Condoleezza Rice: An American Life: A Biography

Condoleezza Rice: An American Life: A Biography

Condoleezza Rice, one of most powerful and controversial women in the world, has until now remained a mystery behind an elegant, cool veneer. In this stunning new biography, New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller peels back the layers and presents a revelatory portrait of the first black female secretary of state and President George W. Bushâ€™s national security adviser on September 11, 2001. The book relates in more intimate detail than ever before the personal voyage of a young black woman out of the segregated American South and also tells the sweeping story of a tumultuous half-century in the nationâ€™s history.

In Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, we see Riceâ€™s Alabama childhood under Bull Connorâ€™s reign of terror in â€œBombingham,â€™â€™ the name given to Birmingham when it was the central battleground of the civil rights movement; her education in foreign policy under Josef Korbel, a charismatic Czech intellectual who also happened to be the father of Madeleine Albright, the only other female secretary of state in U.S. history; and Riceâ€™s confrontations with minorities and women while she was provost at Stanford University in the 1990s.

Examining the current administration, Bumiller explores in depth Riceâ€™s extraordinarily close relationship with George W. Bush, her battles with Vice President Dick Cheney, and her indirect but crucial role in the ousting of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Bumiller shows us Rice missing clues to the September 11 attacks, waging war against Saddam Hussein, and counting election returns with Karl Rove in 2004. In addition, we watch Riceâ€™s recent attempts to salvage the ruins of the Iraq policy she helped create and to avoid war with Iran.

Drawing on extensive interviews with Rice and more than 150 others, including colleagues, family members, government officials, and critics, this book offers dramatic new information about the events and personalities of the Bush administration. With great insight, Bumiller explores Riceâ€™s effectiveness as national security adviser and secretary of state, her attempts to revive classic American diplomacy, her longtime political ambitions, and her future on the world stage.
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2007-12-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400065905

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2007-12-11
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400065905

Condoleezza Rice: An American Life: A Biography

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