Condoleezza Rice : An American Life: A Biography

Elisabeth Bumiller

ISBN 10: 0812977130 / ISBN 13: 9780812977134

Editore: Random House Publishing Group, 2009

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Condoleezza Rice, one of the most powerful and controversial women in the world, has until now remained a mystery behind an elegant, cool veneer. New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller peels back the layers and presents a revelatory portrait of the first black female secretary of state and President George W. Bush's national security adviser on September 11, 2001. Drawing on extensive interviews with Rice and more than 150 others, including colleagues, family members, government officials, and critics, the book relates in more intimate detail than ever before the personal voyage of a young black woman out of the segregated American South, and offers dramatic new information about the events and personalities of the Bush administration. In the process, with great insight, Bumiller tells the sweeping story of a tumultuous half-century in the nation's history.

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• Titolo: Condoleezza Rice : An American Life: A Biography
• Editore: Random House Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0812977130
• ISBN 13: 9780812977134
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 203 L x 132 A x 25 P (millimetri) 203 millimetri di larghezza per 132 millimetri di altezza per 25 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 513 grammi

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Condoleezza Rice, one of the most powerful and controversial women in the world, has until now remained a mystery behind an elegant, cool veneer. New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller peels back the layers and presents a revelatory portrait of the first black female secretary of state and President George W. Bush’s national security adviser on September 11, 2001. Drawing on extensive interviews with Rice and more than 150 others, including colleagues, family members, government officials, and critics, the book relates in more intimate detail than ever before the personal voyage of a young black woman out of the segregated American South, and offers dramatic new information about the events and personalities of the Bush administration. In the process, with great insight, Bumiller tells the sweeping story of a tumultuous half-century in the nation’s history.

Informazioni sull'autore

Elisabeth Bumiller, a Washington reporter for The New York Times, was a Times White House correspondent from September 10, 2001, to 2006. She is the author of May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India and The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family. She wrote much of this book as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and as a transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her husband, Steven R. Weisman, and two children.