Elisabeth Bumiller, a Washington reporter for The New York Times, was a Times White House correspondent from September 10, 2001, to 2006. She is the author of May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India and The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family. She wrote much of this book as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and as a transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her husband, Steven R. Weisman, and two children.
“Powerful . . . an intimate portrait of Condoleezza Rice that will
set the standard for all future writing about this fascinating and
complex woman.”
–Doris Kearns Goodwin
“A compelling portrait of the country’s first black female
secretary of state . . . a cautionary tale about the gap between
ambitious presidential appointees and their unwillingness to speak
truth to power.”
–The New York Times
“In this singular, fascinating, well-reported, and well-written
book, one of our finest journalists shows us heretofore unseen
facets of the Condoleezza Rice story.”
–Michael Beschloss, author of Presidential Courage
“Measured, insightful and comprehensive . . . [Elisabeth Bumiller]
brings a keen eye to Rice.”
–The New York Times Book Review
“A careful, well-documented new.”
–Los Angeles Times
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