White Bucks and Black-Eyed Peas: Coming of Age Black in White America

Confronting the difficulties of a "minority within a minority," a successful young African American chronicles his experiences through a ghetto childhood, prep school, and Stanford University and reveals his precarious balancing act between white and African-American cultures. 35,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

White Bucks and Black-Eyed Peas: Coming Of Age Black In White America

Biographies & Memoirs

Mabry, Marcus

Community & Culture

Scribner

Twice As Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power

Perhaps no American leader is better known and less understood than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Beyond the dramatic story of her past--her ascent from segregated Alabama to the halls of power--and the controversy of her present, little is known about her as a woman, and while she has broken barriers and achieved extraordinary success, she is also one of the most polarizing figures of our time. As an African American girl growing up in the South when the civil rights movement was at its most tumultuous and inspiring, her own views on race are complex. While she has benefited from advances in civil rights legislation and evolving acceptance of blacks, hers has been a singularly individualistic rise, the product of her parents' determination to make her "special."
TWICE AS GOOD: CONDOLEEZZA RICE AND HER PATH TO POWER, is the first biography of Rice to reveal the private woman behind the public image that has become so familiar to people around the world. Bringing his superlative skills as a journalist to bear on this most intriguing of subjects, Newsweek Chief of Correspondents Marcus Mabry chronicles the fascinating story of Rice's life so far, from her childhood in Alabama and Colorado--where she loved ice skating and playing the piano---to her discovery of international affairs at the knee of Madeleine Albright's father Josef Korbel to her role in taking America to war in Iraq. What drove her to the fateful decisions that the United States and the world are now living with? How will history judge her and what awaits her after her service to George W. Bush? 
Mabry answers these questions in a deeply nuanced portrait of a driven woman of many contradictions whose power is vast-and still growing...

Modern Times

Born and raised in an all-black enclave in suburban New Jersey, Marcus Mabry suddenly found himself thrust into the white world at age 14 when he won an academic scholarship to one of the nation's most prestigious prep schools. In examining the price of black success in America, Mabry recalls what it was like being young, black, and talented, searching for his own identity, as he teetered uncertainly between two universes: the despairing, impoverished tightly knit black community of his childhood and the white world of privilege and promise that beckoned.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Who is Condoleezza Rice? Award-winning Newsweek editor Marcus Mabry explores the contradictions―personal and public―of one of the most influential, controversial, and fascinating women in the history of American politics. 
Before becoming the first female African-American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice was the first woman to be named national security advisor to the president of the United States and, before that, the first woman, first minority, and youngest person to be named provost of Stanford University. Yet for all her ceiling-shattering accomplishments, Rice remains enigmatic. Mabry's penetrating, multilayered study of Rice is the most comprehensive portrait ever reported of this powerful woman. It was an editor's choice of The New York Times' Book Review.

Leaders & Notable People

Paperback edition of the authorised biography of Condoleezza Rice that reveals the real woman behind the career. Based on extensive interviews with her former colleagues such as George Schultz, as well as her close family, this meticulously researched biography offers a compelling insight into Rice's turbulent childhood in Birmingham Alabama, lynching capital of the US, and her inexorable rise to power as the most powerful woman in the world during George Bush's Presidency.

Condoleezza Rice: The authorised biography

Business & Money

Economics

Gibson Square Books

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White Bucks and Black-Eyed Peas: Coming Of Age Black In White America

Twice As Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power

White Bucks and Black-Eyed Peas: Coming of Age Black in White America

Twice As Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power

Condoleezza Rice: The authorised biography