Posted on 03/01/2009 4:06:00 PM PST by DBCJR
Former US Secretary of State, Ms Condoleezza Rice, has reportedly signed a $2.5-million deal to write a trilogy that will chart her rise from a segregated neighbourhood in Alabama to the top ranks of the White House.
The 54-year-old Ms Rice's yet untitled first book will be a memoir of her years in the Bush administration, reported Telegraph.co.uk. “Ms Rice will combine candid narrative and acute analysis to tell the story of her time in the White House and as top di plomat of US and her role in protecting American security and shaping foreign policy during the extraordinary period from 2001-2009,” read a statement issued by the publishers, Crown, a division of Random House Inc.
Sources inside the publishing house told the newspapers that the deal is worth at least $2.5 million, with the first book scheduled to appear in the markets in 2011. The second book will be about her family, scheduled for a 2012 release, and a young-adult edition of her family book that will come out at the same time.
“The second memoir will be a poignant and instructive look” at Miss Rice's family in Alabama, where she overcame racism to achieve academic success, then political high office, said the statement.
Ms Rice, who was the country's second African American foreign policy chief after Mr Colin Powell, enjoyed public goodwill despite the unpopularity of Bush administration.
This will come in handy for the classroom during Black History Month! The kids loved “My Grandfather’s Son.”
Difference between Bambi and Condi:
Condi’s great grandmothers or grandmothers actually knew what slavery was. Bambi’s great grandmother on the other hand was killing goats for fun. His other one was too busy telling other black people to work harder on the fields.
Condi’s actually dealt with racism growing up. No, not the “He called me ‘N!gg#r’, daddy (Although you don’t ever hear that anymore, for some odd reason.. hmmm), get him!” racism that all of us blacks face, but where her father had to avoid getting lynched every day for most of his life. Barry’s experience with racism wasn’t even remotely as dangerous.
Condi is a true example of how Blacks in America have succeeded despite the ugliest part of our nation’s history. Barry on the other hand is just an African kid who took advantage of the special privileges we gave blacks. We truly overcame our racism in 2005, not 2008.
This reminds me of a saying I told my cousin but he never could get it. “Sparrows will always eat the food from the blue jay feeder”. It means when you give out something for free, don’t be surprised if there are people who try to take advantage of a free situation as much as possible using the most remote of similarities to the original situation or person to get it. Barry’s a sparrow. Condi’s a blue jay.
Good. I’m looking forward to her writings about the Bush years.
I enjoyed reading that. However, the last two chapters (about the USSC confirmation hearings) made my blood boil.
Dr. Rice has had quite a life, but three volumes seems like an opportunity for a lot of extremely boring detail. But who knows, it could be interesting. Two whopper volumes of Margaret Thatcher’s memoirs were.
She could return the scales of history to balance.
Condi is a class act.
Condi may be a class act, but what did she do? What successes can she relate? Granted she broke bread with a lot of people, but so did Oprah.
She was the provost at Stanford Univ. I’d say that’s pretty successful.
I should have made it clear that I was asking what success she had either at the NSC or State? Perhaps we will learn that she was behind the rendition program, and that would be something.
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