Condoleezza Rice: Difference between revisions

In February 2009, it was announced that Rice had signed a three-book deal with [[Crown Publishers]] worth at least $2.5 million. Crown reported that Rice would "combine candid narrative and acute analysis to tell the story of her time in the White House and as America's top diplomat, and her role in protecting American security and shaping foreign policy during the extraordinary period from 2001-2009."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/condoleezza-rice-agrees-three-book-deal-wbna29333317|title=Condoleezza Rice agrees to a three-book deal|date=February 22, 2009|publisher=Today}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2009/02/23/rice-crown-agree-to-3-book-deal/|title=Rice, Crown agree to 3-book deal|date=February 23, 2009|publisher=Tampa Bay Times}}</ref> In 2010, Rice released ''Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family'', an account of her upbringing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stanforddaily.com/2010/11/05/review-extraordinary-ordinary-people/|title=Review: 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People'|first=Micah|last=Siegel|date=November 5, 2010 |publisher=The Stanford Daily}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/12/rice.memoir/index.html|title=Condoleezza Rice's civil rights era memoir goes on sale|date=October 12, 2010|first=Pamela|last=Sellers|publisher=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/condoleezza-rice-reveals-details-of-first-memoir/|title=Condoleezza Rice Reveals Details of First Memoir|date=January 26, 2010|first=Dave|last=Itzkoff}}</ref> [[John McWhorter]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' summarized, "If there is a lesson from Rice’s book, it is that the civil rights revolution made it possible for an extremely talented black person (a woman, no less) to embrace a race-neutral subject and ride it into service as secretary of state, all the while thinking of herself largely as just a person."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/books/review/McWhorter-t.html|title=A Life Between|date=October 15, 2010|work=The New York Times|first=John|last=McWhorter}}</ref> In 2011, Rice wrote ''No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington'', a memoir of her time in the Bush administration.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2011-nov-04-la-et-1105-book-20111105-story.html|title=Book review: Condoleezza Rice is thorough in 'No Higher Honor'|date=November 4, 2011|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204528204577009732948841296|title=Present at the Re-creation|date=November 1, 2011|first=Stephen F.|last=Hayes|publisher=Wall Street Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rice-reflects-bush-tenure-gadhafi-memoir/story?id=14846833|title=Rice reflects on Bush tenure, Gadhafi in new memoir|date=October 30, 2011|publisher=ABC News}}</ref> In an interview with [[George Stephanopoulos]], Rice explained that she chose the title "because there really is no higher honor than serving your country" and named the Bush administration's attempts to consider "a different kind of Middle East" the hardest challenge they faced.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/full-transcript-george-stephanopoulos-and-condoleezza-rice|title=Full Transcript: George Stephanopoulos and Condoleezza Rice|date=November 2, 2011|publisher=ABC News}}</ref> Susan Chira wrote that the book "shows us two Condoleezza Rices: one, the impatient unilateralist who was national security adviser, the other the born-again diplomat who, as secretary of state, worked to repair some of the damage that had been done to American credibility by its unilateralism."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/review/no-higher-honor-a-memoir-of-my-years-in-washington-by-condoleezza-rice-book-review.html|title=Condoleezza Rice Looks Back|first=Susan|last=Chira|work=The New York Times|date=December 9, 2011}}</ref>