, class, gender, and contemporary marriage. It is filled with feeling, but also historical and cultural frames for every phase of her life. It’s as romantic a story as Cinderella’s and as inspiring as Horatio Alger’s young adult novels were before they became a cliché: a life that begins in a second-story apartment on the South Side of Chicago and winds up in the White House.

Parts of her story have been worn smooth by years of her speeches and others have been researched and structured by a team of excellent writers, led by journalist Sara Corbett. Yet her own multi-layered voice rings through and, if you listen to the book, you hear the full tonal range of her voice &#; conversational (“I know it’s a weird thing to say but…”), sardonic (&#;In my experience, you put a suit on any half-intelligent black man and white people tended to go bonkers”), delighted (with every mention of “our girls”), and earnestly didactic (“Use school!&#;). She is aiming for a large diverse audience, including black, white, and brown readers, readers on every continent, retirees, teenagers and &#; especially &#; teenage girls. She even sings a few lines from her favorite song by Stevie Wonder. For me, a white, jaded reviewer not usually drawn to memoirs of former First Ladies, Becoming &#; despite its sappy title and misleading movie-glam cover &#; is a fascinating book and testament to the remarkable 21st century woman who wrote i