Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family Free Audiobook Download by Condoleezza Rice


In Extraordinary and Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family, Condoleezza Rice shares her story of growing up in a small South Carolina town. She tells her parents' story: of their childhoods, their families and their struggles with church and community. She introduces the reader to many different characters who have come from different backgrounds with varying ethnicities and religions. This memoir will inspire readers to understand the perspective of minority groups, immigrants, African Americans and those struggling with faith.

Extraordinary, Ordinary People is one woman's personal memoir of her life with her family and her time in Washington D.C. as the first black female Secretary of State.

Condoleezza Rice has been in the public eye for over 50 years. She began her career as a student activist and was part of the Black Panther Party before becoming Secretary of State and National Security Adviser. In this autobiographical memoir, she describes her time as a young woman and how it all changed from her college days to her life at Stanford University and the Civil Rights Movement. Rice tells of how she was always interested in science, math, and physics but never thought about becoming a politician herself. She also discusses her family background, where she talks about growing up with parents who were both professors at historically black colleges in Alabama.

In this memoir, Condoleezza Rice shares her story of how she went from being a young girl who was afraid of math and science to becoming the secretary of state. In her memoir, she tells readers about her childhood and how hard it was to be different from others. She also tells the story of her family's journey to America, where they had to choose a new name for themselves because the Civil War had caused so much destruction to their family name.

This is a memoir by Condoleezza Rice and it tells the story of her family, beginning with her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama. I was interested in this book because I am reading a lot about the civil rights movement and wanted to see what it would be like to read about someone who was a part of it.

This audiobook was narrated by Condoleezza Rice, who is a graduate of Stanford and Oxford University. She made history as the first woman to head the National Security Council under President George H. W. Bush, as well as a professor at Rutgers and Stanford. The audiobook takes listeners on a journey of her life and words about how she learned that you can be who you want to be in her memoir, Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family

Published Date 2010-10-12
Duration 8 hours 50 minutes
Author Condoleezza Rice
Narrated Condoleezza Rice
Reviews
(10 Reviews)
Abridged No
Is It Free? 30-days Free
Category Biography & Memoir
Parent Category Memoir, Law & Politics

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