Though the last third provides a cursory account of the academic and professional trajectory that culminates with her appointment in the Bush administration, the book, at its core, is a coming-of-age story during the final years of segregation and its aftermath. Bush will not find them in Rice's "Extraordinary, Ordinary People." The subtitle, "A Memoir of Family," describes the focus and scope of this engaging book. Readers looking for insights into Rice's thinking and actions as national security advisor and secretary of state under President George W. The episode revealed the fragility of the protective environment Rice's parents sought to create for her in the South's most segregated city: They were virtually powerless in the face of what Rice describes as the "homegrown terrorism" directed against Birmingham's black children. In the paralyzing fear of that moment, no one knew if other churches were targeted. 15, 1963, 8-year-old Condoleezza Rice was in her father's church when a loud thud echoed from the explosion that killed four young girls at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church across town in Birmingham, Ala.
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