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'The Obamas' author: First lady portrayed 'as a very strong woman'

By Bernie Becker - 01/15/12 03:19 PM ET

Jodi Kantor, the author of a new book on the Obamas, on Sunday pushed back against any suggestion that she had tried to portray Michelle Obama as an "angry black woman."

“Those words aren’t in the book. There’s nothing that implies that she is,” Kantor, whose book has come under strong criticism from the White House, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

“She is portrayed as a very strong woman,” she said.

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