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　　Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political

scientist, and concert pianist. Her achievements run the

gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe

and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the

country in the aftermath of 9-11, to becoming only the second woman

- and the first black woman ever -- to serve as Secretary of

State.

But until she was 25 she never learned to swim.

Not because she wouldn't have loved to, but because when she was

a little girl in Birmingham, Alabama, Commissioner of Public Safety

Bull Connor decided he'd rather shut down the city's pools than

give black citizens access.

Throughout the 1950's, Birmingham's black middle class largely

succeeded in insulating their children from the most corrosive

effects of racism, providing multiple support systems to ensure the

next generation would live better than the last. But by 1963,

when Rice was applying herself to her fourth grader's lessons, the

situation had grown intolerable. Birmingham was an

environment where blacks were expected to keep their head down and

do what they were told -- or face violent consequences. That spring

two bombs exploded in Rice’s neighborhood amid a series of chilling

Klu Klux Klan attacks. Months later, four young girls lost

their lives in a particularly vicious bombing.

So how was Rice able to achieve what she ultimately did?

Her father, John, a minister and educator, instilled a love of

sports and politics. Her mother, a teacher, developed

Condoleezza’s passion for piano and exposed her to the fine

arts. From both, Rice learned the value of faith in the face

of hardship and the importance of giving back to the

community. Her parents’ fierce unwillingness to set limits

propelled her to the venerable halls of Stanford University, where

she quickly rose through the ranks to become the university’s

second-in-command. An expert in Soviet and Eastern European

Affairs, she played a leading role in U.S. policy as the Iron

Curtain fell and the Soviet Union disintegrated. Less than a

decade later, at the apex of the hotly contested 2000 presidential

election, she received the exciting news – just shortly before her

father’s death – that she would go on to the White House as the

first female National Security Advisor.

As comfortable describing lighthearted family moments as she is

recalling the poignancy of her mother’s cancer battle and the heady

challenge of going toe-to-toe with Soviet leaders, Rice holds

nothing back in this remarkably candid telling. This is the story

of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an

ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl – and a young

woman -- trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world and

of two exceptional parents, and an extended family and community,

that made all the difference.

Author's Note

ONE　Starting Early

Two　The Rays and the Rices

THREE　 Married at Last

FOUR　 "Johnny, It's a Girl!"

FIVE　"I Need a Piano!"

Six　 My Parents Were Teachers

SEVEN　Something in the Water

EIGHT　School Days

NINE　Summer Respite

TEN　 Turning Up the Heat in Birmingham

ELEVEN　I963

TWE tvr　Integration?

THIRTEEN　Tuscaloosa

FOURTEEN　Denver Again

FIFTEEN　Leaving the South Behind

SIXTEEN　Cancer Intrudes

SEVENTEEN　Starting Early (Again)

EIGHTEEN　College Years

NINETEEN　A Change of Direction

……

　　CONDOLEEZZA RICE was the 66th United States Secretary of State

and the first black woman to ever hold that office.  Prior to

that, she was the first woman to serve as National Security

Advisor.  She currently teaches at Stanford University.

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If you were twice as good as they were, "they" might not like you but "they" had to respect you. One could find space for a fulfilling and productive life. There was nothing worse than being a helpless victim of your circumstances.

Because I so wanted to emulate the older kids, my parents found it rather easy to discipline me. I can only remember being spanked once. That was when I ignored my parents' order not to climb up on a chair to get my Halloween costume from the top shelf of the closet. I almost fell, and my father had had enough. Usually, though, they only had to say something about being "disappointed" in me. I hated that phrase because I did not want to let them down. They could also say simply, "You're acting like a child." I hated that even more. Perhaps as an only child I was driven to be more like the adults with whom I spent so much time. I even refused to eat the "child's plate" at A. G. Gaston's, the only nice black restaurant in town. And when we went to the Presbyterian ministers' retreat in Tenne...

"I would rather be ignored than patronized," I said, pointing to the tendency of the Democratic Party to talk about "women, minorities, and the poor." I hated identity politics and the self-satisfied people who assumed that they were free of prejudice when, in fact, they too could not see beyond color to the individual.

President Bush called me to the Oval Office a few days before Gorbachev's arrival in Washington. "Stanford is your home," he said. "I want you to accompany Gorbachev to Palo Alto." As I sat on the South Lawn of the White House waiting with Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, to take off in the presidential helicopter, Marine One, a thought crossed my mind: I'm awfully glad I changed my major.

When I got home, I called Daddy and gave him a thorough account of the day, including the lunch on the second floor of a miserably hot Polish American restaurant. I didn't tell him that the President had mispronounced the phrase "Polish people", calling them instead the "polish people" - as in furniture wax. At that slip, Brent hd turned to me and barked, "Did you forget to capitalize the P?" I was mortified and took responsibility, though in fact the P had been capitalized. It was my first experience with the maxim that I would later pass on to NSC staffers: "It's the President's triumph and the NSC staffer's fault."

This was terrible news. In the back of my mind I had always assumed that I would get married and have kids. I wanted to find that special man because I had been inspired by the wonderful example my parents had provided through their marriage. I was not at all concerned that marriage might hold me back professionally. Again, both my parents had managed careers and family life quite well. But as I told (and still tell) my friends, you don't get married in the abstract; you have to want to marry a particular person. And frankly I'd always hoped to marry within my race. If the right man does not come along, it is better to enjoy a fulling and happy life as a single person. But in 1986, at the age of thirty-one, the prospect of not even having the option to have kids was devastating.

书籍介绍

Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9-11, to becoming only the second woman - and the first black woman ever -- to serve as Secretary of State.

But until she was 25 she never learned to swim.

Not because she wouldn't have loved to, but because when she was a little girl in Birmingham, Alabama, Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor decided he'd rather shut down the city's pools than give black citizens access.

Throughout the 1950's, Birmingham's black middle class largely succeeded in insulating their children from the most corrosive effects of racism, providing multiple support systems to ensure the next generation would live better than the last. But by 1963, when Rice was applying herself to her fourth grader's lessons, the situation had grown intolerable. Birmingham was an environment where blacks were expected to keep their head down and do what they were told -- or face violent consequences. That spring two bombs exploded in Rice’s neighborhood amid a series of chilling Klu Klux Klan attacks. Months later, four young girls lost their lives in a particularly vicious bombing.

So how was Rice able to achieve what she ultimately did?

Her father, John, a minister and educator, instilled a love of sports and politics. Her mother, a teacher, developed Condoleezza’s passion for piano and exposed her to the fine arts. From both, Rice learned the value of faith in the face of hardship and the importance of giving back to the community. Her parents’ fierce unwillingness to set limits propelled her to the venerable halls of Stanford University, where she quickly rose through the ranks to become the university’s second-in-command. An expert in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs, she played a leading role in U.S. policy as the Iron Curtain fell and the Soviet Union disintegrated. Less than a decade later, at the apex of the hotly contested 2000 presidential election, she received the exciting news – just shortly before her father’s death – that she would go on to the White House as the first female National Security Advisor.

As comfortable describing lighthearted family moments as she is recalling the poignancy of her mother’s cancer battle and the heady challenge of going toe-to-toe with Soviet leaders, Rice holds nothing back in this remarkably candid telling. This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl – and a young woman -- trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world and of two exceptional parents, and an extended family and community, that made all the difference.