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Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power
Rodale
May 2007
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Featuring: Condelizza Rice
360 pages
ISBN: 1594863628
EAN: 9781594863622
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political | Non-Fiction Biography
In the first biography of Condoleezza Rice since her
appointment as secretary of state, award-winning Newsweek
editor Marcus Mabry explores the contradictions-personal and
political-of the most powerful black woman in the history of
American politics Condoleezza Rice is an unprecedented woman. Before becoming
the first female African-American secretary of state, she
was the first woman to be national security advisor to the
president of the United States. And before that, she was the
first woman, the first minority, and the youngest person
ever to be named provost of Stanford University. Yet for all
her ceiling-shattering accomplishments and historic rise to
prominence and power, Condi Rice remains enigmatic, even
sphinx-like, a major player on the American political scene
who has somehow escaped the in-depth personal scrutiny
characteristic of contemporary politics. Who is Condoleezza Rice? In this multilayered portrait,
Marcus Mabry penetrates the mysteries surrounding one of the
most controversial and fascinating women of our time and
explores what price she has paid for her success. While
researching this biography, Mabry interviewed her family,
friends, and neighbors from her childhood in Birmingham;
peers from her years at the University of Denver and Notre
Dame; colleagues, allies, and adversaries from Stanford and
Washington-and Condoleezza Rice herself. The author, who has
had a similar background to his subject-like her, he is
African American with roots in the South, a product of
Stanford, and a student of international relations-uses this
perspective in his interpretation of her life and work,
drawing on his personal and professional background as well
as his skills as a journalist to uncover a Condoleezza Rice
the world has never known. The result is the most
comprehensive portrait ever reported of this powerful woman.
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