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No Higher Honor

A Memoir of My Years in Washington

A Memoir of My Years in Washington

A Memoir of My Years in Washington

By Condoleezza Rice

By Condoleezza Rice

By Condoleezza Rice

By Condoleezza Rice

By Condoleezza Rice
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    About No Higher Honor

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the former national security advisor and secretary of state comes a “sharp and penetrating . . . reminder that foreign-policy choices facing the United States are complex and difficult, with no easy solutions” (The Washington Post).
     
    A native of Birmingham, Alabama, who overcame the racism of the civil rights era to become a brilliant academic and expert on foreign affairs, Condoleezza Rice first distinguished herself as an advisor to George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign, and eventually became one of his closest confidantes. Once he was elected, she served first as his chief advisor on national security issues and later as America’s chief diplomat. From the aftermath of September 11, 2001, when she stood at the center of the administration’s efforts to protect the nation, to her efforts as secretary of state to manage the world’s volatile relationships with North Korea, Iran, and Libya, her service to America led her to confront some of the worst crises the country has ever faced.
     
    This is her unflinchingly honest story of that remarkable time, from what really went on behind closed doors when the fates of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Lebanon often hung in the balance and how frighteningly close all-out war loomed in clashes involving Pakistan-India and Russia-Georgia, to her candid appraisal of her colleagues and contemporaries. In No Higher Honor, Condoleezza Rice delivers a master class in statecraft—but always in a way that reveals her essential warmth and humility and her deep reverence for the ideals on which America was founded.

    About No Higher Honor

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the former national security advisor and secretary of state comes a “sharp and penetrating . . . reminder that foreign-policy choices facing the United States are complex and difficult, with no easy solutions” (The Washington Post).
     
    A native of Birmingham, Alabama, who overcame the racism of the civil rights era to become a brilliant academic and expert on foreign affairs, Condoleezza Rice first distinguished herself as an advisor to George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign, and eventually became one of his closest confidantes. Once he was elected, she served first as his chief advisor on national security issues and later as America’s chief diplomat. From the aftermath of September 11, 2001, when she stood at the center of the administration’s efforts to protect the nation, to her efforts as secretary of state to manage the world’s volatile relationships with North Korea, Iran, and Libya, her service to America led her to confront some of the worst crises the country has ever faced.
     
    This is her unflinchingly honest story of that remarkable time, from what really went on behind closed doors when the fates of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Lebanon often hung in the balance and how frighteningly close all-out war loomed in clashes involving Pakistan-India and Russia-Georgia, to her candid appraisal of her colleagues and contemporaries. In No Higher Honor, Condoleezza Rice delivers a master class in statecraft—but always in a way that reveals her essential warmth and humility and her deep reverence for the ideals on which America was founded.

    About No Higher Honor

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the former national security advisor and secretary of state comes a “sharp and penetrating . . . reminder that foreign-policy choices facing the United States are complex and difficult, with no easy solutions” (The Washington Post).
     
    A native of Birmingham, Alabama, who overcame the racism of the civil rights era to become a brilliant academic and expert on foreign affairs, Condoleezza Rice first distinguished herself as an advisor to George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign, and eventually became one of his closest confidantes. Once he was elected, she served first as his chief advisor on national security issues and later as America’s chief diplomat. From the aftermath of September 11, 2001, when she stood at the center of the administration’s efforts to protect the nation, to her efforts as secretary of state to manage the world’s volatile relationships with North Korea, Iran, and Libya, her service to America led her to confront some of the worst crises the country has ever faced.
     
    This is her unflinchingly honest story of that remarkable time, from what really went on behind closed doors when the fates of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Lebanon often hung in the balance and how frighteningly close all-out war loomed in clashes involving Pakistan-India and Russia-Georgia, to her candid appraisal of her colleagues and contemporaries. In No Higher Honor, Condoleezza Rice delivers a master class in statecraft—but always in a way that reveals her essential warmth and humility and her deep reverence for the ideals on which America was founded.

