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Becoming
by Michelle Obama
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1524763136
- ISBN 13
- 9781524763138
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY : Crown Publishers , 2018 Crown Publishers, New York. 2018. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($32.50); slight bumping to head and tail; light rubbing to panels. Gray paper over boards with gray paper over spine with bright white lettering on the spine. Pictorial endpapers. 426 pp 8vo. This is the story of a little girl from the South Side of Chicago who went to Princeton and became a corporate lawyer and eventually the First Lady. Michelle takes the reader inside the private debate over the presidential run and the campaign. Narrating with grace, good humor, and uncommon candor, she provides a vivid behind-the-scenes account of her family's history-making launch into the global limelight as well as their live inside the White House as she comes to know her country and her county comes to know her. A clean very presentable copy.
Synopsis
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare. In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same. Becoming sold 1.4 million copies in its first week and has gone on to sell over 10 million copies. It is one of the best selling auto-biographies ever.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013998
- Title
- Becoming
- Author
- Michelle Obama
- Illustrator
- Steve Harper
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1524763136
- ISBN 13
- 9781524763138
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2018
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Michelle Obama, Michelle Robinson, First Lady, BLM, Civil Rights, LGBTQ, White House, Barack Obama, Barack Hussein Obama, Chicago, Presidency, Black Lives Matter, Community Organizer,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; LGBT Issues;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Rubbing
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
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