Extraordinary, Ordinary People by Condoleezza Rice

Many years later, Granddaddy would say that the. Subscribe 23K views 10 years ago Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discusses her book, 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family,' with Ambassador Nicholas Burns. ?But until she was 25 she never learned to swim.?Not because she wouldn't have loved to, but because when she was a little girl in Birmingham, Alabama, Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor decided he'd rather shut down the city's pools than give black citizens access.?Throughout the 1950's, Birmingham's black middle class largely succeeded in insulating their children from the most corrosive effects of racism, providing multiple support systems to ensure the next generation would live better than the last. Fearing for his life, he ran away and, later, found himself sitting in a train station with one token in his pocket in the wee hours of the morning. 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. One grapples for an adjective to describe her personality, even after reading. Unethnic, for one, but shading into outright ineffability. Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family By Condoleezza Rice Crown Publishers 352 pp., 27 Extraordinary, Ordinary People Condoleezza Rice’s memoir is largely a loving tribute.

Read Or Download Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family By Condoleezza Rice Full Pages.Ĭondoleezza 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 9-11, to becoming only the second woman - and the first black woman ever - to serve as Secretary of State. Rice’s public self-presentation is distinctly impersonal.

Extraordinary, Ordinary People by Condoleezza Rice