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Educated
by Tara Westover
A woman raised off-grid in Idaho, who first set foot in a classroom at seventeen and kept going to Cambridge.
Biography & Memoir
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
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From the South Side of Chicago to the White House, told in her own voice.
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- Biography & Memoir
- Audience
- Adult
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- Memoir
- Politics
- Family
About the book
Obama's memoir covers childhood, law, marriage, motherhood and eight years of public life, with unusual candour about the cost of each.
Why we recommend it
Warm, specific and far more personal than most political memoirs.
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