Extraordinary, ordinary people : a memoir of family / Condoleezza Rice.

Author: Rice, Condoleezza, 1954-

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Crown Archetype, c2010.

ISBN: 9780307587879
0307587878

Description: 342 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Subject: Rice, Condoleezza, 1954- Childhood and youth.
Rice, Condoleezza, 1954- Family.
African American families Alabama Birmingham.
African Americans Alabama Birmingham Biography.
Statesmen United States Biography.
Women cabinet officers United States Biography.
African American women Biography.
Birmingham (Ala.) Biography.
Birmingham (Ala.) Race relations History 20th century.

Contents: Starting early -- Rays and the Rices -- Married at last -- "Johnny, it's a girl!" -- "I need a piano!" -- My parents were teachers -- Something in the water -- School days -- Summer respite -- Turning up th heat in Birmingham -- 1963 -- Integration? -- Tuscaloosa -- Denver again -- Leaving the south behind -- Cancer intrudes -- Starting earl (again) -- College years -- Change of direcion -- "Rally, sons (and daughters) of Notre Dame" -- New start -- Lost year -- Senator Sanford's farm -- My rookie season -- Darkest moment of my life -- "The moving van is here" -- Inside the Pentagon -- Back to Stanford -- D.C. again -- "I don't think this is what Karl Marx had in mind" -- Back in California -- Learning compassion -- Finding a new president of Stanford -- Provost of the University -- Tough decisions -- Governor's campaign -- Florida -- "The Saints go marching in."