Condoleezza Rice (play /ˌkɒndəˈliːzə/ kon-də-lee-zə; born November 14, 1954) is an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush. Rice was the first African-American woman secretary of state, as well as the second African American (after Colin Powell), and the second woman (after Madeleine Albright). Rice was President Bush's National Security Advisor during his first term, making her the first woman to serve in that position. Before joining the Bush administration, she was a professor of political science at Stanford University where she served as Provost from 1993 to 1999. Rice also served on the National Security Council as the Soviet and East European Affairs Advisor to President George H.W. Bush during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification.
The memoir comes on the heels of at least two accounts of George W. Bush’s White House that have been critical of Rice’s role in the administration – former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s and former Vice President Dick Cheney’s, which is due out on Tuesday.
Cheney “faults” Rice “for naïveté in the efforts to forge a nuclear weapons agreement with North Korea,” The New York Times reported Thursday after obtaining a copy of his book.
Rice’s book will detail her experiences during the Sept. 11 terror attacks and their aftermath, and “also reveals new details about the contentious debates in the lead-up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,” Crown said. The book also “reveals the behind-the-scenes maneuvers that kept the world’s relationships with Iran, North Korea, and Libya from collapsing into chaos.”
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