WASHINGTON Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice thought Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a weak disappointment, and she once judged President Bush’s signature Mideast peace program unworkable ...

New Biography Recounts Rice's Rise to Power Washington Post correspondent Glenn Kessler discusses his new book, The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy. The biography ...

Elisabeth Bumiller’s new Condi Rice biography isn’t the first book-length portrait of the controversial secretary of state (two other major bios were published this year alone). But it may be ...

Just before Christmas 2002, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and President Bush were alone in the Oval Office. They had talked endlessly about Iraq, but Bush had never asked her ...

Condoleezza Rice An American Life Elisabeth Bumiller Random House: 404 pp., $27.95 Condoleezza Rice An American Life ... A careful, well-documented new biography, “Condoleezza Rice: ...

New York Times correspondent Elisabeth Bumiller has written a new biography of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "She came in with only two years of mid-level White House experience, and she ...

Condoleezza Rice became the first woman to serve as national security adviser and later the first Black woman to hold the post of secretary of state under former President George W. Bush.

Says Condoleezza Rice said, “If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe you are a victim. You will feel aggrieved and the twin brother of aggrievement is entitlement.

Here is the background on Condoleezza Rice, Stanford University professor, who has been nominated by President-elect Bush to be his national security adviser. Born: Nov. 14, 1954, in Birmingham ...

Condoleezza Rice’s memoir, “Extraordinary, Ordinary People,” ends where most readers would probably rather it began: with the 2000 election, the recount in Florida and the Supreme Court ...