The Confidante [Hardback]Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacyby Glenn KesslerThis book is OUT OF PRINT You may be able to find a copy at ABE Books Description of The ConfidanteIn his riveting portrait of the most powerful Secretary of State in recent years, Glenn Kessler paints a revealing portrait of Condoleezza Rice as a woman and as an unstoppable political force. As the first critical examination of her skills as policy-maker, politician and manager, "The Confidante" is packed with startling and previously unreported stories about Rice and her divisive role during one of the most tumultuous foreign-policy periods in U.S. history. Drawing on personal interviews with Rice, an intimacy afforded to Kessler as one of a few reporters travelling with her, Kessler goes inside secret meetings Rice held with foreign leaders and her private conversations with President Bush. He reveals not only her public and private humiliations but how her charm and grace have been successful assets in maintaining trust and repairing fractured relations overseas. Today, Condoleezza Rice is one of the most alluring, controversial, and ultimately influential decision makers in the U.S. With this important work, Kessler shows what traits could either solidify her rise to greatness or send her career hurdling to ruin.Title Information
Press and Industry Reviews"A tour de force. I have followed Rice for years, yet reading this book I feel like I only now understand her."--Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq"Kessler, in this timely and important book, identifies the principal weakness of Rice’s stewardship as the absence of any 'coherent foreign policy vision,' especially regarding the Middle East. The calamitous consequences for America of this shortcoming are likely to be felt for years to come."--Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor, 1977-1981 "Glenn Kessler is a tough, independent beat reporter of the old school. His chronicle of Condoleezza Rice's turn as Secretary of State is meticulous and fair, but it provides a devastating account of how Rice's diplomacy often rested on wish and illusion, and was finally overwhelmed by the Bush Administration's failed foreign policies."--Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 "Glenn Kessler has amassed a wealth of new material about Condoleezza Rice and the people around her. If you want to get beyond the image-makers and find out what Condoleezza Rice has actually been doing as secretary of state, this is the right book for you."--James Mann, Johns Hopkins University and author of Rise of the Vulcans: The History of the Bush War Cabinet “As foreign policy tutor, security adviser, and now as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice has stood at the center of George Bush’s foreign policy from day one. Glenn Kessler provides a fair and balanced assessment of how Rice’s actions and inactions in these first incarnations made her job of guiding foreign policy now so much more difficult. A masterful treatment that is bound to stand the test of time.”--Ivo Daalder, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy Write a review of this book Customer Reviews from AmazonAbout Glenn KesslerGLENN KESSLER is a diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post and has been recipient of numerous awards, including two shared Pulitzer Prizes. Kessler, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has reported from dozens of countries and also has covered the White House and Congress. He is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and lives in McLean, Virginia. |
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