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Notes on a Marriage: New Book on the First Couple

 
By Essence · Updated October 29, 2020
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The President and First Lady have what seems like an ideal marriage to most. However, a new book unveils some details of their union and tells a slightly different story, according to The New York Daily News. In the new book “Renegade,” about Obama’s barrier-breaking run for the presidency, author Richard Wolffe recounts a stretch in 2000 when the Obama’s marriage was a lot frostier than it appears today. Wolffe, who covered Obama’s campaign for Newsweek magazine, wrote of that, “She was angry at his selfishness and careerism; he thought she was cold and ungrateful.”–BB