Condoleeza Rice will sign Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family
Former secretary of state Rice briefly treats her tenure during the second Bush administration in favor of a straightforward, reverential chronicle of her upbringing in the segregated south. Dr. Rice acknowledges the complicated, intertwined history of blacks and whites in America, which lent a lightening of skin to her forebears that was looked upon favorably at the time. Her father, John Wesley Rice Jr., came from a family of well-educated itinerant preachers in Louisiana, while the family of her mother, Angelena Ray, were Birmingham, Ala., landowners; both were teachers at Fairfield Industrial High School and determined to live "full and productive lives" in Birmingham, despite the blight of segregation. Cocooned in an educational and musical environment, Dr. Rice was a high-achieving only child. Yet the encroaching racial tension broke open in Birmingham in the form of store boycotts, bombings, and demonstrations. Eventually, the family moved to Denver, where Dr. Rice attended university, majoring first in piano then political science. Swept into Washington politics by Colin Powell and others, she records a thrilling, inspiring life of achievement.
- Street:
- The Bookworm
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- 8702 Pacific St
- City:
- Omaha ,
- Province:
- Nebraska
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- Country:
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