“Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Michelle’s friends, family, former co-workers and classmates, numerous detractors and one interview with Michelle, Mundy supplies a deeply reported, balanced portrait of the woman making history alongside Barack Obama.” —Jeanne Kolker, Wisconsin State Journal
“Liza Mundy’s sane and realistic biography of Michelle Obama implicitly acknowledges the new, more serious status of a presidential spouse.” —Amy Wilentz, The Washington Post
“Mundy also offers delightful stories about the Obama’s family life. Readers who want reassurance that Michelle Obama is up to the job of First Lady and those who just want to know more about her won’t be disappointed.” —Jill Ortner, Library Journal
“Liza Mundy describes these sessions in her new book, Michelle: A Biography — an enormously valuable source for the context of Michelle’s life.” —Charlotte Hays, The Weekly Standard
“Liza Mundy, who covers politics for The Washington Post, describes in her timely and informative biography a complicated, often-ambivalent, and always independent woman who is quite different from her husband.” —Chuck Leddy, The Boston Globe
“Mundy lays out a clear and convincing story of a little girl from a hardworking black family who becomes wife and partner to a man poised to be president. Mundy deals with the overfamiliarity of the story by filling in the blanks of Michelle’s life.”
—Douchlas C. Lyons, South Florida Sun Sentinal
“Michelle leaves readers with a sense of Michelle Obama as a complicated, tough and witty woman.” —Harry Levins, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“This book seems to dig a little deeper than you’d get in a fluff-piece magazine article.”
—Terri Schlichenmeyer, San Jose Mercury News