The certain themes that emerged . Guest no i covered obama for the Washington Post for quite a while. I was living in chicago and working for the Washington Post am i recognized Michelle Obama has led a remarkable life a trajectory which is fascinating and i felt that it was worth telling a story where she is at the center of her own narrative not just the. When i embarked on the project i very much wanted to figure out where she was coming from. This thing she was doing in the white house and what were the origins of that and that meant getting into her Family History and chicago history and the history that she had lived. Host chicagoans up being a major player in her story. Going back there and looking at the life of her father whom she called her northstar even after he had died. What was it about her parents her father in particular that gave her that outlook enter values . Guest thats right and many people will remember the 2008 campaign that she would say of her father that he i