Condoleezza Rice No Higher Honour

About No Higher Honor. 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. Condoleezza 'Condi' Rice (/ ˌ k ɒ n d ə ˈ l iː z ə / KON-də-LEE-zə; born November 14, 1954) is an American diplomat, political scientist, civil servant, and professor who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.Rice served as the 66th United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 and as the 20th United States national security advisor from 2001 to. No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington - Kindle edition by Rice, Condoleezza. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

BOOK REVIEW by OnTheIssues.org:

Those looking for insight into Condoleezza Rice's personal history won't find it in this autobiography. It's 'A Memoir of My Years in Washington', so it starts with Bush's 2000 campaign for the White House. There's nothing about Condi's early life, nor even much about her life outside the White House.

The book does cover Condi's years as National Security Advisor (Bush's first term) and her years as Secretary of State (Bush's second term). Condi writes about everything she did in those two roles -- in other words, there's hardly anything on domestic policy either.

I complained about Tom Ridge's naivete on foreign policy matters as expressed in his book, The Test of our Times; Condi is not naive about foreign policy. I complained about Tom Ridge that I knew more about foreign countries than him; Condi knows more about foreign countries than me, or than just about anyone. Condi thrilled me by using the term 'Pashtunistan' -- the only time I've ever seen the term in print except in my own article on Pashtunistan. ('Pashtunistan' means the ethnically-defined region that spans the Pakistan-Afghan border; both countries' presidents prefer to include 'Greater Pashtunistan' in their own country, according to Condi, pp. 445-6).

What about a run for elective office? Condi has only one brief quip, regarding Sen. Barabara Boxer (D, CA) and why the Senator might have disliked Condi: 'Perhaps she bristled at speculation that I'd one day take her on for that seat. She needn't have worried.' Condi seems to be saying she won't run against Sen. Boxer -- but we read-between-the-line pundits note that Condi used the PAST tense, so maybe, just maybe, there's hope for a FUTURE run. We found little in this book to substantiate a rumor, but we'd love to start an unsubstantiated rumor, so here goes: 'Condi might run for California Senate against Barbara Boxer in 2016.'

Those interested in Condi's personal life, or her views on domestic policy, will have to wait for another book. Those interested in whether Condi plans on running for office will have to wait for another book, too -- but if she DOES run, it will have been worth the wait.

-- Jesse Gordon, jesse@OnTheIssues.org, Dec. 2011

P.S. This book was written in 2011, and, as mentioned above, the reader did not have to wait long for a book on Condi's personal history: her personal autobiography, My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me, came out in 2012.

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