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Condoleezza Rice

Biography

Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice is the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, and a professor of political science at Stanford University. Rice was the second woman and first African American woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State and the first woman to serve as national security adviser.

Condoleezza Rice

Books by Condoleezza Rice

Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
by Condoleezza Rice - Nonfiction, Political Science

From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history. As a child, she was an eyewitness to a third awakening of freedom, when her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, became the epicenter of the civil rights movement for black Americans. In this book, Rice explains what these epochal events teach us about democracy. At a time when people around the world are wondering whether democracy is in decline, Rice shares insights from her experiences as a policymaker, scholar and citizen, in order to put democracy's challenges into perspective.

No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington
by Condoleezza Rice - History, Nonfiction, Politics

Having written a bestselling memoir of her upbringing, EXTRAORDINARY, ORDINARY PEOPLE, Rice now follows up with the long-anticipated chronicle of her years in the Bush administration as national security adviser and secretary of state.