In addition to others we have already thanked, we wish also to express our gratitude to Bruce Parrott, Anatoliy Cherniaev, the Hoover Library staff, and then-anonymous reviewers for their comments on earlier drafts of the chapters on ...
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In this book, Rice explains what these epochal events teach us about democracy.
The personal story of the former Secretary of State traces her childhood in segregated Alabama, describes the influence of people who shaped her life and pays tribute to her parents' characters and sacrifices. Reprint. A best-selling book.
The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role.
This work provides an analysis of the moves and manoeuvres that brought an end to the Cold War division of Europe.
A former national security advisor and secretary of state offers the compelling story of her eight years serving at the highest levels of government, including the difficult job she faced in the wake of 9/11.
"A deeply researched international history of how a divided world ended and our present one was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great time of choosing." --Back cover.
This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl--and a young woman--trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world, of two exceptional parents, and ...
Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Parents and Me is a fascinating and inspirational story for young people, adapted from Condoleeza Rice’s adult sensation Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family.
Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Parents and Me is a fascinating and inspirational story for young people, adapted from Condoleeza Rice’s adult sensation Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family.
This is her unflinchingly honest story of that remarkable time, from what really went on behind closed doors when the fates of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Lebanon often hung in the balance and how frighteningly close all-out war ...
... no longer govern Palestinians and concessions were required. That would mean that there could be no “greater Israel,” she conceded. Then she spoke movingly of how hard it was for her to say it since her father's headstone was engraved ...
From one of the world's most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government.