《成为》简介:
当米歇尔·罗宾逊还是个小女孩的时候,她的世界还只限于芝加哥南城。那时,他们一家租住在位于二楼的小公寓里,米歇尔和哥哥克雷格共用一间卧室,他们还常常去公园里玩传球游戏。在父亲弗雷泽·罗宾逊、母亲玛丽安·罗宾逊的教导下,米歇尔养成了直率敢言、无所畏惧的性格。然而,生活很快就 将她带向更远的地方:在普林斯顿大学,她第一次体会到作为班里唯一的黑人女生是怎样的感觉;在全玻璃幕墙的办公大厦,她成为一名杰出的公司法律师,也是在那里,一个夏日的早晨,一位名叫贝拉克·奥巴马的法学院学生出现在她的办公室,打破了她人生的所有精心规划。
米歇尔·奥巴马在书中首次公开描述了她的婚姻生活,尤其是她与贝拉克·奥巴马结婚的早些年,她是如何在丈夫政治生涯的快速上升期寻求职场与家庭间的平衡的。她向我们展露了他们二人关于贝拉克要不要参加美国总统竞选的私下争论,以及她在他竞选期间所扮演的既备受欢迎又饱受指责的角色。米歇尔以优雅、诙谐、坦率的口吻,为我们生动地讲述了她的家庭受到世界瞩目 以及八年白宫生活的幕后故事。在此过程中,她更加深入地了解她的国家,而美国民众也逐渐了解她。
从爱荷华州不起眼的厨房到白金汉宫的舞厅,从那些令人心碎的伤痛到惊人的抗逆力,《成为》将带我们认识一位实现历史性突破的人物,带我们走进她的灵魂深处,见证她如何为了活得真实而努力,如何为了实现一系列更高的理想而贡献个人的力量、发出自己的声音。米歇尔坦诚而又大胆地向我们讲述了她的人生故事,并向我们抛出一个问题:我们是谁?我们想要成为怎样的人?
《成为》摘录:
These were women who knew their own voices and were unafraid to use them. They could be humorous and humble when the moment called for it, but they were unfazed by blowhards and didn't second-guess the power of their own points of view. Also, improtantly, they were working moms. My considerable blessings in life were now causing a kind of psychic whiplash. I'd been raised to be confident and see no limits, to believe I could go after and get absolutely anything I wanted. And I wanted everything. Because, as suzanne would say, why not? I wanted to live with the hat-tossing, independent-career-woman zest of Mary Tyler Moore, and at the same time I gravitated toward the stabilizing, self-sacrificing,seemingly bland normalcy of being a wife and mother. I wanted to have a work life and a home ...
《成为》目录:
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Part I 成为我
Part II 成为我们
Part III 成为更多
后记
致谢
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