Condoleezza Rice Will Be At Tattered Cover Tomorrow!

"Having served under two Bush presidencies—as national security advisor and secretary of state—Rice is well known for her icy demeanor and steely disposition. This memoir presents a young woman deeply attached to her devoted parents, who encouraged her at every step of her life to overcome racism, sexism, and her own personal doubts. Her roots are deep in the South, with a family that pridefully skirted racism—never using the “colored” facilities or riding in the back of the bus. Her mother, Angelena, was a cultured teacher who taught her piano, while her father, John, was a Presbyterian minister and later a college administrator who, despite his Republican politics, strongly admired black radicals, developing a friendship with Stokely Carmichael. He declined to march with Martin Luther King in nonviolent protests and was more inclined to sit on the front porch with a loaded shotgun to ward off white night riders. The Rice family personally knew the young girls who were killed in the church bombing, one of the more violent episodes the family endured before they eventually left the South. Rice presents a frank, poignant, and loving portrait of a family that maintained its closeness through cancer, death, career ups and downs, and turbulent changes in American society." --Vanessa Bush of Booklist


Friday, October 22 at 7:00 pm at our Historic Lodo Store:

Condoleezza Rice was the sixty-sixth U.S. Secretary of State and the first black woman to hold that office. She was also the first woman to serve as National Security Advisor. She has served as provost of Stanford University and was the Soviet and East European Affairs advisor to the president of the United States during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Secretary Rice will discuss and sign her new book Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family ($27.00 Crown), her inspiring story of a life of great adversity and great achievement. Bertha Lynn, 7NEWS anchor, will moderate this event. Free numbered tickets for the booksigning line will be handed out beginning at 6:00 pm. Seating for the presentation prior to the booksigning is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only. No personalizations, posed photos, or memorabilia.

Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com