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Extraordinary, Ordinary People
A Memoir of Family
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This is the story of Condoleezza Rice--her early years growing up in the hostile environment of Brimingham, Alabama; her rising in the ranks at Stanford University to become the university's second-in-command and an expert in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs; and finally, in 2000, her appointment
… More »This is the story of Condoleezza Rice--her early years growing up in the hostile environment of Brimingham, Alabama; her rising in the ranks at Stanford University to become the university's second-in-command and an expert in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs; and finally, in 2000, her appointment as the first black woman ever to serve as Secretary of State.
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Imprint:
New York : - Crown Archetype
Pages:
342
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9780307587879, 0307587878
Language:
English
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Starting early -- The Rays and the Rices -- Married at last -- "Johnny, it's a girl!" -- "I need a piano!" -- My parents were teachers -- Something in the water -- School days -- Summer respite -- Turning up the heat in Birmingham -- 1963 -- Integration? -- Tuscaloosa -- Denver again -- Leaving the South behind -- Cancer intrudes -- Starting early (again) -- College years -- A change of direction -- "Rally, sons (and daughters) of Notre Dame" -- A new start -- A lost year -- Senator Stanford's farm -- My rookie season -- The darkest moment of my life -- "The moving van is here" -- Inside the Pentagon -- Back to Stanford -- D.C. again -- "I don't think this is what Karl Marx had in mind" -- Back in California -- Learning compassion -- Finding a new president for Stanford -- Provost of the university -- Tough decisions -- The governor's campaign -- Florida -- "The saints go marching in".
Starting early -- The Rays and the Rices -- Married at last -- "Johnny, it's a girl!" -- "I need a piano!" -- My parents were teachers -- Something in the water -- School days -- Summer respite -- Turning up the heat in Birmingham -- 1963 -- Integration? -- Tuscaloosa -- Denver again -- Leaving the South behind -- Cancer intrudes -- Starting early (again) -- College years -- A change of direction -- "Rally, sons (and daughters) of Notre Dame" -- A new start -- A lost year -- Senator Stanford's farm -- My rookie season -- The darkest moment of my life -- "The moving van is here" -- Inside the Pentagon -- Back to Stanford -- D.C. again -- "I don't think this is what Karl Marx had in mind" -- Back in California -- Learning compassion -- Finding a new president for Stanford -- Provost of the university -- Tough decisions -- The governor's campaign -- Florida -- "The saints go marching in".
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Condoleezza Rice
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342 p. , [16] p. of plates :,ill. (some col.) ;,25 cm.
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Add a CommentCondoleezza was born in 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama. She was the only child of a pastor and a teacher who valued education highly and tried to give their daughter every possible opportunity. She feels the controlled environment in which she and her black friends were raised was an asset as it sheltered them from the segregation going on around her. Family, school, church and community were tightly knit and very supportive. As a young teen, Condoleezza moved to Denver, Colorado and continued to excel this time in a quite different environment. The book is well written with interesting side stories and insights into her accomplished life as Provost of Stanford University, first woman to serve as National Security Advisor and first black woman to be Secretary of State. Reviewed by DS
Pedestrian writing and an unwillingness to expose herself emotionally limit this memoir's appeal. Rice is proud of her hard working, conservative parents, but pride barely masks the disdain and distance she feels for the less exalted. Interesting how often she refers to her family's love of the "finer things": Italian purses and handbags, classical music, ice skating ; seemingly equating bourgeois pretension with moral worth.
Very interesting life - particularly growing up in the segregated south. Another main theme about how her parents high expectations influenced her also makes for great discussion.