Experimental Blog #45

Comments on "Extraordinary, Ordinary People" - A Memoir of Family by Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice writes that her parents were not "blue bloods." They were not members of that "caste" whose "patriarchs had been freed well before slavery ended." However, she says that her mother's family were more "patrician" than her father's family. She further writes that she apparently had 2, out of 4, white great grandfathers, one on each side of her family.
Condoleezza writes about her childhood and adolescence in Alabama and Colorado and traveling in the USA at times very emotionally, which is quite natural, of course, but, none the less, extremely well and, apparently, honestly. This book is a vital American biography and history.
Her early adult and adult years working in Washington, D.C., during the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H W Bush, and at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, both before and after this time in Washington, are written in more of the same fine quality.
This book ends at the very beginning of Condoleezza Rice's most well known work in the administration of President George W Bush and the sad coincidence of the death of her father.
Obviously, there is at least one sequal to this book yet to be written.