Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor. Signed First Edition Hardcover Book/DJ. Good!

Description: Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor. 2011. Crown Publishing, ISBN 978-0-307-58786-2. Hardcover First Edition in Dust Jacket. Signed by the author in black marker on a Freed-Hardeman University plate on full title page. Stated first edition and full number line on copyright page. Book is in good condition. Text block good, no markings or writings other than the author's signature. Dust jacket good, slight bends to top of matte jacket and light scuffing on back bottom of jacket. Book has been dropped with a large bump to the spine at bottom back, and some slight wrinkling to the back inside pastedown and to jacket at spine foot. Spine remains tight, appears unread. Color photographs remain very good, shiny and clear. Pictures included are of the actual book being offered for sale. Even with some spine damage, a very nice, signed, reading copy. From one of the world's most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America's chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes bitter enemies, forging agreement on divisive issues, and compiling a remarkable record of achievement. A native of Birmingham, Alabama. who overcame the racism of the Civil Rights era to become a brilliant academic and expert on foreign affairs, Rice distinguished herself as an advisor to George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign. Once Bush was elected, she served as his chief adviser on national-security issues, a job whose duties included harmonizing the relationship between the Secretaries of State and Defense. It was a role that deepened her bond with the President and ultimately made her one of his closest confidantes. With the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Rice found herself at the center of the Administration's intense efforts to keep America safe. Here, Rice describes the events of that harrowing day and the tumultuous days after. No day was ever the same.Additionally, Rice also reveals new details of the debates that led to the war in Afghanistan and then Iraq. The eyes of the nation were once again focused on Rice in 2004 when she appeared before the 9-11 Commission to answer tough questions regarding the country's preparedness for and immediate response to the 9-11 attacks. Her responses, it was generally conceded, would shape the nation's perception of the Administration's competence during the crisis. Rice conveys just how pressure-filled that appearance was and her surprised gratitude when, in succeeding days, she was broadly saluted for her performance. From that point forward, Rice was aggressively sought after by the media and regarded by some as the Administration's most effective champion. In 2005 Rice was entrusted with even more responsibility when she was charged with helping to shape and carry forward the President's foreign policy as Secretary of State. As such, she proved herself a deft crafter of tactics and negotiation aimed to contain or reduce the threat posed by America's enemies. Here, she reveals the behind-the-scenes maneuvers that kept the world's relationships with Iran, North Korea and Libya from collapsing into chaos. She also talks about her role as a crisis manager, showing that at any hour and at a moment's notice she was willing to bring all parties to the bargaining table anywhere in the world. No Higher Honor takes the reader into secret negotiating rooms where the fates of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Lebanon often hung in the balance, and it draws back the curtain on how frighteningly close all-out war loomed in clashes involving Pakistan-India and Russia-Georgia, and in East Africa. Surprisingly candid in her appraisals of various Administration colleagues and the hundreds of foreign leaders with whom she dealt, Rice also offers here keen insight into how history actually proceeds. In No Higher Honor, she 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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Signed By: Author, Condoleezza Rice

Book Title: No Higher Honor : a Memoir of My Years in Washington

Book Series: Historical

Item Length: 9.6 in

Original Language: English

Vintage: No

Personalize: No

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Item Height: 1.9 in

Personalized: No

Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated

Topic: Women, International Relations / General, Presidents & Heads of State, American Government / General, Political, Security (National & International), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, International Relations / Diplomacy

Item Width: 6.4 in

Signed: Yes

Ex Libris: No

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Publisher: Crown Publishers

Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults

Inscribed: No

Edition: First Edition

Publication Year: 2011

Type: Biography

Literary Movement: Contemporary

Era: 2010s