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<p><P>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, <i>New York Times</i> reporter Elisabeth Bumiller peels back the layers and presents a revelatory portrait of the first black female secretary of state and President George W. Bush&#8217;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 nation&#8217;s history.<br><br>In <i>Condoleezza Rice&#58; An American Life</i>, we see Rice&#8217;s Alabama childhood under Bull Connor&#8217;s reign of terror in &#8220;Bombingham,&#8217;&#8217; 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 Rice&#8217;s confrontations with minorities and women while she was provost

Author

Bumiller, Elisabeth

Publisher

Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812977134

Subjects

Military, History, Biography

Rating

4.3 / 5 (58 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14