Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs

This stunning, visual biography of Michelle Obama chronicles her life since becoming First Lady. Photos of her on Inauguration Day, at play with her daughters, and greeting dignitaries at the White House place the popular First Lady into a cultural and historical context.

There has never been a First Lady like her before. While there have been a slew of Obama celebrity books, by product contain the message of Deborah Willis and Emily Bernard's eye-opening book. With nearly 200 compelling photographs, these two noted scholars capture Michelle Obama's dramatic transformation from working mother to First Lady, from her first tentative steps on the campaign trail to her spontaneous hug of the Queen, to her fairy-tale-like date night on Broadway. Not since Jacqueline Kennedy has there been a First Lady who has so enchanted America, but in her down-to-earth dealings with all Americans-schoolchildren, military families, and home gardeners alike-and in her diverse fashion taste, from J. Crew to Jason Wu, Michelle Obama is inexplicably all pearls, all business, all mother. The authors show how Michelle Obama represents the culmination of America's evolving views on women, race, motherhood, and beauty. Much more than a mere catalog of style, Michelle Obama is a remarkable pictorial story of one woman's hold on our imagination.