Full name: Condoleezza Rice: An American Life

Author: Elisabeth Bumiller Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Politics, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads

Condoleezza Rice, one of the most powerful and controversial women in the world, has until now remained a mystery behind an elegant, cool veneer. New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller peels back the layers and presents a revelatory portrait of the first black female secretary of state and President George W. Bush's national security adviser on September 11, 2001. Drawing on extensive interviews with Rice and more than 150 others, including colleagues, family members, government officials, and critics, the book relates in more intimate detail than ever before the personal voyage of a young black woman out of the segregated American South, and offers dramatic new information about the events and personalities of the Bush administration. In the process, with great insight, Bumiller tells the sweeping story of a tumultuous half-century in the nation's history. Similar books: Commander in Cheat by Rick Reilly Molly Ivins by Bill Minutaglio Chance Witness by Matthew Parris Shooting History by Jon Snow Ten Minutes from Normal by Karen Hughes Reading Obama by James T. Kloppenberg Nancy Reagan by Kitty Kelley Common Nonsense by Alexander Zaitchik I Ain't Got Time to Bleed by Jesse Ventura Tears of a Clown by Dana Milbank Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin Destiny and Power by Jon Meacham Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith The Reagan Diaries by Ronald Reagan When Character Was King by Peggy Noonan Bobby Kennedy by Larry Tye Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills Traitor to His Class by H. W. Brands