Michelle: Her First Year as First Lady

by Robin Givhan

This commemorative book is a photographic journal that covers Michelle Obama’s causes, style, and involvement with government and the community throughout her first year and how she has been working toward changing the American image the world over. From her first dance with the new president to her organic vegetable garden, the American people get an inside look and an unparalleled portrait of the new first lady as she makes the White House her home and the position her own.

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

ROBIN GIVHAN is Washington Post's senior critic-at-large, writing about politics, race, and the arts. Previously, she covered the fashion industry as a business, as a cultural institution, and as pure pleasure. She is the Pulitzer Prize winner for criticism and author of The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History. In addition to the Post, where she has also covered Michelle Obama, Givhan has worked at Newsweek/Daily Beast, Vogue, and the Detroit Free Press.