Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor is an edited anthology that explores the persona and speech-making of the country s first African American first lady. The result of these thought-provoking essays is an interdisciplinary text that explores the First Lady from a rhetorical and cultural point of view. Authors analyze her Democratic National Convention speeches, her brand as First Lady, her communication from her latest trip to Africa, her agenda rhetoric in Let s Move and Reach Higher, and her coming out as a Black feminist intellectual when she spoke at Maya Angelou s memorial...