
Condoleezza Rice
Stateswoman
Janet Hubbard-Brown(Author)
Chelsea House Publishers
Published on 30. April 2008
Book
Hardback
113 pages
978-0-7910-9715-1 (ISBN)
Description
In 1954, Condoleezza Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama, a city that Martin Luther King called the ""most segregated city in America"" in 1963. Rice's middle-class, college-educated parents instilled in their only child a sense that she could do anything if she put her mind to it, but that she would have to make sure that she was ""twice as good"" as whites in all her achievements. Rice became an accomplished pianist, student, and ice skater before heading to college at the University of Denver and graduate school at Stanford University. Along the way, she made connections with powerful statesmen, paving the way for her later career of ""firsts"" in politics. She was the first female provost at Stanford University in California, the first black female national security advisor, and the first black female secretary of state. ""Condoleezza Rice: Stateswoman"" tells her life story, one of perseverance and the pursuit of excellence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Broomall
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
Young adult
Illustrations
full-colour & black-&-white photographs, sidebars, chronology, further reading & web sites, index
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 172 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
489 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7910-9715-1 (9780791097151)
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Person
Janet Hubbard-Brown has written numerous books for children and young adults, including Chaucer, Hernando de Soto and His Expeditions Across the Americas, and The Labonte Brothers, for Chelsea House. She is a regular contributor to Vermont Magazine. She also teaches fiction, and is a freelance editor in Fayston, Vermont.