TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rice,Condoleezza
TI  - Extraordinary, ordinary people: a memoir of family 
SN  - 9780307587879
AV  - E840.8.R48 A3 2010
U1  - 327.730092B 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Crown Archetype
KW  - Rice, Condoleezza,
KW  - African American families
KW  - Alabama
KW  - Birmingham
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Biography
KW  - Stateswomen
KW  - United States
KW  - Women cabinet officers
KW  - African American women
KW  - Birmingham (Ala.)
KW  - Race relations
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 329) and index
N2  - 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

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