By Condoleezza Rice
From one of many world’s so much well known girls, this can be former nationwide protection consultant and Secretary of country Condoleezza Rice’s compelling tale of 8 years serving on the optimum degrees of government. In her place as America’s leader diplomat, Rice traveled virtually constantly all over the world, looking universal flooring between occasionally sour enemies, forging contract on divisive concerns, and compiling a notable checklist of achievement.
A local of Birmingham, Alabama who overcame the racism of the Civil Rights period to turn into an excellent educational and professional on overseas affairs, Rice unique herself as an consultant to George W. Bush through the 2000 presidential campaign. as soon as Bush used to be elected, she served as his leader adviser on national-security matters – a role whose tasks integrated harmonizing the connection among the Secretaries of country and Defense. It was once a task that deepened her bond with the President and eventually made her one among his closest confidantes.
With the September eleven, 2001, terrorist assaults, Rice chanced on herself on the heart of the Administration’s severe efforts to maintain the USA safe. right here, Rice describes the occasions of that harrowing day – and the tumultuous days after. No day was once ever the same. also, Rice additionally unearths new information of the debates that resulted in the battle in Afghanistan after which Iraq.
The eyes of the kingdom have been once more excited by Rice in 2004 whilst she seemed sooner than the Sep 11 fee to respond to difficult questions in regards to the country’s preparedness for – and quick reaction to – the 11th of September attacks. Her responses, it used to be in general conceded, could form the nation’s notion of the Administration’s competence through the crisis. Rice conveys simply how pressure-filled that visual appeal was once and her stunned gratitude while, in succeeding days, she was once largely saluted for her grace and forthrightness.
From that time ahead, Rice used to be aggressively wanted by means of the media and considered by way of a few because the Administration’s most desirable champion.
In 2005 Rice used to be entrusted with much more accountability whilst she used to be charged with aiding to form and hold ahead the President’s international coverage as Secretary of State. As such, she proved herself a deft crafter of strategies and negotiation aimed to include or decrease the possibility posed through America’s enemies. the following, she unearths the behind-the-scenes maneuvers that stored the world’s relationships with Iran, North Korea and Libya from collapsing into chaos. She additionally talks approximately her position as a main issue supervisor, exhibiting that at any hour -- and at a moment’s become aware of -- she was once keen to convey all events to the bargaining desk anyplace within the world.
No greater Honor takes the reader into mystery negotiating rooms the place the fates of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Lebanon frequently hung within the stability, and it attracts again the curtain on how frighteningly shut all-out conflict loomed in clashes concerning Pakistan-India and Russia-Georgia, and in East Africa.
Surprisingly candid in her value determinations of assorted management colleagues and the masses of overseas leaders with whom she dealt, Rice additionally deals the following willing perception into how heritage truly proceeds. In No greater Honor, she delivers a grasp category in statecraft -- yet constantly in a manner that unearths her crucial heat and humility, and her deep reverence for the beliefs on which the United States used to be based.
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