Condi, The Condoleezza Rice Story

Felix, Antonia

ISBN 10: 1557045399 / ISBN 13: 9781557045393

Published by Newmarket Press, New York, NY, 2002

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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xi, [1], 259, [1] p. Illustrations. List of National Security Advisors. Major Events. Sources. Notes. Index. Condoleezza "Condi" Rice (born November 14, 1954) is an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush. Rice was the first female African-American Secretary of State, as well as the second African American secretary of state (after Colin Powell), and the second female secretary of state (after Madeleine Albright). Rice was President Bush's National Security Advisor during his first term, making her the first woman to serve in that position. Before joining the Bush administration, she was a professor of political science at Stanford University where she served as Provost from 1993 to 1999. Rice also served on the National Security Council as the Soviet and Eastern Europe Affairs Advisor to President George H.W. Bush during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Condi, The Condoleezza Rice Story
• Publisher: Newmarket Press, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557045399
• ISBN 13: 9781557045393
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cold War
  • Civil Rights

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Synopsis

The first biography on the most important woman in U.S. government today, National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, by the author of Laura: America's First Lady, First Mother.

As National Security Advisor to the president and winner of the NAACP Image Award, Condoleezza Rice has never wasted time getting where she wants to go, and for the first time, this biography tells the story of her remarkable life—from her precocious childhood to her dreams of becoming a concert pianist to her role as the president's most trusted advisor, following a distinguished career as scholar, professor, provost, and foreign policy advisor—all by the age of 47.

Condi, as she is known, was named after a musical term, con dolcezza—to play "with sweetness"—by her music-loving parents who, both educators, set forth a standard of excellence for their only child that would give her the "twice as good" edge that was necessary to be on an even standing with her white peers in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, in 1954.

Topics covered include: • A sweeping, intriguing look at the Rice family legacy, from slave owners and slaves to "evangelists of education" and finally to a prominent government figure and presidential advisor
• The big switch: why Rice changed her career goal from concert pianist to scholar
• Point-by-point look at Rice's foreign policy outlook on Russia, China, Israel, Afghanistan, and other nations

About the Author

Antonia Felix is the author of thirteen nonfiction books including the biographies Laura: America's First Lady, First Mother; Christie Todd Whitman; and Andrea Bocelli: A Celebration. She has appeared on Entertainment Tonight, CNN, Oxygen, C-SPAN, and Fox News. Felix divides her time between New York City and Kingsville, Texas.