A Memoir of Family
by Condoleezza Rice
Recommended by Hugh Hewitt
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Rice writes a memoir that mixes personal anecdotes — her upbringing and life as a concert pianist — with inside accounts of late‑Cold War diplomacy and post‑9/11 policy making. What works best is direct, scene-by-scene recollection of meetings, decisions, and the habits that shaped a public career; useful for readers wanting primary-perspective color more than analytic depth. The main limitation is episodic, sometimes defensive narration that glosses complex controversies and can feel heavy on assertion and light on systematic evidence.
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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 911, to becoming only the second woman and the first black woman ever to s...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Politics, and Social Sciences.
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