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Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family
by Condoleezza Rice
New Book Shelf -- E 840.8 R48 A3 2010

Condoleezza Rice, U.S. secretary of state under George W. Bush, looks back on her grandparents and parents, then moves forward through her own life up to the 2000 election. Some of the most moving parts are those relating to her early family life in Birmingham. Rice was a child during the height of the Civil Rights Movement while living in staunchly segregated Alabama. She knew the little girls killed in the 16th Street Church bombing and witnessed much of the violence of that time.

The former secretary of state Rice only briefly treats her tenure during the second Bush administration but she also writes about her swept into Washington Republican politics by Colin Powell and others, and she sketches the "wild ride" accompanying the Soviet Union's demise.


Check out, Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family
available now in the library on the New Book Shelf New Book Shelf E 840.8 R48 A3 2010