

Rice was the first female African-American Secretary of State and the first woman to serve as National Security Advisor. 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 and "The Saints Go Marching In." Condoleezza "Condi" Rice (born November 14, 1954) is an American diplomat, political scientist, civil servant, and professor who served as the 66th United States Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009 and as the 20th United States National Security Advisor from 2001 to 2005. Chapters cover 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 Cancers 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. Includes Author's Note, A Note on Sources, Acknowledgments, and Index. Michael Collopy (Author photograph) (illustrator). The pictures on the listing page are the actual book for sale, NOT stock photos. Fine hardcover in a fine, mylar covered, unclipped dust jacket. This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told not that of an ulta-accomplished world deader but of a little girl - and a young woman - trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world, and of two exceptional parents, an extended family, and a community - that made all the difference, Illustrated. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9/11, to becoming only the second woman - and the first black woman ever - to serve as Secretary of State. Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist.
