02737nam a2200385u 4500 505417102 OCoLC 20250710155042.0 ta 101207s2010 nyua b 001 0deng d 2010021645 9780307587879 27.00 (OCoLC)505417102 DLC DLC AJM n-us-al n-us--- E840.8.R48 A3 2010 327.730092 B 22 Rice, Condoleezza, 1954- 21557 Extraordinary, ordinary people : a memoir of family / Condoleezza Rice. 1st ed. New York : Crown Archetype, c2010. 342 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 329) and index. This volume is the personal account of American political scientist and diplomat Condoleezza Rice's (b. 1954) life and career. Rice served as Secretary of State 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 (after Colin Powell), and the second woman (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. Her memoir presents a young woman deeply attached to her devoted parents, who encouraged her at every step of her life to overcome racism, sexism, and her own personal doubts. Her roots are deep in the South, part of a family that pridefully skirted racism -- never using the racially segregated facilities or riding in the back of the bus. Her mother, Angelena, was a cultured teacher who taught her piano, while her father, John, was a Presbyterian minister and later a college administrator who, despite his Republican politics, strongly admired black radicals, developing a friendship with Stokely Carmichael. Rice presents a frank, poignant, and loving portrait of a family that maintained its closeness through cancer, death, career ups and downs, and turbulent changes in American society Rice, Condoleezza, 1954- Childhood and youth. 21558 Rice, Condoleezza, 1954- Family. 21559 African American families Alabama Birmingham. 21560 African Americans Alabama Birmingham Biography. 21561 Stateswomen United States Biography. 21562 Women cabinet officers United States Biography. 21563 African American women Biography. 21429 Birmingham (Ala.) Biography. 21564 Birmingham (Ala.) Race relations History 20th century. 21565 ddc BOOK 2964 2964 0 0 ABELJ abelj B 2016-10-26 0 B RICE 16601 2016-10-26 27.00 2016-10-26 BOOK