Shoshana emanuel biography of michaels
Interview by David Bernstein
Photograph: Jeff Sciortino
Rahm’s big brother at a childhood haunt: the Chicago Cultural Center
When you first approached your family with the idea of writing Brothers Emanuel (published by Random House on March 26), what did they say?
My [three adult] daughters—they only see the downsides: “Oh, it’s gonna be public.” What they didn’t also see was [that] there was at least one other book proposal floating around to do a biography of us, unauthorized.
So that was going to be done sooner or later.
Rahm Emanuel Biography, Life & Interesting Facts Revealed
Better that we control it and get the story out as we remember it. Whatever anyone else does is going to be not as accurate.
You’re an oncologist, a bioethicist, and a national expert on health care policy. Was it tough for you to put your family on the couch?
No. We needed to be on the couch for many years. I mean, I just turned [Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, is 53; Ari Emanuel, a Hollywood Ari Emanuel Siblings: Meet Rahm Emanuel, Ezekiel J Emanuel ...
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