Extraordinary, ordinary people : a memoir of family / Condoleezza Rice.

Extraordinary, ordinary people : a memoir of family / Condoleezza Rice.

By
: 
Rice, Condoleezza, 1954-

Publication Date
: 
2010

Publication Information
: 
New York : Crown Archetype Pub.,

Physical Description
: 
342 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill.

Subject Term
: 
African Americans -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- Biography.
 
Stateswomen -- United States -- Biography.
 
Women cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.
 
African American women -- Biography.

Geographic Term
: 
Birmingham (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.

Summary
: 
Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. 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.

Language
: 
English

ISBN
: 
9780307587879

General Note
: 
Includes index.


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