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by Sue Dremann “Extraordinary, Ordinary People� by Condoleezza Rice; Crown Archtype, New York; 342 pp.; $27 One of the defining moments in former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s childhood came during a visit to Santa Claus when she was about 5 years old. Living in Birmingham, Ala., known as the most segregated big city in America in the 1950s and early 1960s, Rice almost didn’t get a seat on Santa’s lap because she is black, she wrote in her autobiography/homage to her parents, “Extraordinary, Ordinary People.� “The Santa in question had been putting the white kids on his knee and holding the black children away from him, keeping them standing,� she recalled. But her father, John W. Rice Jr., gave his daughter a firm lesson that day in values that guided the rest of her life: No matter how society
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Rice — pictured with her father, John, and mother, Angelena — receives her Ph.D. in August 1981 from the University of Denver, with a job offer in hand from Stanford University.
strives to pigeonhole you, you’re still as worthy as everyone else. “If he does that to Condoleezza,� her father told Rice’s mother, “I’m going to pull all of that stuff off him and expose him as just another cracker.� Rice did sit on Santa’s lap, but she never forgot how racially charged that moment felt, she said. Rice’s autobiography is an extraordinary tale, not only of race but also of hope, determination and parentand-child devotion. Most of all, it is the story of how
a little black girl from the Jim Crow South was taught to become arguably the most powerful woman in the country. Written in clean, direct prose, the book is a fast-paced read most of the way through. The peek into Rice’s characteristically private life through her family relationships and her childhood is fascinating and inspiring. She is the first to say that her success has much to do with her upbringing, although intelligence and her extraordinary drive played major
Extraordinary, ordinary people Condoleezza Rice’s loving memoir of her parents traces family values against the backdrop of segregation Linda Cicero/Stanford News Service
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