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Q: Sasha and Malia Obama commemorated their last night as residents of the White House by engaging in a very typical teenage activity: throwing a pizza and slumber party with friends! 
  
 Michelle Obama revealed the inside information during a speech at the American Institute of Architecture last Thursday. 
  
 During a question and answer session, the former first lady answered questions about her time at the White House, including how her daughters spent their last days at their former home. 
  
 “They had a sleepover, because of course on Inauguration Day, because my girls are so normal, they’re like, ‘Well, eight girls are gonna be sleeping here because it’s our last time, and we want pizza, and we want nuggets.’ And it’s like, really?” she told the audience. 
  
  
  
  
  
 She also shared that Malia, 18, and Sasha, 15, found it difficult to leave the only home they had known for the last eight years. 
  
 “So that moment of transition, right before the doors opened and we welcomed in the new family, our kids were leaving out the back door in tears, saying goodbye to people,” she said. 
  
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 Mrs. Obama added that she did try to keep her composure, though, because she knew any tears that she shed would be misconstrued. 
  
 “I didn’t want to have tears in my eyes because people would swear I was crying because of the new president,” she quipped. 
  
 Obama shared a small insight into her post-White House life with the audience, saying, “Friends are surprised I answer the door now.” 
  
 She also reiterated that she has no interest in running for office. 
  
 “I wouldn’t ask my children to do this again,” she said. 
  
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 The Making of Barack Obama 
  
 By David J. Garrow 
  
 1,460 pages. William Morrow. $45. 
  
 “Rising Star,” the voluminous 1,460-page biography of Barack Obama by David J. Garrow, is a dreary slog of a read: a bloated, tedious and — given its highly intemperate epilogue — ill-considered book that is in desperate need of editing, and way more exhausting than exhaustive. 
  
 Many of the more revealing moments in this volume will be familiar to readers of Obama’s own memoir, “Dreams From My Father”; a host of earlier books about Obama and his family; and myriad profiles of the former president that have appeared in newspapers and magazines over the years. Garrow has turned up little that’s substantially new — save for identifying and interviewing an old girlfriend from Obama’s early Chicago years, who claims that by 1987, “he already had his sights on becoming president.” 
  
 In the absence of thoughtful analysis or a powerful narrative through line, Garrow’s book settles for barraging the reader with a cascade of details — seemingly in hopes of creating a kind of pointillist picture. The problem is that all these data points never connect to form an illuminating portrait; the book does not open out to become the sort of resonant narrative that Robert A. Caro and Ron Chernow have pioneered, in which momentous historical events are deftly recreated, and a subject’s life is situated in a time and a place. Instead, Garrow has expended a huge amount of energy — his bibliography, including interviews with more than a thousand people, runs to 35 pages — on giving us minutely detailed accounts of early chapters of Obama’s life, like his years at Harvard Law School, his time in Chicago as a community organizer, and his work in the Illinois State Senate. Garrow gets to Obama’s presidency only in an epilogue. 
  
 Image Barack Obama as a Harvard student in 1990. Credit Joe Wrinn/Harvard University, via Associated Press 
  
 While the Chicago chapter sheds valuable light on Obama’s connection with black residents and his developing sense of vocation, many of the other sections that try to chronicle his day-to-day life feel extraneous and absurdly long-winded, as if Garrow wanted to include every last scrap of information he’d unearthed. Are we really interested in what numerous Obama classmates, colleagues and passing acquaintances remember about his personality — that he struck them as cool or friendly, arrogant or voluble, cheerful or detached? Do we really want to read repetitious discussions about his cigarette consumption and poker-playing habits? |||||
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At 1,460 pages, David J. Garrow's new biography of Barack Obama is no quick read, including details down to the student evaluations he received while teaching at the University of Chicago. Rising Star paints Obama as a man making calculated choices in the course of a lifelong pursuit of the presidency. Among those, Garrow writes, is his decision to break off a relationship with Sheila Miyoshi Jager, a woman he loved in the late 1980s and to whom he proposed marriage, though her parents didn't approve. Garrow sees race as the central issue in their failed relationship—but not Obama's race. Jager, of Japanese and Dutch descent, didn't seem to suit Obama's need to "fully identify as African American" in order to pursue his "calling," Garrow writes, noting a non-black spouse was seen as a liability in Chicago politics. But apart from the "bitter musings" of an ex, "Garrow has turned up little that's substantially new," Michiko Kakutani writes in a review at the New York Times, calling the book "a dreary slog of a read" that is "way more exhausting than exhaustive." It's "as if Garrow wanted to include every last scrap of information he'd unearthed" from interviews conducted with more than a thousand people, she adds. At the Washington Post, Carlos Lozada agrees, noting "at times Garrow delivers information simply because he has it." But Lozada notes Garrow also adds some "deliciously small-bore" details—painting the Illinois statehouse as a place of adultery (not on Obama's part) and poker games, for instance—even if the presidential part of his legacy is rushed in "a clunky and tacky epilogue." The book is out Tuesday. (Here's how Sasha and Malia spent their last night in the White House.)