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Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait of the most dynamic couple in politics today: Michelle, the highly organized, sometimes intimidating, list-making pragmatist; and Barack, the introspective political charmer who shoots for the stars. Michelle's story carries all the achievements and lingering pain of the post-civil rights era. She grew up on the south side of Chicago, in a neighborhood rocked by white flight....
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This book tells the story of the author's grandmother, Eunice Hunton Carter, a granddaughter of slaves, graduated from Smith College in 1921, Fordham law school in 1932, to become one of the most famous black women in America only 10 years later. When special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey selected 20 lawyers to help him clean up New York City's underworld, she was the only member of his team who was not a white male. Without the strategy she devised,...
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"Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated...
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