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Article: Married to the Candidate; Michelle Obama, her much-studied Princeton thesis and the politics of race.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 5, 2008
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MICHELLE
A Biography
By Liza Mundy
Simon & Schuster. 217 pp. $25Barack Obama and Sarah Palin belong
to the first generation of political candidates, now in their 40s,
who came of age after the modern feminist movement and, also, after
two-earner families had become the norm. Greater equality within
marriage has meant that in U.S. elections the little woman (or in
the case of Bill Clinton and Todd Palin, the big man) accompanying
the candidate must be regarded not just as a sidekick in red silk or
a nice sports jacket, waving faintly from an airplane gangway, but
as a full-blown person with opinions and a history of his or her
own. Who in a marriage today would argue that the character of ...