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    About Condoleezza Rice

    Condoleezza Rice was the 66th US Secretary of State and the first black woman to hold that office.  Prior to that, she was the first woman to serve as National Security Advisor. She is a professor at Stanford University and cofounder… More about Condoleezza Rice

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    Condoleezza Rice was the 66th US Secretary of State and the first black woman to hold that office.  Prior to that, she was the first woman to serve as National Security Advisor. She is a professor at Stanford University and cofounder… More about Condoleezza Rice

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    Product Details

    Category: Political Figure Biographies & Memoirs | World Politics

    Paperback | $21.00
    Published by Crown
    Sep 04, 2012 | 784 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307986788

    Category: Political Figure Biographies & Memoirs | World Politics

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Crown
    Nov 01, 2011 | 784 Pages | ISBN 9780307952479

    Category: Political Figure Biographies & Memoirs | World Politics | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $30.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Nov 01, 2011 | 1708 Minutes | ISBN 9780307966988

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    Praise

    “In her memoir, NO HIGHER HONOR, Rice looks back, offering unexpected candor about her tenure as national security adviser in Bush’s first term and as secretary of state…the [book’s] moments of self-doubt and regrets are a revelation…Rice offers sharp and penetrating portraits of foreign leaders…Her memoir is a reminder that foreign-policy choices facing the United States are complex and difficult, with no easy solutions…Rice has acquitted herself well in telling her side of the story; now she awaits the judgment of history.”
    –The Washington Post

    “Rice provides a vivid account of the tumultuous years after Sept. 11, 2001…the latest in a string of memoirs emerging from Bush administration figures trying to define the history of their tenure [this book is] the most expansive record of those eight years by any of the leading participants.”
    –The New York Times

    “The fascination of Rice’s memoir, and it is fascinating, is less in the broad vision put forth for a more democratic world than in the gritty description of the way decisions were made in the White House and in the State Department as the Bush Administration sought to adapt to a universe radically changed by Al  Qaeda’s attacks on the United States in 2001.  Rice’s account of the immediate aftermath, as seen from inside the halls of the White House, is both vivid and disturbing.”
    –Newsweek

    “Condoleezza Rice has a lot in common with Henry A. Kissinger…Now, like Kissinger, Rice has written a memoir drenched in details of the daily work of diplomacy…hers is a great story.”
    –Bloomberg

    “Important…her stories [of the aftermath of 9-11] add texture to the well-known history of those days and weeks, sometimes movingly so.”
    –Wall Street Journal

    Table Of Contents

     
    Prologue
    Introduction
    1 Before the Crack in Time
    2 Honest Broker
    3 Policy Begins
    4 The Middle East
    5 Vladimir Putin
    6 “The United States Is Under Attack”
    7 War Planning Begins
    8 The War on Terror and the Home Front
    9 Trouble in Nuclear South Asia
    10 The Two-State Solution
    11 Thee World’s Most Dangerous Weapons
    12 Saddam Again
    13 Confronting the International Community with a Choice
    14 48 Hours
    15 Bush the African
    16 New Challenges in Iraq
    17 2004
    18 “Iraqis Need to Govern Themselves”
    19 Another Step Toward a Palestinian State
    20 Four More Years
    21 Secretary of State
    22 Promoting America’s Interests and Values Abroad
    23 High Mountains and Dirt
    24 The Color Revolutions Multiply
    25 Baghdad and Cairo
    26 A Heartbreaking Place Called Darfur
    27 Katrina
    28 Bringing Back the All-Nighter
    29 Can Anything Else Go Wrong?
    30 Transformational Diplomacy
    31 Building a New Relationship with India
    32 Democracy in Latin America and Beyond
    33 A Change of Leadership in Iraq
    34 Shifting Course on Iran
    35 The Middle East Plunges into War
    36 Revising the Framework for the War on Terror
    37 Iraq Spirals Downward
    38 An Explosion in Asia and a Challenge for U.S.-China Relations
    39 Playing the Last Card
    40 A Diplomatic Surge
    41 A New Approach to Latin America
    42 Improving the Daily Lives of Palestinians
    43 Iraq and the Home Front
    44 The Road to Annapolis
    45 Emergency Rule
    46 Final-Status Talks Begin
    47 A Final Year 622
    48 It Seems Like Yesterday—It Seems Like Forever
    49 Whither China?
    50 Olmert Makes an Offer
    51 Completing the Task of Building a Europe Whole, Free, and at Peace
    52 War Breaks Out in Georgia
    53 Cementing Key Relationships with Iraq and India
    54 He Lives in His Own Head
    55 One Last Chance for North Korea
    56 The Financial Crisis of 2008
    57 Mumbai
    58 One Last Chance for a Palestinian State
    Epilogue
     
    Note on Sources
    Acknowledgments
    Index

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