BOOK REVIEW : A candid Michelle

Michelle Obama memoir 'Becoming'. The former first lady cuts loose, shrugs off the fame and offers us her story in an intimate manner. PHOTO | SCOTT OLSON | AFP | GETTY IMAGES

History has proven over and over again that the place of the wives of great men is often in the shadows of their husbands.

Many famous men, from Abraham Lincoln to Napoleon Bonaparte and even William Shakespeare, are widely written about.